It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.