...it is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions. - Norman Maclean

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing. It is also interesting that thoughts about fishing are often carried on in dialogue form where Hope and Fear — or, many times, two Fears — try to outweigh each other.

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

All there is to thinking,” he said, “is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.