
The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't.
A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at the office.
Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men—for all men are equal before fish.