Your favourite fishing quote/piece of advice

ardinn

I tend to live by

"99% of the fish are in 1% of the water"

referring to learning to read rivers, lakes and seas for probable locations of fish. it really is the best advice / slogan ive ever gotten in relation to fishing and I always repeat it to myself when things get tough!

Others of note!

Tim Palmer

"Dead fish indicate that trouble for people is not far behind."

Thomas McGuane

"In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I’m going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water!"

blackpearl

Spent fishing on sheelin after dark ,[WHEN MOST OF THE BOATS HAVE CLEARED OFF].

viper123

Never leave fish to catch fish.

.red.

"You should have been here yesterday"

SeaFields

The fish don't read the same books you do.

OwlEye

“Somebody behind you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”

Ernest Hemingway

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Good things come to those who wade.

It's called fishing, not catching.

A bad day fishing is better than a good day in the office.

Old fishermen never die, they only smell that way.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Watching a guy cast back and forwards over a dozen times per cast, while on the river this morning, I was reminded of something my late uncle used to say to me back in the 50s....you won't catch fish if the fly's not in the water.

Fiskar

Fish won't be caught if the hook is not in the water

Fiskar

Best times for fishing, an hour before and after high tide. Always works for me at Clogher head

Jobs OXO

We're gonna need a bigger boat

Fiskar

Jobs OXO wrote: »

We're gonna need a bigger boat

Roy Scheider - Jaws 1975, could watch that scene over and over

Fiskar

Where there's a seal no fish will be caught

Fiskar

Just one more cast

FMG

When you think its time to go tis often time to stay.

blackpearl

Last cast then were going ,if i had a euro for every time i said that ,problem is a shur ill have one more.