Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.