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

... 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.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

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.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

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