True, so why doesn't the same thing apply to fishing? I mean if I sit bobbing up and down all day trying to catch a fish and don't, I have totally wasted my time.

Nope JusP. Same thing. After catching a few, I spent 4 fishless hours standing in a trout stream last PM. Watched the bugs, occasional rising trout, an otter catch a fish and a stork stalking the shallows. Spent all day today adjusting my casting with longer range rods plus tying and sorting flies and am heading out again later this PM.

It was a great day.

RickR

Not true JustPassin. I have cleared many cobwebs and settled many arguments before they happen watching that bobber dance, or not. Nybubba

ANY day spent in the woods or on the water, whether successful or not, will beat any day at work.

Right on, Bluesman. I always feel closer to God when I am outdoors and take the time to slowdown, look around, and see how things out there work.

About the quotes, if I may add; 'When I go there will be stuff here no one knows what it is.' StikBow

'But we in it shall be rememberèd— We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.' Henry V via Shakespeare.

'I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can.' William Wallace at Falkirk.

The best part is, days spent afield fishing or hunting don't count against your total allotted time here on earth. It's in the Bible!

I've never had an unsuccessful hunt.

If the arrow don't fly he aint gona die.

If we have an unsuccessful hunt its all in our set up!

I say I didn't have any shooting.LOL

The Cat

In the Bible just like that exactly? Yeah right! False doctrine!

If it takes you being in the bush to actually feel closer to God whats that really say for us?

Certainly not that we are spiritual. And you really think that comes from God? I certainly don't. Know the truth and it will set you free.

The enemy can sure use a lot of things to trick us all. Beware and be wise and be always be studying like a Bierean to show yourself approved.

Just some words to the wise.

Nature never disappoints those eager for it's beauty.

Amen, Ryman Cat! "So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God".

"It aint brag'n if you can do it"

John Shultz

We are surely brothers, Broke, my Mom said that all the time.

"To ride,Shoot straight and always speak the truth"

Col Jeff Cooper

It's only an unsuccessful hunt if you don't go.....ME!

"who ever ain't here, speak up".

Dad always quoted Yogi Berra with, "if you see a fork in the road, take it". While on a bicycle ride one day I found a fork in the road so I stopped and picked it up. Gave to dad the next time I saw him and he replied, you never minded me before. It was a good laugh.

"I understand all of RymanCat's posts, and they all make perfect sense" - said nobody ever. Lol

"Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself" Bo Diddley

I got eaten alive with black flies on a hunt in maine one time. would much rather had been working.Much better to be the hunter than the hunted i learned that saying from me after that hunt.

"DONT SHOOT YOUR BROTHER WITH THAT"!!!!

My Mom 1980 back yard of my parents house

"You'll shoot you eye out" - Ralphie's Mom, and the department store Santa

Some words of wisdom her....some not!

The reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do more.

"What we've got here, is failure to communicate" - "Captain" in Cool Hand Luke

Zen priest Takuan: "Keeping the mind tranquil as it moves in the myriad directions in the midst of uproar and commotion is true tranquillity. Tranquillity in tranquillity is not true tranquillity; it is tranquillity in action that is the true tranquillity"

nobody goes there anymore; it's always too crowded

there was an article titled "Killin' Time" in Traditional Bowhunter in the last couple years. Addressed the very issue. Enjoy TiME - it slips away so very quickly. mg

Do you know who was asking about you the other day?Nobody.

CAUTION author unknown

" IF you your lips Would keep from slips Of these five things beware:

Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how, and when, And where."

Sandy

Sometimes a picture expresses an idea better than words.

"These Golden Years ain't all they are cracked up to be"

My Dad

I am the Legend!!!!!!!!!!!!

Said Frisky! LOL

As long as I have gas in my car I can go make meat! Who needs to shoot one when I can pick one off the road. Another Frisky quotes.

Loose lips sink ships. Not sure who I forgot.

I sure hope your trophy's will keep you warm Glenn when I am gone. Ex Wife.LOL

TG she has been helping me lately after 20 years.

