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

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 no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.