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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

A. Best

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Alex Faickney Osborn

The great fish eat the small.

Alexander Barclay

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.

Andre Naffis-Sahely

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.

Anthony Hopkins

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

Arnold Gingrich

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

Arnold Gingrich

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

Arnold Gingrich

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

Arnold Gingrich

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

Arnold Gingrich

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Arnold Gingrich

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Arnold Gingrich

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.