Well Said

"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."
-Henry David Thoreau

And from "The Two Worlds of the Washo", a monograph by James F. Downs discussing the pre- and post-European practices of the native tribe from California and Nevada near Lake Tahoe:

"However, fishing is an activity which does not require large-scale cooperation. One needs only to look at a modern trout stream or fishing pier to realize the truth of this statement. Each fisherman searches the same water, using the same methods, but each is lost in his own isolation. In a sense, this was true of the Washo."

The photograph is of me lost in my own isolation on the Deschutes River in Oregon. I caught nothing that day and went home happy.