Fishing Proverbs


Teach a man to fish, and you have a job for a day. Give a man a fish, and you have a job for life.


Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll come back next year asking for a grant for a fishing boat.


Give a man a fish and he'll eat. Give a man a life and he'll go fishing.


Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Teach him how to create an artificial shortage of fish and he eats steak for a lifetime.


Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you'll never see him on the weekends.


A bad day fishing is better than a good day working.


Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day."


Love, Life, Leather, and Lures...


Catch and release: The practice of tossing your abundant catch overboard when you notice the game warden approaching


---The Fisherman's Prayer---
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day.
And when it comes to my last cast
I then most humbly pray.
When in the Lord's safe landing net
I'm peacefully asleep.
That in his mercy I be judged
As big enough to keep---