Modest Sportsman: The Journal
Stories and essays from B.C.’s rivers, lakes, forests, and backroads.
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One More Rise
"The angler forgets most of the fish he catches, but he does not forget the streams and lakes in which they are caught." - Charles K. Fox
Fishing
Fishing The Off Season
“The season is ended. There was not enough of it; there never is.” – Nick Lyons
The Ascension of an Angler
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.” — Tom Brokaw
Minimalism and Fly Fishing
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of Mankind” - H.D. Thoreau
Fishing a Hypothesis
“Fishing has been styled ‘a contemplative man’s recreation,’ … and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.” - H.D. Thoreau
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