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FUNNY FISHING QUOTE
I never understood why my father liked to fish. As a kid, it struck me as a pretty boring hobby. Riding bikes and even reading were a lot more fun. But he was so proud one year when he won the shark fishing contest in Moss Landing, California. He even won a new boat and motor as first prize. That was certainly an anomaly. Fishermen don't fish for prizes. Most of them are pretty serious about what they do, which is why it's so easy to find a funny fishing quote. From all the funny fishing quotes of all time, here are a few from Carolyn that tickled me. *** May the holes in your net be no larger
than the fish in it. This funny fisherman's prayer is known throughout the English speaking world:
The gods do not deduct from man's
allotted span the hours spent in fishing. It has always been my private
conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and
loses has it coming. Fly-fishing is the most fun you can
have standing up. Many
men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish
they are after. Nothing
makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. 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. The two best times to fish is when it's
rainin' and when it ain't. 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. The fishing was good; it was the
catching that was bad. To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I
regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. 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. I once gave up fishing, It was the most
terrifying weekend of my life. Men and fish are alike. They both get
into trouble when they open their mouths. There is no greater fan of fly fishing
than the worm. I am
not against golf, since I cannot suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy
from discovering trout. 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. There are only two
occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents.
Those are prayer and fishing. I don't want to sit at the head table
anymore. I want to go fishing. And this is my favorite funny fishing quote: There's a fine line between fishing and
standing on the shore like an idiot.
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