The more things you own, the more they own you..

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things..

Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've….

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably ….

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

Whatever is contained must be released..

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think.

Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you ….

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

I'm not exactly repulsive..

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside..

this is the upside of already being eternally damned.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?.

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative ….

With God, there is always a future..

Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is noth….

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappo….

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….

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?.

Obviously it could be, because it was..

I'm not out here to be beefing with nobody..