Love and fishing--

[Jennie@ifish]

I had more fun writing on the front page, today!
I took love poems, and replaced the "love" meaning, with fishing. Here are some that I came up with! I can't believe how true I believe them to be!
Fishing really is my true love! :smile:

See if you can come up with some of your own!

-Better to have fished and hurt, then to never have fished at all.

-After all, some people will die for fishing,
Others will die because they lost it.

- Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen fishing And thou art enough.

-I love fishing - those three words have my life in them.

- You will never know true happiness
until you have truly fished, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.

- So dear I love fishing that with it,
All deaths I could endure.
Without rod in hand, live no life.

- I have fished to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to fish.
-One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is fishing

And my very, very favorite, from this day forward:
Age does not protect us from fishing,
But fishing to some extent protects us from age.


Whoo hoo! I love that one! :smile:

[Jennie@ifish]

Am I a nutcase?

[Jennie@ifish]

Yes, I am nuts!
So nuts, and I love these kinds of things SO much, that I am going to start a contest!
I have an Okuma Convector CN 20L that I'm going to give out, to the person who comes up with the best Love/Fishing quote on this thread.

The end time is tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 PM.

I, Jennie, will pick out my favorite THREE. I may have help from the moderators, or it may just be me. Not sure.

After I choose three or so, of my favorites, I will create a poll, and all ifishers may vote on those three. The winner will be the quote that touches your feelings and passion for fishing, the most.

Ready, Set... start up your fishing passion and love quotes~!

THEY MUST BE G RATED!!!!

Jen

[D$_KFalls]

Entry # 1:

"Let those fish now, who never fished before;
Let those who always fished now fish all the more."

Extra credit for rhyming, right?



Entry #2:
"And you learn that fishing, true fishing,
Always has joys and sorrow,
Seems ever present,
Yet is never quite the same,
Becoming more than fishing and less than fishing,
So difficult to define.
And you learn that through it all,
You really can endure,
That you really are strong,
That you do have value."

Kinda sums it all up ... the joy brought on by landing a huge fish, the agony brought on by "almost" landing a huge fish. It also defines how fishing tests your internal fortitude, and your will to go on, vis-a-vi your love for your own spirit.

Okay, Jennie. It's wearing off on others now. How many people do you suspect you can sucker into becoming "nuts" with you?

D$

[Jennie@ifish]

Isn't it amazing? We are fish sick!

I LOVE the second one!

I think I'm going to doop alot of you into nutsiness!

Jen

[Jennie@ifish]

How bout doing marriage vows?

Through sickness and in health... LOL!

[FrogPond]

Ok- I'll bite!

#1
Fishing in it's truest form has no language or words,
it just has a thousand and one actions
we all wish we could describe.

#2
Fishing is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

I guess the second one is inspired by the engineer in me.

[Jennie@ifish]

I love these!

It's absolutely no wonder I'm still single! I can more relate to fishing on this emotional level, then another human being!

Jen

[Pete]

When fishing is suppressed, hate takes it's place. ~Havelock Ellis

The loss of fishing is a terrible thing. They lie who say that death is worse.
~Countee Cullen

In fishing, the one who is cured first is cured the best.
~La Rochefoucauld

The absolute value of fishing makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Fishing cannot save life from death: but it can fulfill life's purpose.
~Arnold J. Toynbee

When one is fishing one begins by deceiving one's self. And one ends by deceiving others.
~Oscar Wilde
...and who says fishermen lie? :grin:

[3riversBob]

OK........Here's a few from me. This is fun!


"There is no remedy for fishing but to fish more."
-Thoreau

"Friendship often ends in fishing; but fishing in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to fish."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"A mighty pain to fish it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to fish, but fish in vain."
-Abraham Crowley


Bob

[Capt. Hook]

If you love something. let it go free. If you catch it again, bonk it!

[No Wishin Just Fishin]

I love fishing, let me count the ways

[trap50]

This is for my best friend,my wife.
As we grow older together,
As we continue to change with age,
There is one thing that will never change...
I will always keep fishing with you

[Freakwater]

Then it was said, Speak to us of Fishing.
And the prophet raised his head and looked upon the people,
and there fell a stillness upon them.
And with a great voice he said:
When fishing beckons to you, follow him,
though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his net enfolds you, yield to him,
though the sword hidden among his fins may wound you.
And when he speaks to you, believe in him,
though his voice may shatter your dreams as easily as the north wind lays waste the pond.

For even as fishing crowns you, so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth, so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your
tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in
their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He sifts you free from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness and kneads you until you are pliant.
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may
become bread of the sacred feast.
All these things shall fishing do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

Think not you can direct the course of fishing, for fishing,
if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Fishing give naught but of itself, and takes naught but from itself.
Fishing possesses not, nor would it be possessed;
for fishing is sufficient unto itself.
Fishing has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

When you fish, let these be your desires:
to melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody, to the night.
to know the pain of too much tackle.
to be wounded by your own understanding of fishing; and bonk willingly and joyfully;
to wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of fishing;
to rest at the noon hour and mediate fishing’s ecstasy;
to return home at eventide with dinner;
and then to sleep with a prayer for your beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

~Kahlil Gibran

[Tanner]

If you love something catch it and let it go free. If it doesn't come back catch a brat and kill it.

