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.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years. - Whitey Herzog

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. - Jack Ohman

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. - Herbert Hoover

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. - Arnold Gingrich

The man who coined the phrase Money can't buy happiness, never bought himself a good fly rod! - Reg Baird

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

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

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

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

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

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. - Harold F. Blaisdell