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It's So Silly Isn't It? How We Grown Men Take Up Trout Angling Not Simply To Pursue Trout But To Find Some Place, Some Special Place, Where We Feel At Ease. A Place To Belong. Forces, Not Forms, Persist: Energy Is Spent And Endures; Time Does Not Tick, It Flows. God Loves A Man That Smells Of Trout Water And Mountain Meadows. Which Way's Heaven, You Suppose? Follow The Trail And Keep Close To The Stream.

-Carey Mulligan

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It's So Silly Isn't

Carey Mulligan

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It's So Silly Isn't It? How We Grown Men Take Up Trout Angling Not Simply To Pursue Trout But To Find Some Place, Some Special Place, Where We Feel At Ease. A Place To Belong. Forces, Not Forms, Persist: Energy Is Spent And Endures; Time Does Not Tick, It Flows. God Loves A Man That Smells Of Trout Water And Mountain Meadows. Which Way's Heaven, You Suppose? Follow The Trail And Keep Close To The Stream.

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