Dave Richey OUTDOORS

"Up my way old township politicians never die; they merely look that way. Instead they become justices of the peace." - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere

"Then we could see it before we could hear it, a cloud of earth and sticks and stones - it was war, a bombardment - then nothing but the pulsing surge of the water racing past us. And all the while my father and old Dan and the rest of us stood there, silently watching the fishless waters of Lake Traver emptying into the lumber company's ruined beaver dam. The beaver dam had washed out." - Little Panama

"Yantleman of da yruy," he said, rising and pointing scornfully at the fish net. "Who da hecks ever caught a gude Svede using vun of dem gol-dang homemade Finlander nets? Ay tank you!" - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere

"Some anglers I know can't quite decide just what kind of green pastures are the most wearing on fishermen: those in the great majority that turn into wild-goose chases; those rarer ones that sometimes actually deliver; or those rarest ones of all, like Loon Lake, that are simply crawling with magazine-cover trout, and steadily defy one's best efforts to take them on flies." - Green Pastures

"She was born on an assembly line in Detroit in 1928." -The Fish Car