As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Fishing 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.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

I 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.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

If 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.