The best fishing stories ever told

The primitive fish-hook / Barnet Phillips

Aelian the Macedonian invention, or the first mention of an artificial fly / William Radcliffe

The compleat angler (selections) / Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

Trout : meeting them on the "June rise" / "Nessmuk"

Trouting along the Catasauqua / Frank Forester

Some memories of early days / Lord Grey of Falloden

Fishing with my daddy / Jimmy Carter

The river god / Roland Pertwee

"They're in the river" / John McPhee

The black bass as a game fish / James A. Henshall

Red, white, and bluegill / Ted Leeson

Sacred eels / James Prosek

The 'lunge / Stewart Edward White

Carp fishing / Frank Forester

Bow-fin fishing in the South Slang / Rowland E. Robinson

A big muskellunge / W. N. Hull

The shanty / Jerry Gibbs

Fishing in the Ohio / John James Audobon

The angler and the weakfish / Charles Bradford

Sharks on the shell bars / Vereen Bell

The saga of the yellowfin / Mark Sosin

Keeping busy when not on the casting deck / Lefty Kreh

The tarpon of Turner's river / A. W. Dimock

The island / Margot Page

Trailing the sea-bat / Charles F. Holder

Byme-by-tarpon / Zane Grey

Skelton's party (seletion) / Thomas McGuane

The lakes of Inhluzane / Tom Sutcliffe

2000 words of heartfelt advice / Verlyn Klinkenborg

First of April / William Senior

The evolution of a fly fisher / Joan Salvato Wulff

A bit of luck / Harry Plunket-Greene

Fishing with a worm / Bliss Perry

The value of observation / George M.L. LaBranche

Two old trout of the pools, and the little dry-fly that finally accomplished their ruin / Emlyn Gill

The finest trout in the world / Harry Plunket-Greene

Nothing fishy about trout / Dave Barry

In praise of trout and also me / Paul O'Neil

The Miramachi it ain't, so all right, it's 116th St. / John Bryan

Memories of Mahseer / P. R. Bairnsfather

The one that got away (selection) / Howell Raines

The man who lived two lives in one : Zane Grey / Robert H. Boyle

The angler / Washington Irving

What and who is an angler? / Thaddeus Norris

Note to Don Juan, Canto XIII / Lord Byron

A painter, an angler, and some others / William Scrope

Fishing / Reverend Thomas Bastard

Crazy for rivers (selection) / Bill Barich

A river runs through it (selection) / Norman Maclean

On Norman Maclean / John Maclean

A single step / George Reiger

The even-tempered angler (selection) / Louis Rubin

What's in a name? / Howard Frank Mosher

The solitary and friendly sport / R. Palmer Baker, Jr.

Midstream crisis / Lamar Underwood

Blue dun / Frank Mele

Storytelling on the Thames / Jerome K. Jerome

Ol' settler of deep hole / Irving Bacheller

The Lucy coffin / W. D. Wetherell

Crocker's hole / R. D. Blackmore

A fatal salmon / Frank Forester

A gallant poacher / John Buchan

Brannigan's trout / Nick Lyons

A fatal success / Henry van Dyke

On dry-cow fishing as a fine art / Rudyard Kipling

The hole / Guy De Maupassant

The lady or the salmon? / Andrew Lang

Fish are such liars! / Roland Pertwee

A wedding gift / John Taintor Foote

Mr. Theodore Castwell / G. E. M. Skues.