what are your favourite fishing quotes?

[Mark]

Do you happen to have any teachers with the surname Bates? :hahaha:

I should fetch your coat Luke if I were you. :chuckle:

[The Sweetcorn Kid]

Do you happen to have any teachers with the surname Bates? :hahaha:

Forty lashes for you my boy!!!

[Snape]

Do you happen to have any teachers with the surname Bates? :hahaha:

Forty lashes for you my boy!!!

With a MKIV Avon tip!

[The Sweetcorn Kid]

I was thinking along the lines of a floppy twig.......don't want to hurt him now do we!

[Snape]

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

[Vole]

Blame Walton.
Berners kept everything brief and simple, Walton loved complications, secret recipes, arcane ingredients and everything short of witchcraft - he found the human end of the system at least as fascinating as the piscine.

Innovation, including false starts and ingenious solutions to non-existent problems, is a major part of Angling's rich tradition. We are in the fortunate position of being able to be eclectic about it, taking the bits we fancy on the day, without anyone telling us we've got it all wrong (unless they've taken the precaution of buying us a pint first, in which case it's filed under "civilised and entertaining debate").

Civilised and entertaining debate - hm - pretty much what Walton was all about; a book to read, preferably in the company of anglers, when it was to dark or foul to be out fishing. To Educate, Inform and Entertain, or some such.
For "Blame" Walton, read "Bless".

[Richard C]

Hmm? Popped chick peas. Sounds worth trying....

Had success with sugarpuffs so don't see any reason why not! Its the honey that they love. Shaped to hide a size 14 perfectly

[Richard C]

"The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them." John Gierach "Fly Fishing the High Country"

[Snape]

Hmm? Popped chick peas. Sounds worth trying....

Had success with sugarpuffs so don't see any reason why not! Its the honey that they love. Shaped to hide a size 14 perfectly

Americans use them a lot at the centre of their pack baits. http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Carp-Fishin ... baits.html

[Snape]

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

"There may be reds under the bed"
J.Edgar Hoover.
He didn't mean maggots...sorry gentles, I don't think.
"I eat spilled maggots"
Henry Hoover.
"The great smell of Brut"
Henry,

:hahaha: You're a bit sharp for gone midnight DrBleep !