About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.