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My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when I was not married.
I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.
If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and sell bait.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.
I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
When I was doing the breakfast show, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go fishing before doing the show.
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
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.
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
I'd be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I've done horse jumping... so clearly I'm not very picky.
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.
What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.
Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.
. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.