what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Not a traditional quote by an Angling writer, but one that has always made me smile was overheard from a youngish bloke on a club lake several years ago.
He was there with his wife or girlfriend and it was obviously her first time fishing. He rigged up a float rod for her, demonstrated how to cast, baited up (a process which produced an "ugh!" as presumably he was using maggots or worm), the tackle was flicked out, the rod placed in the rests and they sat down to wait.
After a few minutes she said “But there’s nothing happening” To which her partner laconically replied “That’s exactly the point”.
He was there with his wife or girlfriend and it was obviously her first time fishing. He rigged up a float rod for her, demonstrated how to cast, baited up (a process which produced an "ugh!" as presumably he was using maggots or worm), the tackle was flicked out, the rod placed in the rests and they sat down to wait.
After a few minutes she said “But there’s nothing happening” To which her partner laconically replied “That’s exactly the point”.
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Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
It's not Bernard that reads the passages from books and poems though, is it?loop erimder wrote:ah yes when watching APFA Bernard Cribbins narrates it wellMark wrote:I do like the following by BB from Confessions of a Carp Fisher talking about Redmire Pool.
In the heat of noonday I have cruised in a punt upon the surface of that fathomless pool,
And looked far down among waving weed cables at broad netted backs stirring there.
In those mysterious depths. I have looked and marveled and been made to feel that no
Skill or patience on my part will ever bring such cunning monsters to the bank.
Isn't it Chris Sandford?
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Sounds like the allotment I used to have a few years ago! :hahaha:Mark wrote:I also like the one in my signature below, again by BB.
Doe's anyone know which book it's from.
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Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
I didn't think Bernard did the quotes as the voice does sound sifferent to the rest of the narrative, but we are led to believe bernard did all of it so I kind of took it as a given.Blackadder wrote:It's not Bernard that reads the passages from books and poems though, is it?loop erimder wrote:ah yes when watching APFA Bernard Cribbins narrates it wellMark wrote:I do like the following by BB from Confessions of a Carp Fisher talking about Redmire Pool.
In the heat of noonday I have cruised in a punt upon the surface of that fathomless pool,
And looked far down among waving weed cables at broad netted backs stirring there.
In those mysterious depths. I have looked and marveled and been made to feel that no
Skill or patience on my part will ever bring such cunning monsters to the bank.
Isn't it Chris Sandford?
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I think it's in the end credits of each episode. I'll have to have a look tonight...The Sweetcorn Kid wrote:I didn't think Bernard did the quotes as the voice does sound sifferent to the rest of the narrative, but we are led to believe bernard did all of it so I kind of took it as a given.Blackadder wrote:It's not Bernard that reads the passages from books and poems though, is it?loop erimder wrote:ah yes when watching APFA Bernard Cribbins narrates it wellMark wrote:I do like the following by BB from Confessions of a Carp Fisher talking about Redmire Pool.
In the heat of noonday I have cruised in a punt upon the surface of that fathomless pool,
And looked far down among waving weed cables at broad netted backs stirring there.
In those mysterious depths. I have looked and marveled and been made to feel that no
Skill or patience on my part will ever bring such cunning monsters to the bank.
Isn't it Chris Sandford?
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Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
It was Chris Sandford that read the quotes on APFA.
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The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Makes sense now...thanks chaps.
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Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Blackadder wrote:I think it's in the end credits of each episode. I'll have to have a look tonight...The Sweetcorn Kid wrote:I didn't think Bernard did the quotes as the voice does sound sifferent to the rest of the narrative, but we are led to believe bernard did all of it so I kind of took it as a given.Blackadder wrote:It's not Bernard that reads the passages from books and poems though, is it?loop erimder wrote:ah yes when watching APFA Bernard Cribbins narrates it wellMark wrote:I do like the following by BB from Confessions of a Carp Fisher talking about Redmire Pool.
In the heat of noonday I have cruised in a punt upon the surface of that fathomless pool,
And looked far down among waving weed cables at broad netted backs stirring there.
In those mysterious depths. I have looked and marveled and been made to feel that no
Skill or patience on my part will ever bring such cunning monsters to the bank.
Isn't it Chris Sandford?
Oh Still its all lovely though
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish
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It sure is loop. :thumb:
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The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
'Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job'. (Paul Schullery)
'The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad'. (A K Best)
'There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process'. (Paul O'Neil)
'Whoever said "a bad days fishing is always better than a good day at work" never had their boat sink'. (anon)
'If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.' (Doug Larson)
'Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip'. (Gierach)
'They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.' (Gierach)
'The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad'. (A K Best)
'There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process'. (Paul O'Neil)
'Whoever said "a bad days fishing is always better than a good day at work" never had their boat sink'. (anon)
'If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.' (Doug Larson)
'Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip'. (Gierach)
'They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.' (Gierach)