All does come back to the nest. LOL

By the Cat LOL

I'm feeling a lot better can't ya tell today. No pain today but that's the meds.LOL

"Nothing clears a troubled mind like shooting the bow "

Fred Bear

If you ain't breaking you ain't making.

"Hang in there, you'll make it." a retiree told me that today at lunch.

"you should wear a hat. at least you'd be using your g.d... head for something"

My pap when he heard about my 107 mph speeding ticket

These are great!. laughing my butt off reading them

Kinda reminds me way back when I got my first bow for Christmas and shot the neighbors chicken in rear end. I didn't figure it was going to fly away with my arrow up its butt. The neighbor lady brought it over asking if we knew anything about it? Oh there was trouble then. LOL

When a neighbor brings prey to you and asks if this is your arrow. Its truth or consequence time.LOL

By the cat.

Worst part was they ate my chicken I killed him and didn't get to eat myself. He was in my yard so i figured fare game. I tried to plead that very thing with my parents but that didn't go over to good. Funny thing was I thought I saw my father try to crack a smile as I got my bow taken off me and my hide tanned.LOL

"Never pass up an opportunity to shut up", Will Rogers

Too bad the gluttons on todays so called hunting and outdoor shows follow that mantra. Fred Bear was a true sportsman in every sense of th word.

"Don't over think it", my sister.

"It's only an unsuccessful hunt if you don't go.....ME!"

Now that is a good one!!!

Here's one of my favorites that was uttered by my best friend/hunting buddy when he was asked once about patterning the deer in the area we hunt........

"They are, where they're at, when they're there."

"What was big was not the trout, but the chance.

What was full was not my creel but my memory"

Aldo Leopold

Fred Bear rules.

I wish I could've known the man,...but I'll settle for YouTube clips and shooting his bows.

"You should have been here yesterday" - all fisherman

Dan i always prefered the famous,,,"Oh yea,,,,watch this,,hold my beer"!

Taking game on a hunt is just a bonus. ..OE

"Hunting, ie: Sitting on your butt all day, hurts"! Gluteus Maximus

"If you ain't bleeding, you ain't knapping". My flint knapping mentor Mike Cook told me this when I first started.

In comparison...the beauty of musky fishing is you get to fish all day and never have to clean any fish.

True story.

Tis wiser to keep one's mouth shut and let people think you the fool than to open it and prove it.

“It’s only about 3 or 3-1/3 miles to camp.” Crookedstix

"Really, it's not you...it's me" Staphanie Moreno 1980 Broke my heart hahahaha.

“If you don’t wear a helmut, then you don’t have anything to protect” —My Dad the day I got my ‘48 Panhead Harley Running and was going out on my first ride.

“You only need three things to make it in this life..Good food, good shoes, and a good place to sleep”. —-My Grandmother on my Mom’s side.

"It's only a stupid mistake when you make it the SECOND time."......my father.

Theres no such thing as a stupid question

Paul Fasholt

Life is hard, but if your stupid its even harder.

John Wayne

Don’t practice until you get it right, Practice until you can’t get it wrong! Arrowchucker

Shoot low boys, they're riding Shetland Ponies.

You can not fix stupid

"Everybody wants to shoot like me, but nobody wants to train like me!" -Howard Hill

"Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die!"

Don’t sweat the “petty” things, and don’t pet the “sweaty” things. Don’t know who said it, but I like to use it ......Lloyd. LOL

Dad said. If your gonna be that dumb, you'd better be tough. Bye for now

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it !!! If you start off with junk,... you end up with junk. Careful what you’re looking for, you might not like what you find.(Planet of the Apes)

"To be a true archer, one must entertain a sort of holy feeling. The mention of guns must be carefully avoided." Stewart Edward White, 1926, hunting with Pope and Young in Africa. bvd

"To be a true archer, one must entertain a sort of holy feeling. The mention of guns must be carefully avoided." Stewart Edward White, 1926, hunting with Pope and Young in Africa. bvd

Sometimes you'll find more horses asses than horses. My Dad.

