The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Eight Unforgettable Fishing Tales

by Lamar Underwood (Editor)

Overview

The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told is sure to ignite recollections of your own angling experiences as well as send your imagination adrift. In this compilation of tales you will read about two kinds of places, the ones you have been to before and love to remember, and the places you have only dreamed of going, and would love to visit. Whether you prefer to fish rivers, estuaries, or beaches, this book will take you to all kinds of water, where you'll experience catching every kind of fish. Read on as some of the sport's most talented writers recount their personal memories of catching bass, trout, bluefish marlin, tuna, and more. Explore the Pacific with Zane Grey, as he fights a 1,000-pound blue marlin, or listen as A.J. McClane explains just what it really means to be an angler. Take a step back in time when you read Ernie Schwiebert's tale of fishing a remote lake in Michigan, when he was still only a young boy. Each of these stories, selected because of its intrinsic literary worth, reinforces the unique personal connection that fishing creates between people and nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493039586
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2020
Series:	Greatest
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,008,688
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

	Preface	VII
	Song of the Angler	1
	The Return	8
	Jody's Bass	16
	Fishing the Run	25
	Weather	36
	Listen to this Tale of Woe	41
	The Intruder	51
	The Music of the Spheres	59
	Now I Lay Me	69
	The Marquesas	78
	Down to Zero	97
	September Song	112
	Bruisers of the Weed Beds	122
	Roll Cast	131
	Adventures in Solitude	137
	Sachem River	156
	The Beginning of the Season	168
	Thoughts in Coltsfoot Time	176
	The First Thousand-Pounder	181
	Bright Rivers	192
	September 18	201
	Midstream	208
	Fishing Streamers and Bucktails for Trout	221
	Striped Bass and Southern Solitude	229
	A Trout Stream Named Desire	235
	A Moveable Feast	251
	Thread of the River	265
	A Creelful of Zern	273

Editorial Reviews

"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is "The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told", anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading." —The Lexington County Chronicle

From the Publisher

These two anthologies follow close behind a similar pair from last summer, Paul D. Staudohar's Fishing's Best Short Stories (LJ 7/00) and Hunting's Best Short Stories (Chicago Review, 2000). Hyperbole aside, all four are packed with fine prose from notable authors both classic and contemporary. That overlap between the competing counterparts is minimal just goes to show that fields and streams have been wonderful muses to many generations of writers. These diverse selections of short fiction and essays are enhanced by Underwood's informative prefatory remarks giving literary or historical context or adding some amusing anecdotes or interesting trivia. Underwood is a former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and knew many of the authors personally. Patrick O'Brien, Thomas McGuane, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, Ben East, Charles Eliot, John Barsness, and Ed Zern are represented by separate contributions in both books. Major angling writers such as A.J. McClane, John Gierach, and Nick Lyons are in the Fishing book, of course, but there are also laudable pieces by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Le Anne Schreiber, and Zane Grey. The unanticipated outstanding authors in the Hunting volume include William Faulkner, Ivan Turgenev, and Theodore Roosevelt. The stories in both collections range from tender to raucous to knee-slapping hilarious. Highly recommended for all public libraries.--Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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