The essence of sport is courage.

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

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.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.