The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told: 50+ Classic Tales
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Overview
The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fish at many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over the world. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recounted by great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praise the trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fisherman’s song! This superbly presented collection of fishing stories will set the reader sailing on the Loch or along the Thames and tracking down sharks or carp in many exciting waterways.
You will find memories, essays, true stories, and fishing accounts more or less exaggerated or imagined. Their authors and their editor, Nick Lyons, all share a communicable passion for a great day out fishing—a passion only surpassed by the love of telling the tale with or without the catch to show!
With work by more than fifty of the world’s most eminent authors and fishermen, including:
- John McPhee
- Howell Raines
- Ted Leeson
- Jimmy Carter
- Lefty Kreh
- Dave Barry
- Norman Maclean
- Rudyard Kipling
- And many more!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781510765696 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Skyhorse |
| Publication date: | 08/31/2021 |
| Series: | Best Stories Ever Told |
| Pages: | 576 |
| Sales rank: | 224,476 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword-A Memoir David Halberstam ix
Introduction Nick Lyons xv
Part I Early Days-Of It And Us
The Primitive Fish-Hook Barnet Phillips 4
Ælian-The Macedonian Invention, or the First Mention of an Artificial Fly William Radcliffe 14
The Compleat Angler (selections) Izaak Walton Charles Cotton 22
Trout: Meeting Them on the "June Rise" "Nessmuk" 45
Trouting Along the Catasauqua Frank Forester 51
Some Memories of Early Days Lord Grey of Falloden 57
Fishing with My Daddy Jimmy Carter 68
The River God Roland Pertwee 72
Part II The Warm Water Mix
"They're in the River" John McPhee 88
The Black Bass as a Game Fish James A. Henshall 92
Red, White, and Bluegill Ted Leeson 107
Sacred Eels James Prosek 111
The 'Lunge Stewart Edward White 125
Carp Fishing Frank Forester 132
Bow-fin Fishing in the South Slang Rowland E. Robinson 135
A Big Muskellunge W. N. Hull 142
The Shanty Jerry Gibbs 146
Fishing in the Ohio John James Audubon 153
Part III A Touch of Salt
The Angler and the Weakfish Charles Bradford 162
Sharks on the Shell Bars Vereen Bell 167
The Saga of the Yellowfin Mark Sosin 175
Keeping Busy When Not on the Casting Deck Lefty Kreh 179
The Tarpon of Turner's River A. W. Dimock 182
The Island Margot Page 193
Trailing the Sea-Bat Charles F. Holder 201
Byme-by-Tarpon Zane Grey 213
Skelton's Party (selection) Thomas McGuane 217
Part IV Trout and the Lure of Feathers
The Lakes at Inhluzane Tom Sutcliffe 224
2000 Words of Heartfelt Advice Verlyn Klinkenborg 229
First of April William Senior 234
The Evolution of a Fly Fisher Joan Salvato Wulff 239
A Bit of Luck Harry Plunket-Greene 243
Fishing with a Worm Bliss Perry 246
The Value of Observation George M. L. LaBranche 256
Two Old Trout of the Pools, and the Little Dry-Fly that Finally Accomplished Their Ruin Emlyn Gill 266
The Finest Trout in the World Harry Plunket-Greene 271
Nothing Fishy About Trout Dave Barry 274
In Praise of Trout-And Also Me Paul O'Neil 277
Part V Some Adventures on Water
The Miramachi it ain't, so all right, it's 116th St. John Bryan 296
Memories of Mahseer P. R. Bairnsfather 302
The One That Got Away (selection) Howell Raines 311
Part VI Anglers All-and Matters Philosophic
The Man Who Lived Two Lives in One: Zane Grey Robert H. Boyle 316
The Angler Washington Irving 328
What and Who Is an Angler? Thaddeus Norris 336
Note to Don Juan, Canto XIII Lord Byron 343
A Painter, an Angler, and Some Others William Scrope 344
Fishing Reverend Thomas Bastard 354
Crazy for Rivers (selection) Bill Barich 355
A River Runs Through It (selection) Norman Maclean 359
On Norman Maclean John Maclean 375
A Single Step George Reiger 377
The Even-Tempered Angler (selection) Louis Rubin 379
What's in a Name? Howard Frank Masher 382
The Solitary and Friendly Sport R. Palmer Baker, Jr. 385
Midstream Crisis Lamar Underwood 390
Blue Dun Frank Mele 397
Part VII Classic Fishing Stories
Storytelling on the Thames Jerome K. Jerome 412
Ol' Settler of Deep Hole Irving Bacheller 418
The Lucy Coffin W. D. Wetherell 424
Crocker's Hole R. D. Blackmore 436
A Fatal Salmon Frank Forester 450
A Gallant Poacher John Buchan 459
Brannigan's Trout Nick Lyons 467
A Fatal Success Henry van Dyke 480
On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art Rudyard Kipling 488
The Hole Guy De Maupassant 493
The Lady or the Salmon? Andrew Lang 499
Fish Are Such Liars! Roland Pertwee 505
A Wedding Gift John Taintor Foote 521
Mr. Theodore Castwell G. E. M. Skues 544
Acknowledgments 549