Angling Quotations

[Wordbender]

"Ooooh, I think I've caught one!" - Rosie Barham, after landing a 34lb. carp from my swim.

 

"That's funny, I'm wearing EXACTLY the same shoes, trousers, shirt, t-shirt and fleece that I wore when I broke my arm." - Me, last Friday, setting off for my first trip to my syndicate since breaking my left arm. Within a few hours - I'd broken my right arm.

 

"But NOBODY breaks arms going fishing, son!" - My mother.

 

"I knew you'd rather be fishing, mate, so I put out a rod in your honour last night. You blanked, but I caught a 28lb. common on MY rod!" - Barry Hearn, father of Terry and great mate...I think.

 

Roll on the end of physio (again) .

 

Terry

 

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[Waterman]

I believe it was the American comedian Steven Wright who once said, "There's a thin line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot".

[Chris Plumb]

A couple more for you - separated in time by a thousand generations, one from ancient Greece, one from the current edition of Waterlog...

 

Sleeping we image what awake we wish;

Dogs dream of bones, and fisherman of fish.

 

Theocritus, 3rd Century BC

 

The only people who have really blank days are those who go fishing with the sole intention of catching fish.

 

"Venator", 2002

 

Chris

[MikeConnor]

http://www.bartleby.com/100/pages/page207.html

[Chris Plumb]

Anyone know who this is attributed too...?

 

"If you want to be happy for an hour; get drunk. If you want to be happy for a day; get rich.

If you want to be happy for a week: get married.

If you want to be happy for a lifetime; go fishing"

 

Chris

[chesters1]

" you can try but there baint no fish in that puddle"

can remember the farmers name but he was wrong

[greg long]

Spiderfan:

I once read that, "Fishing can be defined as being long periods of inactivity, punctuated by short periods of intense activity".

 

An ethos I could aspire to.

 

I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me who originally penned the sentence, as I can't for the life of me remember where I heard/read it.  

I think it was from Chris Yates during the T.V. program, or was it Bob reading from B.B.

anglingireland.info

[greg long]

pikelines editor:

Back on the forum, oh no!

 

Fresh out of putting together the latest PAC Pikelines mag. Phew! hence my absence.

 

2 I can think of...

 

Fred J Taylor... On fishing in general.

 

"I'll be really glad when I've had enough of this!".

 

One other, not sure who?

 

"The float, pleasing in it's appearance, even more pleasing in it's dissapearance!".

 

Nice eh...

 

Off eeling for 4 days tomorrow, may the eel gods be kind.

 

Definitely Chris Yates on T.V.(a passion for angling)

[peter mccue]

"The float, pleasing in it's appearance, even more pleasing in it's dissapearance!".

 

Sheringham I think.

[Jim Roper]

greg long:

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I've heard that in a few pubs!!!

 

Jim Roper

 

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