"But if the salmon and trout must be classified as elite in this mythical social structure then let the black bass be given permanent status as the working class of American gamefish. He's tough and he knows it. . . . .He's a bass sax grumbling, get-down blues in the bayou. He's a factory worker, truck driver, wild catter, lumberjack, barroom bouncer, dock walloper, migrant farmhand, and bear wrassler. And if it's a fight you're looking for, he'll oblige anytime, anywhere. Whether it's a backwater at noon, a swamp at midnight, or dockside at dawn, he'll be there waiting. He's a fierce-eyed, foul-mouthed, tobacco chewing redneck who has traveled to every corner of the nation, paying his way and giving no quarter."
Pat Smith "Old Iron Jaw" Lamar Underwood's Bass Almanac (1979)
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http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to a Quarterback."
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