Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling on….

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond..

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for r….

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble..

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act..

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!.

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on the….

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious bu….

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it..

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this..

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, whic….

From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows bug….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date ….

Never leave fish to find fish..

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen a….

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it..

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg..

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other t….