My favorite quote was from about 10 years back when I fished a day with James on pool 4 a couple days after the river rose about 8 feet and was blowing out of the banks everywhere. Cutting through from the main channel to the wisconsin channel, we were headed at what looks like shoreline.
Me: “Dude, where are you going?”
James: “Right through that gap in the brush. Trust me, there’s plenty of water”.
He was right.