Fishing's Best Short Stories

by Paul D. Staudohar

Book Overview

A handful of sinister characters and dark plots pepper this collection, but for the most part, these 25 tales portray fishermen as endearing folk, good humored and quick with a yarn, eager to help a novice, and famously prone to exaggerate. The scenery includes roiling oceans, still ponds, swift rivers, and bubbling brooks, and the fish themselves range from the noble trout to salmon, tarpon, bass, dolphin, permit, flounder, grouper, weakfish, northern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155652403X
• ISBN13: 9781556524035
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommending reading for all anglers.

The next best thing to fishing is to read about fishing. In Fishing's Best Short Stories, Paul Staudohar has gathered almost twenty-five memorable stories from the mid-19th to the 20th century from some of the most popular and respected writers which truly capture the spirit of the sport. The contributors include Stephen King, P.J. O'Rourke, Guy De Maupassant, Robert Traver, Joyce Renwick, Henry van Dyke, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, E. Annie Proulx, Thomas McGuane, Philip Wyle, John Taintor Foote, Bob Shacochis, Stephen Vincent Bent, Jack Gilchrist, Bob Shcochis, Robert Traver, Elmer Ransom, Geoffrey Norman, Weldon Stone, Jason Lucas, Edwin L. Peterson, Roland Pertwee, Paul Hyde Bonner, Warren Gibson, and Sparse Grey Hackle. Fishing's Best Short Stories is highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever had rod and reel in their hands, or waded hip deep in streams and rivers, or angled from a boat on ponds and lakes.