[Woody]

This is for my best friend,my wife.
As we grow older together,
As we continue to change with age,
There is one thing that will never change...
I will always keep fishing with you

Perfect, this one get's my vote. Oh, man I'm getting a little teary eyed.

" I am not against golf,because I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout"
-Paul O'Neil

[Jennie@ifish]

Captain J's post has me on the floor! :smile:

Jen

[jokester]

- You will never know true happiness
until you have truly fished, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.

This one gets my vote!! Oh how true :grin:

-jokester

[Jennie@ifish]

These are all SO good!
You know, I was listening to the radio, and even love songs can be exchanged with fishing! :smile:

Get out those old mushy poetry books! Get out those 70's "I la la la la love you" albums!

These are just grand!

Jen

[finnman]

"Ask not what fishing can do for you. Ask what you can do for fishing."

Not a poem but words to live by.

Finnman

[finnman]

Ok a couple more...

"It's better to lost at fishing than to never fished at all."


Coho's are silver
Chinook's have a hue
I sleep with my Kwikfish
In hopes that I catch a few


Finnman

[AuntyM]

If I know what fishing is, it is because of you

Fishing is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence

[Jennie@ifish]

I am bad. I changed the rules of the darn contest, again. No body reads the rules, anyway! I said two entries per person. Hooey on that! Enter as many as you like! I love them!

Jen

[Elwix]

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is fishing.

We can only learn to fish by fishing.

[3riversBob]

Here's a reverse from love/fish to fish/love:

Give a man love and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to love and you feed him for a lifetime.

Bob

[Bank Maggot]

here are a few for you guys


The cure for all
the ills and wrongs,
the cares, the sorrows
and crimes of
humanity, all lie in
that one word "fishing."
It is the divine vitality
that produces and
restores life.
To each and every one
of us it gives
the power of
working miracles,
if we will.





Fishing is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint.
Without fishing our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without fishing we can no longer look confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy it ourselves. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.




Fishing is patient,
Fishing is kind,
true fishing will come;
in a matter of time



What is fishing but fishing
Fishing is the sky
Fishing can make you die
Fishing is fear
Anglers, shed tears
That is fishing



Fishing is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; fishing is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Fishing takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Fishing does not come to an end




Fishing courses through everything,
No, Fishing is everything.
How can you say, there is no fishing,
when nothing but Fishing exists?
All that you see has appeared because of Fishing.
All shines from Fishing,
All pulses with Fishing,
All flows from Fishing--
No, once again all is Fishing!




It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations,
If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light,
it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, or a week, or ten thousand years--
we turn on the light and it is illumined. Once we contact our capacity for fishing and happiness...the light has been turned on.

[Jennie@ifish]

This HAS to be my absolute favorite thread on ifish, to date! (or to fish!)



Thank you, so much for adding to it! I just thoroughly can relate to them all!

I'm a true "fisher" at heart! Don't give me that love stuff!


Jen

[Freakwater]

Your a fisher, not a fighter!

[uspolymer]

"A song is not a song until you sing it, a bell is not a bell until you ring it, love is not love until you give it away, and fishing is not fishing until you caught your first SPRINGER!"

Anyone have open seats? Help this newbie experience what FISHING is ALL about.

Alan

[B-run]

My ex wife knew I loved fishing before I loved her.


My ex wife gave me the choice, fishing or her, dang, I don't even miss her.

[Green Willie]

"Frankly Scarlet, you don't fish worth a dang" (you know the real word, but wanted to keep it G)

I know this isn't a winner, but my thinking is, if your spouse can't fish, then well, you know, it's all down hill from there. Burn the house, that's all that's left. :smile: :smile: (I'm having fun here)

JN

[SCStinger]

He who fishes last fishes best.

Fishing is in the air

[happybrew]

Not from this bait, anticlimax after
Refusal struck the fish and the river rocks
Bent my rod to lap the singluar floods
In a land strapped by hunger
Shall she receive a bellyful of fish
And bear those tendril hands I touch across
The agonized, two seas.
(apologies to Dylan Thomas)


A stranger has come
To share my river in the mountains not right in the head,
an angler mad as birds.

Bolting the night of the rod with her arm her plume.
Straight in the mazed river
She deludes the closed-mouthed fish with wispy flies.

(again, apologies to Dylan Thomas.)

happybrew

[Ryan Pultz]

I have fished to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to fish.
-One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is fishing

That one is the best!!
You had me rolling on the floor

[Ryan Pultz]

Ok I have one

<font color="blue"> Jesus loves the little fishes
All the fishes of the world
Red fish or Yellow fin black bass or pike
All are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little fishes of the world
</font>

Wow I know this will not win but it was inspired but the pics from Jennie with all the little smolts.

