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- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
- High-End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
- Dolphin
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.
- Fostering
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably fishing is my first passion.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only make movies to finance my fishing.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best largemouth bass fishing I've ever encountered was at Lake Huites, a vast impoundment on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre Occidentals in Sinaloa, Mexico.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trout fishing in the lochs of Scotland, your catch may end up like this: batter-crusted with that ubiquitous Scottish staple, oats; and served beside a generous mound of stovies, Scottish slang for stove-roasted potatoes.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a solid day of fishing, I'm craving something hearty. That's where a jug of buttermilk comes in. Poaching fish in buttermilk yields the luscious texture and pure flavor, but with a more substantial richness and a poaching liquid you'll want to lap up with a spoon.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.
- Bounty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our lands and waters share incredible bounty and beauty. Trekking across forests and mountains, exploring beaches in search of shellfish, and fishing from clear waters are all part of our regional way of life and economy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020