"They're gonna take you and me both to the hospital, to get my foot out of your a$$." My dad.

My Dad told me when I was a kid:

" You can be intelligent and lazy, or dumb and a hard worker and still make a living. But if your dumb and lazy your going to starve to death. " "LOL"

My Father:

"Outa 8 kids your the only one i never worry bout,,,,cause if you cant fight your way out of it,,,you can bull sh$t your way out"...

re. the very first reply in this thread - "True, so why doesn't the same thing apply to fishing? I mean if I sit bobbing up and down all day trying to catch a fish and don't, I have totally wasted my time."

There is a very real difference between fishing and 'catching'. Someone once said, 'The fishing was good, the catching was poor.'

I've never considered one minute of fishing, hunting or shooting to be time 'wasted'. Sometimes I've caught nothing, killed nothing, or couldn't buy a ten ring with gold eagles. But every minute was good.

ANY time I get to go into the woods the hunt it's already a success.

"I am going to beat you till you bleed and then beat you for bleeding"

Some men go fishing all their lives without knowing it's not fish they are after Henry David Thoreau Seems the same can be said for hunting.

Every man must believe in something, I believe I'll go fishing. Thoreau

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”. (Jaws )

Go ahead,.......make my day. Clint Eastwood ( not sure if ....Dirty Harry ????)

My Dad, thought I made a mistake once, then found out I was right.

My uncle, if your digging a hole you must dig another to put the dirt in.

Experience is a series of non fatal mistakes.

The life you live is the lesson you teach.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher, it gives you the test first and the lesson afterwards.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

If your not satisfied with what you have you won't be happy with what you want.

"Knowing You once Did...When those abilities cease...will bring You Peace while Sitting on Your Porch watching the Sun Go Down"...Me...4finger

Personally, I would'nt give $20.00 for a whole barrel full of em.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

Fools speak because they have to say something

Ron,...that’s very good. Is that your own quote?? Lloyd

This is my favorite response quote when folks ask me why I am a 100% tradbow hunter..."It's not what you get... it's what you get it with" !!!!

"whats on the spit?"

"Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time."

My grandfather: Things are really messed up today, people go inside to {poop} and outside to eat.

Lloyd, the quote is by Plato

Lloyd, the quote is by Plato

The only thing golden about the golden years is your urine.

I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

To respond to an earlier post on why I shoot sticks...for me, it's how close can I get, not how far can I hit.

Granddaddy: If ya gotta get married do it first thing in the morning, that way...if it don't work out, you don't blow the whole day.

Chuck Yeager (sp?): Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing that leaves the aircraft serviceable the next day is an OUTSTANDING landing.

"The best things about hunting and fishing are the places you do it in and the people you do it with."

My brother Tim.

Man, some of you had some great dads!!

My dad had a great quote, on the only time he ever talked about WWII, but those days are done, and I have fellow Asian bowhunting brothers, that I would not want to offend,,,,,,

great quotes lots of fun

“Keep your stick on the ice “. ........Red Green !!!!

rallison...I once asked my father, a bush pilot, if it was hard to land an airplane on water.

He replied " Peter...every plane that takes off will eventually land...the angle you hit the ground determines your skill as a pilot."

Pdiddly...yup. Also reminds me of a reporter gushing about the bombing accuracy at a press briefing during Desert Storm.

The Air Force officer giving the briefing answered, "they are incredibly accurate...every bomb we drop hits the ground."

Regarding lost arrows:

"that is why they sell them by the dozen"

I agree with Fred but it makes one wonder why hunters embrace so much technology trying to increase success, with even less effort!

If you could chase yourself, would you like what you caught? nybubba

If there was no chance of a kill I would not waste my time.

"So you're telling me there's a chance?!"

What do you think? Well, “I think it would take a great big hog to weigh a ton and, a one hundred pound sack of flour would make one heck of a biscuit.”

"It's a GREAT...BIG...BUCK...you can tell by the way it holds it head." Said by every half drunk driving deer chaser around here when a they see a yearling deer running across a section. It must be famous, they all say.

