The world's best fishing stories
By: edited by Colin Kearns
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781616288679
Subjects: Fishing; Fishers; Fishing stories
Other titles: Field & stream, the world's best fishing stories; Field and stream, the world's best fishing stories; Field & stream (2003)
Description: "Field & Stream presents this collection of the best fishing stories shared throughout the 100+ year history of the magazine, from writers old and new, tales infamous and unknown. The best true-life fishing tales about big catches, bright seas, and the respect that nature commands come from the likes of John Updike, Bill Heavey, Zane Gray, Eddie Nickens, Ernest Hemingway, Ian Frazier, Kim Barnes, and Thomas McGuane. Anyone who appreciates a good story can appreciate the infinite resource that is the sport of fishing." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Stories published in Field & Stream, between 2000 and 2015.
Table of contents: title: Obsession.; title: Chasing the beast  -- Monte Burke ;; title: My tarpon addiction  -- Thomas McGuane ;; title: Red, white and bluegill  -- Ted Leeson ;; title: Salmon fever  -- Philip Caputo ;; title: Life. Death. And steelhead  -- Colin Kearns ;; title: Vertical trout  -- Bob Butz; title: Quest.; title: The descent  -- T. Edward Nickens ;; title: Fifty days on the water  -- Jim Harrison ;; title: Getting slammed  -- Guy Martin ;; title: On the road in bass paradise  -- John Merwin ;; title: Baja by bike  -- Nate Matthews ;; title: Rust-belt steel  -- Joe Cermele ;; title: The mid-life slam  -- Mike Toth ;; title: Flyfishing gone mad  -- Kirk Deeter ;; title: Mucha trucha grande!  -- Jonathan Miles; title: Company.; title: Lilyfish  -- Bill Heavey ;; title: Fishing with dad  -- Keith McCafferty ;; title: Gratitude  -- Dave Hurteau ;; title: The bluegill date  -- Will Brantley ;; title: The trout reunion -- Jim Fergus ; The life ahead /-- C.J. Chivers.