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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

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

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.