Bluesman, I'd modify that first Fred Bear quote to this version: "There are no unsuccessful hunts, none are a waste of time". TK

My favorite quote:

if you cant lick um, lick um' ted nugent

'When got your head up your ass, keep your moth shut.'

RAbbit hunters will know the truth of this one...hunting snow Shoe hairs with my fatherin the snow..."Son it takes a lot of tracks to Make a rabbit" sandy

My dad used to say: "There is nothing like deer hunting and card playing to bring out the worst in people." bvd

"Wait 'till your father gets home!"

My mother.

Jawge

"Ma don't tell dad!"

Me

Jawge

If your not going to use your head, you might as well have an axx on both ends. My Dad!

(You can't steal second with your foot on first!) Can't remember, but I always liked that one!

The fish stinks from the head back!

"Ya cant be afraid to miss"

John Shultz

If at first you don,t succeed-punt

There's no fool like an old fool. bvd

Come on..... sh!t or get off the pot.

Better to go through life wishing for something you had then having something you wish you never had

On my moms Tombstone- When it's time to leave this world for a better place someday. The only thing you get to keep is what you gave away.

buzzards gotta eat same as worms Josey Wales

"people demand the freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren Kierkegaard

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."........Robert Heinlein

On Down the Road..........

Hold to the course, though the storms are about you;

Stick to the road where the banner still flies;

Fate and his legions are ready to rout you--

Give 'em both barrels--and aim for their eyes.

Life's not a rose bed, a dream or a bubble,

A living in clover beneath cloudless skies;

And Fate hates a fighter who's looking for trouble,

So give 'im both barrels--and shoot for the eyes.

Fame never comes to the loafers and sitters,

Life's full of knots in a shifting disguise;

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters,

So give 'em both barrels--and aim for the eyes.

-- Grantland Rice, From "The Sportlight."

"You don't know hog jowls from horse s**t", Bill Tyler in "The Mountain Men." bvd

" No sense getting older unless you Get smarter" Max Cormack to me..Wabush Labrador ..1964. Sandy

“*' It isn't the fellow who's catching lots of fish and shooting plenty of game that's having the good time: it's the chap who's getting ready to do it."

“You may loan your last dollar to a friend ; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.”

“Darned socks cause blisters, especially when a man does the darning.”

Horace Kephart "Camping and Woodcraft"

Scott

Dean Torges, when asked how I could get my black dye to be as black as the black near the tips and grips of his sunburst Firestyx. - "Make it blacker".

And I think I came up with these myself- "If I ain't gonna catch 'em anyways, I'd rather not catch a 50 pound striper than not catch a five pound bass."

"Surest way to ruin a great day of fishin' is to start keepin' 'em."

Live Long and Prosper by Mr Spock

The moon is so big and full tonite I wish you could see it. My ex wife. She's back in Missouri I'm in Colorado. Daaa

Success breads jealousy. And jealousy breads rumors. My dad. On many of life's achievements. Hunting also

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is.. ..that good men do nothing"

Edmund Burke. Sandy

"I would rather have; A full bottle in front of me, then a full frontal Lobotomy"

W.C. Fields

When W.C. Fields was asked: "Do you like children?" He answered: "I prefer them parboiled"

A very upset liberal woman accosted Winston Churchill: "Prime Minister Churchill...You are such a horrible man. If I were your wife, I believe I would kill myself!" Churchill Instantly answered: "Madame, If I were your husband I believe I would let you!"

The man that comes in second in a gun fight doesn't brag about it.

The only reason to ride a bull is to meet a nurse. bvd

That stump is harder than woodpecker lips.

Two that I can think of: "Do or do not, there is no try!" - Yoda (Star Wars)

It's better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Didn't know it had to have anything to do with traditional archery. Just a quote!

Didn't know it had to have anything to do with traditional archery. Just a quote! You...freedom of speech.

“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”

Clemenza, from “The Godfather”

( I don’t mind eating a cannoli after a session of trad archery.)