[Ryan Pultz]

Original Quote: "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps." --From Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare

Ifish revised Version: <font color="blue"> Some Fisherman kill with Trebles, some with Siwash
</font>

[feisty]

"And now abideth hope, faith and fishing, but the greatest of these is fishing" Icor.13

[Fish-n-Fever]

Make fish not war!

[Jennie@ifish]

These are fun!
Happybrew, you may be going a bit far... I don't think it's a suggestive thing! :smile: At least... not for me!

Jen

[Fish-n-Fever]

I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore,
Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more,
But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry,
From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.


Fishing lifted me! Fishing lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Fishing lifted me!

All my heart to Him I give, ever to Him I'll cling
In His blessèd presence live, ever His praises sing,
Love so mighty and so true, merits my soul's best songs,
Faithful, fishing service too, to Him belongs.

Fishing lifted me! Fishing lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Fishing lifted me!

Souls in danger look above, Jesus completely saves,
He will lift you by His love, out of the angry waves.
He's the Master of the sea, billows His will obey,
He your Savior wants to be, be saved today.

Fishing lifted me! Fishing lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Fishing lifted me!

[Fshklr]

To Love is human..to Fish is Devine

[Jennie@ifish]

Oh, great! Now I'll be singing "Fishing lifted Me!" All day long! :smile:

I love it! Will God be mad, though? :smile:

Jen

[happybrew]

Suggestive? It was the way Thomas wrote it, but I didn't think it was suggestive the way I re-wrote it. But then, poetry is as much in the eyes of the reader as the writer.

happybrew

[Jennie@ifish]

I just know the real one.

Yes, it is suggestive!

Much of his stuff seems that way, to me.

Anyhow-- it's all good! Still my most favorite thread of all times!

Jen

[Fish-n-Fever]

Will God be mad, though?

How could God be mad? God is the greatest fisher of all times!!!!!
Ron
If the words are not addictive enough how about some music?!
Fishing Lifted Me

[dlgobeavs]

To the tune of the intro to American Pie:

A long, long time ago I can still remember how that fishing used to make me smile ...and I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people fish and maybe they'd be happy for a while..... :smile:

[Ryan Pultz]

You call it madness, but I call it Fishing. Don Byas

[Ryan Pultz]

My momma always told me fishing is like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to catch Forest gump

Hey not love but funny

[Ryan Pultz]

Ok these are the last I swear! They’re just so fun

<font color="blue"> Why fish if losing one hurts so much? We fish to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis </font>


<font color="green"> If you have fishing in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Ann Landers </font>

<font color="purple"> Fishing doesn't make the world go 'round; Fishing is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones </font>

<font color="orange"> Where there is Fishing there is life. Gandhi </font>

<font color="brown"> Fishing: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce</font>

[bob thomas]

I feel the pull.
I shake my head and throw my body,
but I cannot free myself.
I feel the pull.
The river calls me, beckens me to come hither,
now, immediatly. I must go.
I feel the pull.
The way is long, and full of obstacles that bar the way.
But my love for the river is stronger than the thought of failure. I remember the way, somehow, someway.
I feel the pull.
All my childhood, I was taught how to survive, when to eat, when to be strong, smart, when to hide. I learned the deep pools, shallow waters, rapid water, where the rocks are. I know they are all still there, even after all this time.
I feel the pull.
I find the river is as it should be, cold, clear, strong, and full of life. I tremble in the chill of early dawn, in anticapation of what the day may bring.
I sence a presence nearby.
I feel the pull.
I hurry to the pool, as though I am in a race. I love being the first one there, so guiet, peaceful. I make my first cast, and let the line go down deep into the pool. I feel the shake of the head, and the throw of the body, but he cannot free himself.
I feel the pull.
The love of this feeling is strong, it must be answered, always and unwavering. It takes me where I must go.
I feel the pull.

[h20dog]

All you need is fishing. John Lennon.

Fishing means you never have to say you're sorry. A Fishing Story

AND of course my favorite, feel free to sing along...

Fishing, exciting and new
Come aboard, we're expecting you
Fishing, lifes sweetest reward
Let it flow, it flows back to you.

The fishing boat soon will be making another run
The fishing boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure
your mind on a new romance

Fishing wont hurt any more
It's an open smile on a friendly shore
yes fiiiiishing, it's fiiiiishing.....

[Fish-n-Fever]

Fishing is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
~ by Germaine De Stael ~

[byteme]

This thing they call fishing is gonna make you cry.
I've had the blues, the reds, and the pinks.
One thing's for sure,
Fishing stinks!

Fishing stinks
Yeah, yeah
fishing stinks


J. Giles Band

This tune seems to always be playing on the other side of the boat.

[Ryan Pultz]

Well are we going to have a winner on the best quote? :whazzup:

[Jennie@ifish]

Why, yes we are!
There is a poll of the top three pinned to the top! Vote Now!

Jen

When I awoke this morning, dove beneath my floating home. Down below her graceful side in the turning tide to watch the seafish roam