The essence of sport is courage.

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

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

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