Favorite Fishing Quotations

[smuckey41]

I'm always telling my boy when he's got a big one on such seems to happen more and more every time we find now. " just play it just play it I'm getting the net" at the same time he's telling me "daddy daddy its a good one get the net". I thought once I got older I would pass the net man duties to my son like I had to do when u was a kid. I guess I can just quit my job and become a professional net man.........lol.....

[Lunker1]

There's only two things that smell like fish and one of them is fish.

[parker]

Be still, keep quiet, keep your bobber still, move your bobber, be quiet, what ya doing, dont spit, spit on your bait, I got a big one, he came off, why did you cause me to miss that one, it must have been 10 lbs! I done heard it all.

[sweetwater]

There's only two things that smell like fish and one of them is fish.

"Jumbo go away" by Frank Zappa. It's three things, not two.

[a. c. shiner]

A fishing buddy of mine said the last time we went fishing. We might not catch anything but we are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!!!

[BubbaBass1]

My Papaw use to tell me you aint holdin your mouth right, also the night before we would go he would say in the morning I am only hollering for you 1 time if you don't get up I will leave you here! spent many nights afraid to go to sleep, even slept on his porch one morning because he over slept!!! man I would love to have another fishing trip with him!!!!

"AMEN"

His favorite line "get the net"

BB1

[BubbaBass1]

My Papaw use to tell me you aint holdin your mouth right, also the night before we would go he would say in the morning I am only hollering for you 1 time if you don't get up I will leave you here! spent many nights afraid to go to sleep, even slept on his porch one morning because he over slept!!! man I would love to have another fishing trip with him!!!!

Another Papaw classic: Just before he makes a cast to a log with his Zebco 33 and a Rapala tied on. "watch this".

BB1

[UpaCrick]

Two more "Grandadisms":

"When in doubt, set the hook."

"Hooksets are free."

Glenn

[sweetwater]

My Dad everytime I hooked a nice fish, "Jerk the gills out of him!" followed by "reel reel reel keep the pressure on him" and finally "Sling him in boat sweetpea" I love you Dad.

[Moveon]

I find it ironic that I tell the kids the same thing that my father told me. Don't horse him in! I took my younger cousin fishing with me up at Patoka years ago. He hooked into a nice 3 or 4 lb lm bass and was trying to reel him in fast and I yelled at him, Don't Horse him in"! He lost the fish and never forgot that I said to him. He was really dejected at losing that bass.

Ironic that in todays leading Bass Tournaments that practically jerk them into the boat and you see the bass flying though the air these days. My how times have changed. And yet back in those days we used braided line too. All these young kids think that braided line is something new? Heck when I started bass fishing all the line was braided and we had not seen any monofilament line yet. CA 1958.

this is from my dad, "don't HORSE HIM-don't HORSE HIM" and now I say it to my grand kids.......miss you dad!!

Gary

[peter]

Let the fish load the rod.
-trophycats fishin.com forum


I count my wealth in hours on the water.

-Peter Maloney

[sweett4u]

you can't catch a fish ,if your bait aint in the water.