These may be 'oldies', but they're still goodies.

A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work. - Author Unknown.

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. - Author Unknown

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. - Babylonian Proverb

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. - A.K. Best

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. - Beatrice Cook

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. - Paul Schullery

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I could afford to hunt and fish. - Sam Snead

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. - Patrick F. McManus

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. - Zane Grey