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

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.