Poontown Quotes

“Now Isla Plata was to fishing as Nantucket was to whaling: a memory of a bygone era.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“She’d never shied away from a challenge before, no matter how loudly her self-doubt had screamed.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“The pain was part of the joy of hooking a giant tarpon. It made no sense to complain about the consequences of success.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“Striped bass are the gateway drug to saltwater fly fishing. Catch one on fly, and twenty years later, you’re throwin’ pink synthetic chickens at marlin.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“His mind was a cacophony of “woulda, coulda, shoulda” as they made their way back to the marina—nothing like a tournament to ruin a wonderful day of fishing.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“You create a winning team by combining a guide who can find the fish that don’t want to be found with an angler who can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“When a team is winning, the guides credit the angler and the anglers credit the guide.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“Death comes for us all, but I’m not going to sit home and wait for it. It’ll have to track me down. In the meantime, I’m going to live the life I want to live.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“In his quest to be the best, he had squeezed all of the joy out of the most sublime fishing in the world.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“The bottom line is this: it doesn’t matter what happened five minutes ago or what you want to do a minute from now or by the end of the day or the end of the tournament. The only thing that matters is what you’re doing now.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“Tarpon fishing is a state of mind. It transports us to a special place completely outside of our normal lives.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory