Author: Don Paglia

Tip #35: “An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home.”                                                                Author Unknown For many people, living within the numerous societal conventions is often overly difficult and taxing. Doing so is also a bit […]

Tip #34: “All fishermen are liars; it’s an occupational disease with them like housemaid’s knee or editor’s ulcers.”                                                  Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949 Fishers do not lie, they will, when given the chance, exaggerate. And in each retelling of their latest fishing escapade, that fish they caught will become larger and […]

Tip #33: “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”                                                                        […]

Tip #32: “Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.”                                                               Author Unknown  Human beings love having, and often seek out, both significance and contribution. We don’t simply want significance; we don’t just want to be a contribution; we NEED them. For some people the […]

Tip # 31: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.”                                                                 Author Unknown Beer drinkers often get a bad rap. If we look a bit closer, however, and get beyond what WE KNOW […]

Tip #30: “It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.”                                                    John Steinbeck Being “against” anything or anyone is usually a poor way to operate. A better way to a high quality life is when we make sure our life is […]

Tip #29: “The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.”                                                             A.K. Best Can you distinguish the difference between having a great day and having a productive day? Some days a whole lot doesn’t get done, yet it can still be viewed as an excellent day. Most of us, men and women, […]

Tip # 28: “Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”                                                                     Ernest Hemingway Sometimes the one looking over your shoulder is you. It’s called you’re own personal, self-critic. Some call it “the editor within.” I call […]

Tip # 27: “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”                                                                            […]

Tip # 26: “All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.”                                Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969 When Beth and Roger went to a marriage counselor after Roger’s affair, as their marriage was on the brink of ending, the […]