FUNNY FISHING QUOTE 

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May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing

This funny fisherman's prayer is known throughout the English speaking world:

I pray that I may live to fish
Until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray
When in the Lord's great landing net
And peacefully asleep
That in his mercy I be judge
Good enough to keep.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb

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

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

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Anon.

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.
Paul O'Neil

The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't.
Patrick F. McManua

My wife said I have so many fly rods and reels that I cannot possibly use them all.  My reply was that I had rods and reels to fish, rods and reels to tinker with and then my fine crafted rods and reels to "fondle and admire, while dreaming of trout fishing during the cold winter months.  You can imagine what kind of look she gave me.
Jimmy D. Moore

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A.K. Best

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
Robert Traver

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

I once gave up fishing, It was the most terrifying weekend of my life.
Anon.

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

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
Patrick McManus - Never Sniff a Gift Fish

I am not against golf, since I cannot suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout.
Paul O'Neil

Couldn't pass up this funny fishing quote from Mark Twain:

Returning home after a weekend in the Maine woods, Mark Twain was lounging in the smoking car of the train to Boston.  He could not resist the temptation to boast to the rustic-looking New Englander seated beside him an bout the twelve big fish he had caught.

"the season is closed for fishing now" Mark Twain confided, "but between you and me, my friend, out there in the baggage care I've got two hundred pounds of the best rock bass that you ever laid eyes on."

"Waal," drawled the New Englander, "that's interesting, but do you know who I am?  I'm the state game warden."

Mark Twain puffed on his cigar. "That's interesting'," he said. "But do you know who I am?  I'm the damnedest liar in the United States."

Robert Redford's wonderful movie "A River Runs Through It" tells the tale of a minister and his two sons, all three of whom are avid fishermen.  The funny fishing quote from this tale is more human than fishy, and very insightful:

Norman Maclean (the older son) "He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."  

New Yorker Magazine isn't known for its fish stories, so this funny fishing quote caught me off guard:  

Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts.

Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all.

This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water."

Several U.S. Presidents have favored us with a funny fishing quote.  Here are a few of them:

Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
Herbert Hoover

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover

I don't want to sit at the head table anymore. I want to go fishing.
George Bush

And this is my favorite funny fishing quote:

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

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