About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it. 
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. 
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
