We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

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

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.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

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

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.