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YakAttack
08-18-2006, 05:10 PM
Anyone know of any good fishing quotes? I dug these up a few weeks ago when I was jonesing for my Hatteras trip and couldn't think of anyting else:




Marriage is like deep-sea fishing. You never know what you've got until you get it in the boat.
-- Dick Bothwell



Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Chinese Proverb



Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
-- Benjamin Franklin



Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
-- Lao-Tzu



I really fished mainly because I wanted to be alone on the middle of a lake.
-- Susan A. Toth



If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
-- Tom Brokaw



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



Man can learn a lot from fishing -- when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
-- Orlando A. Battista



Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
-- Henry David Thoreau



Patience is what you require when the fish are not hungry.
-- Unknown



There ain't but one time to go fishin', and that's whenever you can.
-- Diron Talbert



The fish and I were both stunned to find ourselves connected by a line.
-- William Humphrey

YakAttack
08-18-2006, 05:11 PM
Oh, and my favorite:

Give a man a fish and he'll have dinner for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll be late for dinner every day.

-- Dan Newman

al bundy
08-19-2006, 12:04 AM
work is for people
that don,t FISH :rolleyes:

a boat is a hole in the water you through MONEY IN!!:mad:

a wife and a steady job have distored many a good FISHERMAN!!::cool:

bunker it ant just for BREAKFEST ANY MORE!!:--|

surf fisherman have LONGER RODS:D :D

if there bitting i will COME!!:p



come on guys i can,t do it all myself:eek:

1BadF350
08-19-2006, 07:49 AM
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." -Chief Martin Brody

Shooter
08-19-2006, 10:23 PM
My wife said she would leave me if I went fishing again,,, I do miss her,,,,,,,,, she took the keys to the boat. :(

And my own

'We are only fishermen, we wade out into the water, we don't walk on top of it"
--Shooter

al bundy
08-19-2006, 10:38 PM
there all big (BASS) till they hit the (BEACH !!!!:D

Tare
08-21-2006, 11:21 PM
Fisherman are born honest...but they get over it.

sand flea
08-22-2006, 09:28 PM
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

--Steven Wright

fish bucket
08-22-2006, 10:27 PM
a fish caught from the beach is worth 10 caught from a boat.


my goal is to catch a fish so big that when talking about it,i won't have to lie!