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

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

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.

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

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

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

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.