The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

You never step in the same river twice.
~Heraclitus

If stupidity got us into this mess,
why can't it get us out of it? - Will Rodgers

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend...and inside a dog, it is too dark to read!" G. Marx

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek
when the tribe did not really need fish.
~Roderick Haig-Brown

I am haunted by waters.
Norman MacLean
A River Runs Through It

My favorite thing about fishing isn't the catching, but just being there - Beerfly

"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)

"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton

Harry in Hawaii
"one day fishing is worth four days sitting around eating Spam musubi, or for that matter, two hours stuck in commute traffic on the H-1, brah"