You must lose a fly to catch a...

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

~George Edward Herbert~

We have here other fish to fry...

We have here other fish to fry.

~Francois Rabelais~

There are as good fish in the ...

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

~English proverb~

She is neither fish, nor flesh...

She is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

~John Heywood~

Master, I marvel how the fishe...

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

~Pericles~

God never did make a more calm...

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

~Izaak Walton~

As lacking in privacy as a gol...

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

~Anonymous~

Angling may be said to be so l...

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

~Izaak Walton~

Angling is an innocent cruelty...

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

~George Parker~

A fishing-rod was a stick with...

A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

~Samuel Johnson~