Fishing
| Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Silver Horde | 1930 | Drama | Joel McCrea, a salmon fisherman, tries to open a cannery. |
| Tiger Shark | 1932 | Drama | Fisherman Edward G. Robinson loses a hand saving a man's life. |
| Riffraff | 1936 | Romance | Tuna cannery worker Jean Harlow falls for fisherman Spencer Tracy |
| Johnny Frenchman | 1945 | Drama | British film about rival Cornwall fishing families. |
| The Old Man and the Sea | 1958 | Adventure | After 84 days without a catch, a Cuban fisherman (Spencer Tracy) lands a marlin. |
| Man's Favorite Sport? | 1964 | Comedy | A phony fishing expert (Rock Hudson) ends up entered in a big tournament. |
| Blue Fin | 1978 | Family | Australian film about a boy who learns tuna fishing. |
| A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Drama | Story of Montana brothers hooked on fly-fishing, directed by Robert Redford. |
| Gone Fishin' | 1997 | Comedy | Inept anglers Joe Pesci and Danny Glover have an adventure in the Everglades. |
| The Perfect Storm | 2000 | Drama | Commercial fishermen from Gloucester, Massachusetts including George Clooney get caught in storm of the century. |
| The Lost World of Mr. Hardy | 2008 | Documentary | U.K. film about a family firm that manufactures fishing tackle. |
| Ondine | 2009 | Drama | An Irish fisherman (Colin Farrell) catches a woman in his net. |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | 2011 | Comedy | A Brit (Ewan McGregor) helps a sheikh introduce salmon fishing to his country. |
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Famous quotes containing the word fishing:
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
—Tom Brokaw (b. 1940)
“The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)