Northern Ireland Tourist Board: Fishing - Information on coarse fishing: venues (including wheelchair-accessible facilities), licenses and permits, tackle and bait shops.
Discover Northern Ireland: Angling - Extensive information about coarse, game and sea fishing including venues, licencing, boat hire, ghillies, tackle and bait shops, tour operators and events. An official site of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.
Bann System Ltd - Offering game and coarse fishing on the river Bann. Rules and permit information by beat.
Northern Ireland Carp Anglers Society - Features newsletter, catch reports, league results, photos and information about Mill Lodge Fishery near Dromore.
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Fishing We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Fishing
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Fishing "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Fishing
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Fishing Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Fishing
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Fishing He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Fishing
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Fishing "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Fishing
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Fishing "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Fishing
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Fishing "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Fishing
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Fishing The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Fishing
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Fishing "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Fishing
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Fishing "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Fishing
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Fishing It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Fishing
