Whitefish Can't Jump : And Other Tales of Gamefish on the Fly

by Thomas, E. Donnall

• ISBN13: 9780071348683
• ISBN10: 0071348689
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

In these nineteen lyrical stories, Don Thomas takes us to many places: Christmas Island in search of bonefish; an Alaskan river where boating a huge rainbow becomes momentarily more important than avoiding a midstream collision with a nine-foot grizzly; a far northern pond and an encounter with the Ultimate Northern Pike; and Yellowstone's Lewis Lake for a young daughter's first brown trout on a fly. From each story we learn a little about fishing and a lot about life.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
Bonefish Fools	1	(11)
Bonefish: Albula vulpes
The Best And The Brightest	12	(8)
Rainbow Trout: Oncorhynchus mykiss
Big Brother	20	(9)
King Salmon: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Born To Kill	29	(8)
Northern Pike: Esox lucius
Captain Clark's Trout	37	(8)
Cutthroat Trout: Oncorhynchus clarki
The Fifth Resolution	45	(11)
Permit: Trachinotus falcatus
Humpies From Hell	56	(8)
Pink Salmon: Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Hello, Dolly	64	(9)
Dolly Varden: Salvelinus malma
The Color Brown	73	(9)
Brown Trout: Salmo trutta
The Prince Of Autumn	82	(8)
Silver Salmon: Oncorhynchus kisutch
Whitefish Can't Jump	90	(9)
Rocky Mountain Whitefish: Prosopium williamsoni (and friends)
Gifts From The Sea	99	(9)
Steelhead: Oncorhynchus mykiss
Just One Fish	108	(8)
Arctic Grayling: Thymallus arcticus
The Aristocrats	116	(9)
Brook Trout: Salvelinus fontinalis
A Tale Of Two Ponds	125	(9)
Largemouth Bass: Micropterus salmoides White Crappie: Pomoxis annularis
Reds	134	(9)
Sockeye Salmon: Oncorhynchus nerka
The Twenty-Minute Rule	143	(9)
Tarpon: Megalops atlantica
Lovely, Dark, And Deep	152	(9)
Arctic Char: Salvelinus alpinus Far Eastern Char: Salvelinus leucomaenis Lake Trout: Salvelinus namaycush
Gone To The Dogs	161
Chum Salmon: Oncorhynchus keta