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

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall 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.

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

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

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

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