Author: Don Paglia

Tip # 15: “Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job.”                                                                              Paul Schullery  Those individuals who make what they do look easy, do so because they have achieved a significantly high level of mastery. They have this level of mastery because they’ve never stopped learning how to do what they […]

Tip # 14; “If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business.” Alfred W. Miller    It is so cliché to say life is short, yet this life each of us has been given, relative to death, it is extremely short. Some tells us we have all come from the unknown, into this […]

Tip #13: “If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church.” Tom Brokaw Recently I attended a church of sorts. I say this because I think of church as people rather than a building. This is theologically consistent with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that called church “the people of God.” This […]

 Tip #12: “Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, Scene, 1 Line 2 I’ve asked parents who complain about having scolded their child over some particular behavior “one hundred times” regarding what it is the parent expects, and still their child fails to conform. They then […]

Tip #11: “O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?” Isaak Walton Years ago I discovered something quite useful: we are all meaning-makers. In other words, we make up everything. There is really no meaning to anything, until you or I […]

Tip #10: “If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” Doug Larsen Years ago I used to have regular, daily to-do lists. I would make them up all the time and constantly try to work off of them. I’d draw a line through any one of […]

Tip #9 “A bad day’s fishing is better than a good day at work.” Anonymous  Not every day is a feel-good day. If one were only to act based upon feelings little would ever get done, or ever accomplished. Not only that, but we’d be acting out ours feelings, which more than likely, would produce […]

Tip #8 “It is not a fish until it is on the bank.” Irish Proverb This one seems pretty obvious: when you go fishing it doesn’t count as an actual caught fish until you have actually caught it. This is so self-evident, but we make this kind of error in our lives all the time. […]

Tip #7 “There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind.” Washington Irving. When Michael Jordan was on the court playing for the Chicago Bulls his presence brought the entire teams level of play up to another level. Some would call it mystical, or magical. […]

Tip # 6 “Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.” Irish proverb A certain women’s college basketball coach has tried to explain that she does more than take gifted and extremely talented athletes into her program. This coach gets these gifted and extremely talented players to play ball with […]