Russell Chatham Quotes

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.