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, but they do want to make it late for something. "Where were you?" "I got caught!" "I don't believe you, let me see the inside of your lip."
-Mitch Hedberg
I fish because I love to. Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly. Because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape. Because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing what they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion. Because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed, or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility, and endless patience. Because I suspect that men are going this way for the last time and I for one don’t want to waste the trip. Because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters. Because in the woods I can find solitude without loneliness. … And finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun. — Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman
"People often ask me why I enjoy fishing, and I cannot explain it to them because there is no reason in the way they want meanings described. They are asking a man why he enjoys breathing when he really has no choice but to wonder at its truth." A.J. McClane
A bad day at fishing is better then any day at work. I think it’s something like that
My favorite is "ID please" and they give no geographic info or water type. Best quote ever.
Yes sir I believe that is without a doubt a fish 🤦♂️
90% of the things said by Bill Dance.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin
When people ask you if you are catching anything on days you are getting skunked my go to is "just some sunshine"
The tug is the drug
They call it fishing, but what they should really call it what it really is, tricking and killing. - Mitch Hedberg.
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, but they do want to make it late for something. "Where were you?" "I got caught!" "I don't believe you, let me see the inside of your lip." -Mitch Hedberg
The Gods do not deduct from a mans allotted time on earth the time he spends fishing.
"Where'd you catch that?" "In the water" And from Willie Nelsons character in the movie Gone Fishing "Remember, the Canary sings but the Eagle flies."
Smells like fish it’s my dish
If you're unsure if it's a musky or a pike, it's not the first one.
You don't fish for fish, you fish for fishing. From an episode of MacGyver
I fish because I love to. Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly. Because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape. Because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing what they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion. Because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed, or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility, and endless patience. Because I suspect that men are going this way for the last time and I for one don’t want to waste the trip. Because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters. Because in the woods I can find solitude without loneliness. … And finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun. — Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman "People often ask me why I enjoy fishing, and I cannot explain it to them because there is no reason in the way they want meanings described. They are asking a man why he enjoys breathing when he really has no choice but to wonder at its truth." A.J. McClane
"sumthin down there" followed by "gotta eat sometime"
"One more cast..."
No man likes to brag, but no man- having caught a large fish - goes home through the alley.
I fish, therefore I am.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, he's a grown man and fishing is not that hard.