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

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

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

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

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

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.