The best fishing stories ever told /
The best fishing stories ever told /
edited and introduced by Nick Lyons ; foreword by David Halberstam.
- xvi, 551 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-551).
The primitive fish-hook / Aelian the Macedonian invention, or the first mention of an artificial fly / The compleat angler (selections) / Trout : meeting them on the "June rise" / Trouting along the Catasauqua / Some memories of early days / Fishing with my daddy / The river god / "They're in the river" / The black bass as a game fish / Red, white, and bluegill / Sacred eels / The 'lunge / Carp fishing / Bow-fin fishing in the South Slang / A big muskellunge / The shanty / Fishing in the Ohio / The angler and the weakfish / Sharks on the shell bars / The saga of the yellowfin / Keeping busy when not on the casting deck / The tarpon of Turner's river / The island / Trailing the sea-bat / Byme-by-tarpon / Skelton's party (seletion) / The lakes of Inhluzane / 2000 words of heartfelt advice / First of April / The evolution of a fly fisher / A bit of luck / Fishing with a worm / The value of observation / Two old trout of the pools, and the little dry-fly that finally accomplished their ruin / The finest trout in the world / Nothing fishy about trout / In praise of trout and also me / The Miramachi it ain't, so all right, it's 116th St. / Memories of Mahseer / The one that got away (selection) / The man who lived two lives in one : Zane Grey / The angler / What and who is an angler? / Note to Don Juan, Canto XIII / A painter, an angler, and some others / Fishing / Crazy for rivers (selection) / A river runs through it (selection) / On Norman Maclean / A single step / The even-tempered angler (selection) / What's in a name? / The solitary and friendly sport / Midstream crisis / Blue dun / Storytelling on the Thames / Ol' settler of deep hole / The Lucy coffin / Crocker's hole / A fatal salmon / A gallant poacher / Brannigan's trout / A fatal success / On dry-cow fishing as a fine art / The hole / The lady or the salmon? / Fish are such liars! / A wedding gift / Mr. Theodore Castwell / Barnet Phillips -- William Radcliffe -- Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton -- "Nessmuk" -- Frank Forester -- Lord Grey of Falloden -- Jimmy Carter -- Roland Pertwee -- John McPhee -- James A. Henshall -- Ted Leeson -- James Prosek -- Stewart Edward White -- Frank Forester -- Rowland E. Robinson -- W. N. Hull -- Jerry Gibbs -- John James Audobon -- Charles Bradford -- Vereen Bell -- Mark Sosin -- Lefty Kreh -- A. W. Dimock -- Margot Page -- Charles F. Holder -- Zane Grey -- Thomas McGuane -- Tom Sutcliffe -- Verlyn Klinkenborg -- William Senior -- Joan Salvato Wulff -- Harry Plunket-Greene -- Bliss Perry -- George M.L. LaBranche -- Emlyn Gill -- Harry Plunket-Greene -- Dave Barry -- Paul O'Neil -- John Bryan -- P. R. Bairnsfather -- Howell Raines -- Robert H. Boyle -- Washington Irving -- Thaddeus Norris -- Lord Byron -- William Scrope -- Reverend Thomas Bastard -- Bill Barich -- Norman Maclean -- John Maclean -- George Reiger -- Louis Rubin -- Howard Frank Mosher -- R. Palmer Baker, Jr. -- Lamar Underwood -- Frank Mele -- Jerome K. Jerome -- Irving Bacheller -- W. D. Wetherell -- R. D. Blackmore -- Frank Forester -- John Buchan -- Nick Lyons -- Henry van Dyke -- Rudyard Kipling -- Guy De Maupassant -- Andrew Lang -- Roland Pertwee -- John Taintor Foote -- G. E. M. Skues.
9781510765696
2010032149
Fishing stories.
PN6071.F47 / B48 2010
808.83/9579
Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-551).
The primitive fish-hook / Aelian the Macedonian invention, or the first mention of an artificial fly / The compleat angler (selections) / Trout : meeting them on the "June rise" / Trouting along the Catasauqua / Some memories of early days / Fishing with my daddy / The river god / "They're in the river" / The black bass as a game fish / Red, white, and bluegill / Sacred eels / The 'lunge / Carp fishing / Bow-fin fishing in the South Slang / A big muskellunge / The shanty / Fishing in the Ohio / The angler and the weakfish / Sharks on the shell bars / The saga of the yellowfin / Keeping busy when not on the casting deck / The tarpon of Turner's river / The island / Trailing the sea-bat / Byme-by-tarpon / Skelton's party (seletion) / The lakes of Inhluzane / 2000 words of heartfelt advice / First of April / The evolution of a fly fisher / A bit of luck / Fishing with a worm / The value of observation / Two old trout of the pools, and the little dry-fly that finally accomplished their ruin / The finest trout in the world / Nothing fishy about trout / In praise of trout and also me / The Miramachi it ain't, so all right, it's 116th St. / Memories of Mahseer / The one that got away (selection) / The man who lived two lives in one : Zane Grey / The angler / What and who is an angler? / Note to Don Juan, Canto XIII / A painter, an angler, and some others / Fishing / Crazy for rivers (selection) / A river runs through it (selection) / On Norman Maclean / A single step / The even-tempered angler (selection) / What's in a name? / The solitary and friendly sport / Midstream crisis / Blue dun / Storytelling on the Thames / Ol' settler of deep hole / The Lucy coffin / Crocker's hole / A fatal salmon / A gallant poacher / Brannigan's trout / A fatal success / On dry-cow fishing as a fine art / The hole / The lady or the salmon? / Fish are such liars! / A wedding gift / Mr. Theodore Castwell / Barnet Phillips -- William Radcliffe -- Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton -- "Nessmuk" -- Frank Forester -- Lord Grey of Falloden -- Jimmy Carter -- Roland Pertwee -- John McPhee -- James A. Henshall -- Ted Leeson -- James Prosek -- Stewart Edward White -- Frank Forester -- Rowland E. Robinson -- W. N. Hull -- Jerry Gibbs -- John James Audobon -- Charles Bradford -- Vereen Bell -- Mark Sosin -- Lefty Kreh -- A. W. Dimock -- Margot Page -- Charles F. Holder -- Zane Grey -- Thomas McGuane -- Tom Sutcliffe -- Verlyn Klinkenborg -- William Senior -- Joan Salvato Wulff -- Harry Plunket-Greene -- Bliss Perry -- George M.L. LaBranche -- Emlyn Gill -- Harry Plunket-Greene -- Dave Barry -- Paul O'Neil -- John Bryan -- P. R. Bairnsfather -- Howell Raines -- Robert H. Boyle -- Washington Irving -- Thaddeus Norris -- Lord Byron -- William Scrope -- Reverend Thomas Bastard -- Bill Barich -- Norman Maclean -- John Maclean -- George Reiger -- Louis Rubin -- Howard Frank Mosher -- R. Palmer Baker, Jr. -- Lamar Underwood -- Frank Mele -- Jerome K. Jerome -- Irving Bacheller -- W. D. Wetherell -- R. D. Blackmore -- Frank Forester -- John Buchan -- Nick Lyons -- Henry van Dyke -- Rudyard Kipling -- Guy De Maupassant -- Andrew Lang -- Roland Pertwee -- John Taintor Foote -- G. E. M. Skues.
9781510765696
2010032149
Fishing stories.
PN6071.F47 / B48 2010
808.83/9579