Occupation: Author Birth: 1948
If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent ….
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matte….
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as….
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent..
If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your though….
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog..
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job..
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish..
I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go..