The one that got away, or, Tales of days when fish triumphed over anglers
By: wood engravings by Christopher Wormell
Contributors: Hastings, Max, author; Clarke, Brian, author
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781910723029
Subjects: Fishing; Anecdotes
Other titles: Tales of days when fish triumphed over anglers
Description: Fisherman only become bores when they are bragging about their big fish. But this collection of essays shows their other side. When fishermen talk about their losses, they show a much more interesting side, and here a collection of famous or important writers all contribute an essay which in many cases becomes more than an account of a lost fish which has haunted them all their lives; it sheds light on the nature of loss itself, and how the human spirit endures it.
Notes: Originally published in 1991.
Table of contents: title: The bass at the Mere / Nigel Haywood; title: Last cast on Dal Harrald / Max Hastings; title: Too soon an age / Brian Clarke; title: The fish by the thistle / Sidney Vines; title: When all the world was young / David Street; title: Misadventure at Malindi / Julian Paget; title: Jilted by the queen / Chris Yates; title: Islamorada / Neil Patterson; title: Never trust a poacher / David Steel; title: Putting yourself on the line / David Profumo; title: Pool of the summer sheiling / Bruce Sandison; title: The trout that said thank you / Conrad Voss Bark; title: Over the volcano / Bernard Venables; title: Going for bust / Chips Keswick; title: Playing the April fool / George Melly; title: One that should have got away / Jeremy Paxman; title: The monster of Clapham Beck / Laurence Catlow.