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

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

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

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.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

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