Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told

More than one hundred of the finest writers ever to pick up a rod, collected in one 576-page volume. Fishing is the oldest excuse there is for a good story. Edited by Nick Lyons—a lifelong angler and one of the most respected names in fishing literature—this anthology gathers over a hundred pieces of fiction and nonfiction from writers who understood that the telling matters as much as the catch, with or without one to show. John McPhee is here. So are Jimmy Carter, Norman Maclean, Dave Barry, Lefty Kreh, Howell Raines, Ted Leeson, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron—presidents and poets, humorists and guides, casting instructors and novelists. What you'll find inside: Fly fishing for trout and salmon: cold mornings, rising fish, and the hatch that finally came off Bass, pike, carp, and panfish from ponds, farm lakes, and home water close enough to walk to Saltwater: tarpon, stripers, bluefish, and sharks, from the surf and well offshore Writing from Scottish lochs, the Thames, Catskill creeks, Montana rivers, and the Florida flats Literary fiction beside firsthand accounts, some of them more or less exaggerated Humor, obsession, bad weather, lost fish, and the friends who were there Some of these you'll remember. Many you've never read. All of them explain why people stand in cold water before sunrise. For anyone who fishes, anyone who grew up fishing, and anyone who loves a well-told story about water, this is a volume to keep by the chair, and a lasting gift for a father, a fishing partner, or a beginner just learning to cast.