In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
Fishing Quotes (247 Quotes)
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.
If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
As far as dealing with the critics, Im like Antwone Fisher. Im still here, Im still standing and Im still going to play. Therefore, Im going to do everything I have to do to get better -- in the weight room, on the field and in the classroom studying the books.
As a community bank we need to offer our customers a level of service that the large chain banks just can't seem to provide. That means we staff all of our offices with local lenders who have loan approval authority for faster service. We place a high importance on the little things like returning phone calls promptly and having documents ready on time. We put a lot of effort into teaching our employees the profession of banking so that they can properly answer your questions. We also have a great deal of respect for the traditional coastal businesses like fishing, logging and tourism and look for ways to help make them successful.
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
They're the Wal-Mart of the . . . fishing business.
It's great to see something happening finally. The local news stations try to hype every little sprinkle into some catastrophic storm. That has hurt us, but with this kind of fishing, not even the local news scare can stop fishermen from coming out.
Shark fishing is not like tuna fishing. Your chances of catching one are good.
It didn't affect me, though. I yanked him out of the water, got him back on the boat and went right on fishing.
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and maybe go hunting or fishing.
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
Fishing is awesome. It has pulled off all that water and has concentrated the fish in a smaller amount of water. That is common.
His sister dropped him off (Tuesday) in the area, and he told her he was going fishing. He never came home (Tuesday) night.
Fishing is still pretty decent down there. The last couple days it's been like a third to a half a fish per boat average. On some days it's up to a fish per boat average.
I'm absolutely crazy about fly fishing.
Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B. C.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
There are six things that 'keep us going.' First, the instinct to live, which we apparently have no part in making or deciding about. Second, group consciousness and the desire that we have to win the approbation of our fellows within the group. Third, the various interests that we may find in life, such as religion or art or some such other branch of esthetics. Fourth, in our climate the habit of work. Fifth, the sheer joy of physical life that we find in hours of well-earned recreation after hard work games, fishing, tramping the hills, a good book before an open fire. Sixth, and most important, the general feeling that we have that there is some abstract goodness or rightness in the world with which we may cooperate in making the world a fine place for a splendid race of men, women and children to live in.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Laws We know what they are, and what they are worth They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.
It's still something we feel, as a staff, is viable. That's especially so if the money it raises gets plowed right back into supporting youth programs that get kids fishing.
When you keep a child hunting and fishing, you keep them out of the courts. You keep them out of trouble.
It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.
Wonderful, quite idyllic, actually. It's very green, beautiful. Lots of golf courses, which was great for me. Lots of fishing areas, but lots of industrial areas as well, which weren't so nice.
He said he wanted to go fishing, and I'm gonna take him trout fishing. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take him to the mountains.
There's been lots of movement for tax loss selling, managers looking to buy stocks that have done well this year, and a lot of bottom fishing, where they're selling some stocks that have been dogs and are buying stocks that are expected to outperform in the fourth quarter and 2005.
OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
We are going to try to move forward, but I will tell you if Michael Kane's conduct and his demands to ask any question in what appears to be an effort to do nothing more than that of a fishing expedition try to find something to say against this family--- if that what happens tomorrow morning it will be a short day,
That's not including any leisure activities such as golf, fishing or kayaking.
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Fishing can take you to some of our most beautiful places and give you privileged close-ups of our rarest and most interesting wildlife. Its also a great introduction to the environment and wildlife for inner city people.
I think hunting is a harder sport to get into than fishing. Usually it requires role models.
Every year, regardless of whether the timber industry is struggling or the fishing industry is struggling, one stable factor has always been this game. Economy-wise, we've been through more than our share of tough stretches, but this has always been something for the towns to rally around when times haven't been good.
We get tons of letters about all the things the girls do that day. It can be anything from going up with an aerial photographer to take pictures of Walt Disney World, to going out on a fishing boat, or designing web sites.
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
Now we just get by there's no future in fishing. There's not going to be a market left.
I was born and raised here, so I'm a little biased, but with each passing year, I have become more and more thankful that I live in Nevada. You don't see hurricanes or anything like that, other than an occasional record snowfall or a drought, and we're always in a state of drought here. The people of Nevada have kind of an individual spirit about them, and I fit into that, you have a lot of wide open spaces, and there's a lot of good fishing.
We had a fair weekend in the Useless BayDouble Bluff area. There was a lot of traffic up there. Everyone was obviously having trouble where they had been fishing. Saturday was good. Saturday was scratch fishing.
I have loyalty to my seniors, but I dream about (ex-Michigan coach) Steve Fisher. Really, I'm not worried about this year. We have the best sophomore class in California. It's the next two years that concern me.
I was relaxed the whole time. I'm never nervous when I'm tournament fishing. To me it's fun and relaxing. I didn't get a little nervous (Sunday) until I got up on the stage with the other five finalists.
People when they migrate rarely do it in a vacuum. There is some connective tissue ... here there were the familial roots, plus the opportunity for fishing.
We just didn't do a good job against their pressure, and that was my fault. I think it confused my kids, and that was the difference in the game. We concentrated on Fisher, and we actually did OK in the half-court set. But when it got to be an up-tempo game with all the turnovers, he was able to do some freelancing.
He asked me how many high school games I had coached. I told him it was around 780, and he said, 'I don't know if I could even watch 780 high school games.' He asked me, 'How do you keep your wits about you' and I told him I do a lot of fishing.