I may be the wrong person for my life..

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I ….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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 ….

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

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 like young girls. Their stories are shorter..

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

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

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

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….

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