The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

Here we are now, entertain us..

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man..

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish..

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life..

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape..

Love can tame the wildest..

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer..

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit..

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins..

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away..

You don't take a picture, you make a picture..

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another ….

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture….

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare f….

Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you….

If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populati….

Feed a fish a cat a day.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire..