Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.