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

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

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

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a cranks….

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this s….

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

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 ….

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The g….

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness..

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

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

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity..

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered..

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 ….

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 ….

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 ….

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

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in..

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins..

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana..

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter..