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

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

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

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

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.

...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.

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