An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.