These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.
I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.