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Fishing Quotations that Make You Go Hmmm

The old saying is fishing is easy, but actually catching fish is very hard. Fishing is one of the few forms of recreation other than golf that leads to a mind bending number of funny and thoughtful quotes. Here are a choice few to make you think and laugh.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. - John Steinbeck

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. - Dave Barry

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able. - Sparse Grey Hackle

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. - Charles Waterman

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. - Ed Zern

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy. - Jimmy Carter

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. - Roderick Haig-Brown

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.

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. - John Steinbeck

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air. - Theodore Gordon

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. - Robert Altman

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman. - Herbert Hoover

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson

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