Best Fishing Stories Ever Told Pa

by Lyons,Nick

• ISBN13: 9781616080563
• ISBN10: 1616080566
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-09-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fishat many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over theworld. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recountedby great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant,and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praisethe trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fishermanrs"ssong! This superbly presented collection of fishing stories will setthe reader sailing on the Loch or along the Thames and trackingdown sharks or carp in many exciting waterways. You will find memories, essays, true stories, and fishing accountsmore or less exaggerated or imagined. Their authors and their editor,Nick Lyons, all share a communicable passion for a great dayout fishing-a passion only surpassed by the love of telling the talewith or without the catch to show! With work by more than one hundred of the worldrs"s most eminentauthors and fishermen, including: John McPhee Howell Raines Ted Leeson Jimmy Carter Lefty Kreh Dave Barry Norman Maclean Rudyard Kipling And many more!

Author Biography

Nick Lyons, who edited and introduces The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, is also the editor of Hemingway on Fishing. He has written over twenty books, mostly on fishing, in addition to hundreds of articles on the subject, which appeared in magazines such as Field Stream, Outdoor Life, and Fly Fisherman.

Table of Contents

Foreword-A Memoir	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Early Days-of it and Us
The Primitive Fish-Hook	p. 4
Ælian-The Macedonian Invention, or the First Mention of an Artificial Fly	p. 14
The Compleat Angler (selections)	p. 22
Trout: Meeting Them on the "June Rise" "Nessmuk"	p. 45
Trouting Along the Catasauqua	p. 51
Some Memories of Early Days	p. 57
Fishing with My Daddy	p. 68
The River God	p. 72
The Warm Water Mix
"They're in the River"	p. 88
The Black Bass as a Game Fish	p. 92
Red, White, and Bluegill	p. 107
Sacred Eels	p. 111
The 'Lunge	p. 125
Carp Fishing	p. 132
Bow-fin Fishing in the South Slang	p. 135
A Big Muskellunge	p. 142
The Shanty	p. 146
Fishing in the Ohio	p. 153
A Touch of Salt
The Angler and the Weakfish	p. 162
Sharks on the Shell Bars	p. 167
The Saga of the Yellowfin	p. 175
Keeping Busy When Not on the Casting Deck	p. 179
The Tarpon of Turner's River	p. 182
The Island	p. 193
Trailing the Sea-Bat	p. 201
Byme-by-Tarpon	p. 213
Skelton's Party (selection)	p. 217
Trout and the Lure of Feathers
The Lakes at Inhluzane	p. 224
2000 Words of Heartfelt Advice	p. 229
First of April	p. 234
The Evolution of a Fly Fisher	p. 239
A Bit of Luck	p. 243
Fishing with a Worm	p. 246
The Value of Observation	p. 256
Two Old Trout of the Pools, and the Little Dry-Fly that Finally Accomplished Their Ruin	p. 266
The Finest Trout in the World	p. 271
Nothing Fishy About Trout	p. 274
In Praise of Trout-And Also Me	p. 277
Some Adventures on Water
The Miramachi it ain't, so all right, it's 116th St.	p. 296
Memories of Mahseer	p. 302
The One that Got Away (selection)	p. 311
Anglers All-and Matters Philosophic
The Man Who Lived Two Lives in One: Zane Grey	p. 316
The Angler	p. 328
What and Who is an Angler?	p. 336
Note to Don Juan, Canto XIII	p. 343
A Painter, an Angler, and Some Others	p. 344
Fishing	p. 354
Crazy for Rivers (selection)	p. 355
A River Runs Through It (selection)	p. 359
On Norman Maclean	p. 375
A Single Step	p. 377
The Even-Tempered Angler (selection)	p. 379
What's in a Name?	p. 382
The Solitary and Friendly Sport	p. 385
Midstream Crisis	p. 390
Blue Dun	p. 397
Classic Fishing Stories
Storytelling on the Thames	p. 412
Ol' Settler of Deep Hole	p. 418
The Lucy Coffin	p. 424
Crocker's Hole	p. 436
A Fatal Salmon	p. 450
A Gallant Poacher	p. 459
Brannigan's Trout	p. 467
A Fatal Success	p. 480
On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art	p. 488
The Hole	p. 493
The Lady or the Salmon?	p. 499
Fish Are Such Liars!	p. 505
A Wedding Gift	p. 521
Mr. Theodore Castwell	p. 544
Acknowledgments	p. 549
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