"If they took the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one object, they would succeed. Success is sure to follow such application. The trouble lies in...
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"Why would I think about missing a shot that I haven’t taken yet?" – Michael Jordan The trout rhythmically feeds in the froth of bugs tight to the bank. Not...
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." – Anne Lamont The Creek is clear, the surface reflecting sky and golden mountains. The...
“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” – Raymond Joseph Teller An outside observer of an angler may not see the...
“As the temperature begins to cool and the sun gradually loses intensity, the dance begins. Gracefully rising and dipping over streamside vegetation, the big mayfly spinners signal the beginning of...
“Almost always, the people who say, ‘I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out’, and mean...
UPDATE! Self-Quarantine Ends - Nonresident License Sales Resume The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved resuming sales of nonresident licenses starting Saturday, May 16th at 10:00 am. Governor Little also...
“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.” – Izaak Walton Come the season opener...
“…fly tying is the next best thing to fishing; it is the sort of licking of the lips that eases a thirsty man in the desert.” – Arthur Ransome The...
“As with a faint star in the night’s sky, one can better understand fishing’s allure by looking around it, off to the side, not right at it.” – Holly Morris...
“Selectivity is a simple reflex pattern.” – Ernest Schweibert The trout, driven by instinct, will reflexively feed upon the dominant insect of the given season, the food source in which...
“More than half the time, a trout will refuse your fly not because the fly was wrong but because it was not behaving properly.” – Tom Rosenbauer Then there is...
