"[narrating]My father looked at me for a long time, just looked at me and this was the last he and I ever said to me a…"

"In my family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout river…"

"[narrating] My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout…"

"The Burns family ran a general store in a one store town and still managed to do badly. They were Methodist, a denomi…"

"[narrating] In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."

"[narrating] As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold on to, asking me again and again: had I told him eve…"

"The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."

"[narrating] Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do …"

"Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same questio…"

"Craig Sheffer - Norman Maclean"