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

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

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

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

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.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.