
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop While Spring brings the promise of a new season and Summer the transition from green...
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop While Spring brings the promise of a new season and Summer the transition from green...
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby There is a freshness in the October air that is...
"If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” –George Eliot You are a bird, a migratory bird. You have flown about the earth...
"The craft of angling is the catching of fish, but the art of angling is its receptiveness to these connections, the art of letting one thing lead to another until,...
"Those who fish get to know and understand a river in a way few others can.” – W. D. Wetherell What does it mean to know and understand a river?...
"Success begets confidence and confidence begets success—and that fine upward spiral is the best restorative of streamside sanity.” ~ Howard T. Walden Each presentation is a feedback loop. The drift,...
““One brisk morning spent fishing on a misty lake can bring home to a child the beauty, drama and fragility of our national heritage in a way a thousand classroom...
“Fly fishing is about adaptation—in any role, capacity, or genre.” ~Charles Jardine from the forward to Dynamic Nymphing by George Daniel Nothing about the trout’s environs are ever the same....
“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First, it taught me to look at rivers. Lately, it has been teaching me how...
“Betcha goin' fishin' all of your time, baby's goin' fishing too/ Bet your life, your sweet wife, catch more fish than you.” – “Fishing Blues” by Chris Smith Whether you...
“You can’t play a Bach solo partita on the fly rod…but a split bamboo fly rod, used well, is also a small embodiment of human grace.” – George Black August...
“…neither time nor repetition has destroyed the illusion that the rise of a trout to a dry fly is properly regarded in the light of a miracle.” ― Harold F....