"The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled."
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"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
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"I'm going to gut you like a fish."
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"Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish."
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"Fish recognize a bad leader."
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"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."
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"'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."
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"I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen."
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"In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone."
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"Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered."
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"I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self"
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"He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation."
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"Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps."
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"In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere."
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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
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"When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then."
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"(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement"
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"It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day."
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"English literature is a flying fish."
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"They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!"
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