"Everybody has a plan until somebody gets hit in the mouth". Which brings about the second quote: "Have a plan-B capable of cleaning up the mess".

"When the phone don't ring...it will be me"...guy I used to know told his girl friend this the night they broke up....

The last word in ignorance is the Man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it'? Aldo Leopold.

Sandy

“Flies cause disease. Keep yours closed “

-Private Lutz, Band of Brothers

There was a old Owl who lived in a Oak

The more he saw the less he spoke.

The less he spoke the more he heard

I wish more were like that wise old bird

Please forgive me, but I simply can't resist this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8j8c7iL3E

(Bela Lugosi and a herd of buffalo.)

"Pull the string! Pull the string! Mistakes made. A story must be told."

Archery? Insanity?

I can no longer be sure.

Every time I'd be shooting with my brother and I'd say " I'll take that shot ". My brother would say " You have to, you let go of the string."

Rest in peace brother.

A promise made..... is a debt unpaid!!!

Just remembered one more that has nothing to do with traditional archery: "You're going to need a bigger boat!" Brody (Jaws)

"It's not the arrow, it's the Indian"

I tend to think it's the other way around.

Deno

Success is all a matter of luck, just go ask any failure.

Henry Ford

Me, about 7 or 8 yrs. old, bored out of my mind, waiting for a western TV show to start, enduring a political convention speech, "Dad, what's he talking about?" Dad answered, "Not much, just turning farts into a manure pile."

A lot of talk on this site about what is the best arrow/brodhead combination for deer hunting reminds me what an old timer once told me, " Son it's not what you throw at them that counts, it's what you hit them with ".

"Everything arrives in its proper time."..my Dad

"What was the last thing you remembered?"....Waaaay too many people in my life...to me.

"Pride cometh before the fall and fall before a long cold winter"

I’m 100% on board with those who hunt to fill the freezer. But for me, the only failure in an “unsuccessful” hunt is if I don’t learn anything….

Speaking of which…

“There are those who learn by reading in books. There are those who learn from observing the mistakes of others. And there are those who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

No idea who said it first, but I learned it from my dad…

HEXX, that reminds me of an old story, possibly a myth, from some years back.

A small country messaged the Kremlin, 'stop sending surface-to-air missiles, send surface-to-airCRAFT missiles!'

"You're going to put that thing WHERE??!!??"- ME,to my urologist as I am being sedated for prostate surgery....ZZZZZ

"Hi, nice to see you again. Last time was High School graduation!"-my mom to my then girlfriend. About 40 years ago now. Whew! Glad God got me straightened out....

We were at a shoot in Grayling years ago and wound up at meet and greet at the Bear museum . A young man asked Mr .Bear if he’d ever gotten lost . He grinned and said “ Son , you’re only lost if you have someplace to be “ pretty cool

No such thing as bad weather....just bad gear.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson after.

Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

"There ain't enough ointment to fix that."

"If a man in the woods makes a decision and there's no wife around to hear it, is he still wrong?" Me 47 years ago. Ya know, I sure wish she was still here for me to tease like that.

That'll leave a mark.

Thems I ain't hitting at I ain't aiming at. Rooster Cogbern

I came into this world kicking, screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I have no problem going out the same way.

A man is only as good as his word

" Whoever called the golden years golden should be kicked in the ass " me "just because you're paranoid does'nt mean they're not out to get ya" college professor

Coulda Shoulda Woulda

"Don't piss on my back and say it's raining." unknown

At age 73 my favorite " Don't let the old man in" Clint Eastwood

Seen it right off, didn't put enough dirt down. Bearclaw Crizlap. Jeremiah Johnson

What matters is what you do with the time you are given.

Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it.(mark Twain)

When the man with the money meets the man with the experience. The man with the experience gets the money. The man with the money gets the experience. >>>---> Ken

When we passed a graveyard my father would say "if the dead could speak they would say stop wasting your life"

“If i was afraid of a challenge I’d put sights on my bow” ~ unknown ~ to me that is

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