Funny Fishing Quotes..

[Deitz Dittrich]

Ok.. whats some funny things either you or your buddies have said in a boat? Remember to keep it somewhat clean.. 8-)

One of my faves is..

"If you think its just nice to be out in a boat.... You dont know how to fish!"

another one.. from me to my father..

"Hey, you going to set the hook?"

"Why?"

"Because Sluggos dont move sideways on their own."

[Todd S.]

Long time viewer, first time poster. Couldn't think of a better thread to cut my teeth on:

"Hook set's are free, set the hook already!"

[Nick Kuhn]

Brother: "There's one in that tree." *Casts straight into the lower branches*

Me: "I don't know of any fish the literally lives IN a tree. You can trolling motor yourself up there to retrieve it."

[pikestabber]

When I asked a friend what he was fishing for, he said:

"Anything that swims and breathes water."

[Ray Esboldt]

"I hate Martian ***"

[RiverFish]

My dad backtrolling lindy rigs to me in the front seat: "You might want to plug your nose for the next 30 seconds".

[Meat-Run]

When fishing with my buddies and you happen to cast into the trees or brush we say we're "bird fishing".

When you loose a fish we like to say there's a "sucker on" the end of the line but it's not the fish.

mr

[RK]

Hiya -

"Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point." - Thomas McGuane

"The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." --John Gierach

"Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife" John Voelker

"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home." Roderick Haig-Brown

Actually almost anything from Thomas McGuane would qualify. After the late Roderick Haig-Brown, I think McGuane is the best fishing writer there is...

If you want to hear some doozies - guide for a while. I think every guide can tell you some zingers that come out of clients' mouths... Like:

"I had a bite." (This, after a 25 pound muskie hits at the boat and cartwheels at eye level, sending the bucktail flying into the boat and embedding it in the deck carpeting.)

Or the bass client who takes out his wood-handled solid glass surf rod, 6000-size reel with 20 lb mono and 15" steel leader, puts a 3/0 treble hook on the leader, impales a plastic worm on each barb, and then says - with an utterly straight face "bet you get some dummy clients sometimes huh?"

Or: "I fell in!" (John Gillespe from Wisconsin W & W after stepping off the dock into 10' of water...)

[ANYFISH2]

while fishing Rainy River this spring my good buddy yells to his cold hands, while trying to tie on a jig, "I hate you, retard fingers".

[NoWiser]

"Hey, did you guys notice there is a tornado behind us?" My buddy, in about the same calm tone of voice one would use if pointing out a bald eagle sitting on shore. We turn around and sure enough there is a waterspout sucking up the lake water over Winnie.

"You wouldn't believe how good this new knife sharpener I just got works" - 30 seconds later - "Uh oh, Jim"

-Last words said by my dad before driving him to the E.R. for stitches while he was modifying the bungees on his boat cover.

[olski]

One that made me chuckle yesterday.

My buddy casts a frog up on the bank the just pulls it into the water looks over and in a totally serious voice says "We are fallowing the frog migration."

Maybe you had to be there.

[olski]

Just thought of another one that made me laugh just thinking about it.

Fishing a tournament about 3 weeks ago with a guy who is converting from the walleye side of things.

To make a long story short I caught a fish off a bed after having to work at it a little bit.

My buddy is all fired up after seeing that I had to MAKE this fish bite. I look at him and say "so do you guys not fish beds up where you are?" He then turns to me and says "Only when they are spawning.............."

[Deitz Dittrich]

LMAO Fantastic everyone.. Keep them coming..

Laughing hard at Rob Kimm.. I took a guy out bass fishing once on forest lake. He was pretty new to fishing, so I gave him a spinnerbait. He is reeling in and says.. "Ohh thought I had a bite."... a few seconds go by,"Ohhh , thought I had a bite again.".. I look into the water and there is about a 20lb muskie just chomping on this spinnerbait.. I tell him to set the hook.. the guy is sitting down.. the fish bolts under the boat and jumps on the far side of the boat spits the lure which hits him in the back. His eyes were about the size of a dinner plate. "What the He ll was that?

I asked him.. "Well, have you ever caught a muskie before?"... "No"... "well you still havnt."

[tunrevir]

Deitz that reminds me of a story I have. I took my brother-in-law out wader fishing for smallies on the Flambeau. He fishes about once every 2-3 years and wasn't reall adept at casting a spinning rig. We had been fishing for about an hour and he still hadn't landed a fish. Have to be a little precise to casting cover to get the fish to hit so I was feeling bad for him after being in the trees and woods a dozen times and not hooking a fish. I took him to a shallow riffle with a distinct weedline out in the middle of the river and told him to cast to the edge and just reel back. He tosses his spinnerbait 4 feet into the weeds and says,"I think I got one" I can see he hung in the grass but I told him give it a pull, I think your in the weeds. He pulls back, the spinnerbait skids across the top of the weeds with a 8" grass skirt trailer when all of a sudden a muskie hammers it. I tell him to set the hook. The muskie rips upriver, launches out of the water does a cartwheeling head shaking halfgainer and the bait comes flying back at us and plunks at his feet. He has a look of utter astonishment on his face, mouth hanging open and turns to me and says, "Are there more fish in here like that?" I said, "Yes, that was around a 20# muskie." He looks at me real serious like and says, "I don't know if I want to do this anymore." I got a good chuckle out of that. Gotta love wader fishing

Tunrevir~

[fishdale]

Fishing with my dad and he puts down his rod to take a leak. I notice that he is getting a bite so I set the hook on a nice mid 20 eye. I fight the fish and he lands it and says. That looks like my jig. I said it is, nice fish you caught. That was the biggest fish we caught that day.

me - Do you have a fish.

Wife - no weeds, no fish, weeds I think, no maybe a fish, I don't know how do you tell the difference.

Just then I look down and see a nice Walleye on her hook.

[John478]

If theyed been biting I would have caught my limit

[JohnMickish]

"Are you here to fish or to catch fish, cuz the two are not the same". That came from Pete Harsh last year at the FLW Redwing event. I still get a chuckle every time I think of it.

[Bobby Bass]

A clip from a Bobby Bass fishing video on Lake Iwanttobethere with a Quote

[ShoreGuy1984]

“We carry lures as tools, like a mechanic carries different-size wrenches”, Micheal Iaconelli

[PerchJerker]

All fisherman are liars except you and me ---- and I'm not that sure about you.

[carpmanjake]

"there is a fine line between fishing, and standing on the shore like an i diot"

[carpmanjake]

my all time fav

"Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths."