An Angler’s Prayer

We have collected some of the best Angler’s prayers to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith.

Angling is a method of fishing by means of a fish hook or “angle”. The hook is usually attached to a fishing line, which is often attached to a fishing rod. Modern fishing rods are usually fitted with a fishing reel that functions as a mechanism for storing, retrieving and paying out the line. Tenkara fishing and cane pole fishing are two techniques that do not use a reel. The hook itself can be dressed with bait, but sometimes a lure with multiple attached hooks is used in place of a single hook and bait.

An Angler’s Prayer

I pray that I may fish until my dying day,

and, when it comes to my last cast;

I then most humbly pray,

when in the Lord’s great landing net

and peacefully asleep;

that in His mercy I be judged

big enough to keep.

The Anglers Prayer

Thank you for each starry night that I have pitched a tent, Where sand bass ran, a full moon rose, for all these times you’ve sent.
I thank Thee Father, for these eyes of mine, that caught a sunset’s gold these memories I will treasure when I take to growing old.
You’ve protected me when the tide was high, and the strong winds began to rise, and guided my rig to a harbor safe, beneath dark, violent skies.
You’ve taught me god through the great outdoors, to see that life is fair. So I thank Thee, Father on bended knee as I send this angler’s prayer.
Brittany Fishing Ocean Water Horizon Angler

Saltwater fishing

The Anglers Prayer

by Cliff Parker

LORD, I am sitting here, in inclement weather
And conditions of great personal inconvenience,
For all sorts of reasons:
To get away from the fumes, the smoke, the noise,
The rat race, the boss, the bank manager, the tax inspector,
The wife, the kids, the mother-in-law,
But ostensibly to catch fish.

The fish are slow in coming.
Possibly because they have been annihilated
By the four tons of toxic rubbish
Dumped upriver – By the factory – Last Tuesday.

At the end of this day, having had nary a nibble,
And feeling at odds with the world,
I shall stumble from the meadow
Into the shelter and warmth
Of a well-appointed – Hostelry.

There I shall sup more than is good
For my health, pocket or equilibrium.
Telling the while, to whomever will listen,
The most outrageous and unprincipled
Variations, on the truth.

After which, having been ejected
By a landlord who no longer loves me,
Either for my money
Or considerable personal charm,
I shall wend my weary way home,
Holding deep philosophical conversations
With passing tomcats, stray dogs,
Lamp posts and policemen,
None of whom have much sympathy
With the piscatorial ethos.

Meanwhile – Back at the cottage small,
Will be waiting the Little Woman,
Light of My Life and Moon of My Desire,
With a feast, long since past its prime.
Armed as a shield maiden of old Teutonic legend,
With a hairy great rolling pin, lethal-looking poker,
Substantial tin tray, or any combination of these,
The Light of My Life – Will bend one or all
Over my – Already throbbing – Swede.

If this, Lord, Is what fishing is all about, I give up.

Never again – Under any circumstances.
Nothing would tempt me.
Wild horses would not drag me.
I’d rather die – So there.
Amen.

P.S. Could You please make it a bit warmer for this Saturday?

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