Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't….

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without comp….

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy..

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probabl….

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana..

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand..

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and ofte….

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and….

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it..

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us..

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing..

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basemen….

Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of tim….

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our f….

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimida….

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us..

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more oft….

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear..

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman a….

We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to find three men….