If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story.
Paul SchulleryFishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.
Paul SchulleryIf you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.
Paul SchulleryI don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.
Paul SchulleryWhen we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
Paul Schullery