Quotes about fisherman (16 Quotes)




    In my book, he's the best of all time. I remember thinking when he started that he would become a well-known fisherman because he was so consistent. Today, if you graded all the fishermen, he's still number one. From the time he started until today, he's been probably the most versatile fishermen no matter where we go - clear water, deep water, shallow water, mud holes, rivers. He's the most consistent. He's in the top 10 more than anyone I know of. In my book, he's the best.

    Today there are fewer interactions between the fishing community and population as a whole, partly because there are fewer fisherman. But we've also changed. We're not truly rural anymore, in the sense of the occupations you now find here. We tend to be a lot of urban people living in small towns.

    I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.



    You'd better be a tough fisherman. A lot of times it seems like the worse the weather, the better the fishing. If you get a calm night it can be real slow. But if a big wind kicks up that same night, it can be wild.



    Mere bald fabrication is useless the veriest tyro fisherman can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

    Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing but this is a mistake.


    In Europe, the word peasant was a term of contempt used by the nobility, but the Chinese scholars used to fancy themselves rustics. Agriculture was viewed as a noble occupation buying and selling, by contrast were considered nonproductive. One of the founders of the Chinese civilization was said to have been the venerable She Nung, the 'Divine Farmer.' A scholar often affected to be nothing more than an 'old farmer' or a 'simple fisherman' and referred to his elegant villa as 'my thatched hut.' This Rosseau-like feeling for the country life is an important undercurrent in the scholarly tradition.

    Some people want to call me the snowball's-chance-in-hell candidate, ... I tell people that as a former Marine and a former fisherman in Alaska, I've done both hell and snowballs.

    I was lucky. In 1997, I walked into a sporting goods store to buy some lures and saw an ad that someone was looking for someone to manage a fishing lodge. I was hired and the man who was my boss was a former professional fisherman. That gave me a 9-to-5 income but also gave me time off work to fish events.

    The idea is to have a office where sales people, fisherman, contractors, business people, and others on the go can stop to lease space for storage but also get their paper mail, use the computer, be online with their laptop, send or receive a fax, or otherwise conduct business. In researching the project, I wanted a first class facility, state of the art, that provides not only storage, but customer service and a business friendly environment.



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