Luckily, though, there are still a few guys around who will look you straight in the eye and say, eloquently and to the point, ‘It’s been too goddamn….

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think.

If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, an….

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side..

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations….

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the….

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappo….

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be..

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to reme….

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably ….

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong..

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream cultu….

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case..

I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as lo….

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions..

Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've….

Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you ….

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative ….

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip..

From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows bug….

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the ….