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Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:26 pm
by Trevor
Vole wrote:"Pleasing in appearance, and even more so in disappearance", wasn't it? (Sheringham, on a favourite float).
Something like that, as mis-quoted in my signature below
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:03 pm
by RBTraditional
My old man on losing a big salmon years back on the Spey having played it for 55 minutes....."Well if you want it that much....bloody have it!!!"....the rod was then launched into the river....so funny at the time and still brings a smile when mentioned over a pint.
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:08 pm
by Beresford
I don't have the book to hand and perhaps surprising that it's not Yates but Walker. The one that goes something like:
We began our long vigil, lost in a quiet world of green, grey and gold.
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:00 pm
by Weyfarer
On September 12th, 1952, Peter Thomas and I again went to Redmire.
The hairs on the back of my neck tingle whenever I read that sentence in No Need to Lie.
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:29 pm
by Mark
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.
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:31 pm
by Mark
I also like the one in my signature below, again by BB.
Doe's anyone know which book it's from.
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:32 pm
by Loop Erimder
Mark 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.
ah yes when watching APFA Bernard Cribbins narrates it well
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:32 pm
by Loop Erimder
Mark wrote:I also like the one in my signature below, again by BB.
Doe's anyone know which book it's from.
Be Quiet and Go a Angling?
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:48 am
by The Sweetcorn Kid
Beresford wrote:I don't have the book to hand and perhaps surprising that it's not Yates but Walker. The one that goes something like:
We began our long vigil, lost in a quiet world of green, grey and gold.
Superb,one of my favorites also....
"Our long vigil had begun, it continued until daybreak, and after.
The sun rose deep orange; its beams making the lake steam, nothing moved.
I was lost in a quiet world of grey, green and gold".
Re: what are your favourite fishing quotes?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:35 am
by JohnClyde
Study to be quiet