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.

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.

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

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

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

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

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