I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

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.

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

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

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

I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.