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

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

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.

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

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

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