Dave Richey OUTDOORS

I lurched foggily across the street and banged on the bar, "Drinks fer da house!" I ordered, suddenly going native. "Giff all da Paulsons in da place vatever dey vant." - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere

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

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

"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