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"A Book of Fishing Stories" is a 1913 work by F. G. Aflalo comprising a variety of stories related to angling. Contents include: "Odds and Ends", "Salmon Fishing in the Spey", "On Sea Trout", "Dapping on Lough Derg", "Salmon Failures and Successes", "Salmon and Trout Memories in Many Lands", "How to Make Trout-fishing", "Tarpon Fishing in the Seas", "Memories of Mahseer", Course-Fishing Memories", etc. This wonderful volume of authentic angling anecdotes...
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Nick Lyons, a legend in fishing world, has assembled a sampling of the best of the classic and contemporary tales, memoirs, essays and poetry. This book is perfect for anyone who fishes, or knows someone who fishes, or loves life out of doors. I know what I'll be giving as gifts this year. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting,...
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The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fish at many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over the world. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recounted by great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praise the trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fisherman's song! This superbly presented collection of fishing stories...
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This vintage book contains a collection of short stories and anecdotes related to fishing, originally published in the Birmingham Mail and the Fishing Gazette. These easy-to-read and often amusing anecdotes will appeal to all with a love for angling, and they are not to be missed by collectors of vintage fishing literature. Contents include: "Angler Integrity", "Futility of Faked Baits", "Depressing Story of Rural Cunning", "Intelligence of Cats",...
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Many stories of fishermen meeting Great White and other sharks. No one gets eaten. Many are reticent about going out on or diving into the ocean for quite a while after meeting man-eating sharks face to face. Stories of fishermen having other problems. Interesting tales of truck driving during WW2. Arguments with feisty farm animals who usually win. Opal Mining at Coober Pedy. Plenty of thieves present. Some accidently fall down unused 90 foot shafts,...
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Susan "Sue" Daignault was practically born with a rod and reel in her hand. Nearly from her birth, she and her family spent entire summers surfcasting for striped bass along the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. That love has followed her through her days in the Coast Guard and to her home on the coast of Maine and to some of the most beautiful, and fishy, places in the world. In her fun and fascinating new book, A Full Net, Sue shares with...
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The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values. Now, for the first time, the winners of this prestigious award are collected in one volume, which promises to satisfy not only fly-fishing aficionados but general readers who appreciate the outdoors...
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Fishing is many things to many people. To some, quietly dangling a worm for a sunfish in a local farm pond is not only exciting, but relaxing and reflective. To others, it's all about the adventure of traveling to exotic locales and fishing for ten-pound rainbow trout in Alaska or 100-pound tarpon in Central America. To others, it's an integral part of life, not just a pastime but something to live for. Still others feel compelled to write about it,...
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The annual Robert Traver Award honors the very best writing that implies an implicit love of fly-fishing. For more than 20 years, Fly Rod & Reel magazine has consistently published some of the finest short stories about fly-fishing and the people who love it. This anthology showcases work by some of the most well-known outdoor writers, some of them were Traver winners, some were finalists, all are exceptional.
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257 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace"--
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On the surface this book spins a fisherman's tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan who defies his own macho stereotype. All professional writers, the men have met every autumn for eighteen years at the Big Arsenic Springs on the Río Grande to fly-cast for trout and argue about life, literature,...
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Whether it's hunting, fishing, or simply shooting, the love and thrill of the outdoors will always remain.
In Tales of Woods and Waters, well-known outdoor editor Vin T. Sparano has collected thirty-seven of the greatest, most enjoyable, and most well-written outdoors stories to have been published. Experience the tension of hunting in the jungles of Tanzania in Jim Carmichael's "Kill the Leopard," the joys of your first .22 in Garth Sanders's "My...
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All fishermen who have fished for a lifetime have baskets of great stories and reminiscences about the sport they love. Nick Lyons's new collection is chock-full of them. From fishing a small Catskill creek and catching a huge brook trout when he was barely out of infancy to long opening day treks during his teens, and then on to fishing in France, Iceland, Key West, Montana, and widely elsewhere, Nick has spent a lifetime on the water.
Fishing Stories...
15) Gone fishing!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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When Donald, Minnie, and Daisy suprise Mickey and Goofy on their fishing trip, the relaxing weekend they had planned turns to chaos.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Nobody has every been able to catch The Great Googly Moogly, a giant and terrifying fish of legend. But Stella aims to do just that. Armed with fishing gear and differing baits, she sets out every day to realize her dream, whatever the weather. But what will she do if she succeeds?
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