The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told: 50+ Classic Tales - Paperback

by Nick Lyons (Editor), David Halberstam (Foreword by)

Classic stories about fishing compiled and edited by an expert angler

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 will set the reader sailing on the Loch or along the Thames and tracking down sharks or carp in many exciting waterways.

You will find memories, essays, true stories, and fishing accounts more or less exaggerated or imagined. Their authors and their editor, Nick Lyons, all share a communicable passion for a great day out fishing--a passion only surpassed by the love of telling the tale with or without the catch to show

With work by more than fifty of the world's most eminent authors and fishermen, including:

• John McPhee
• Howell Raines
• Ted Leeson
• Jimmy Carter
• Lefty Kreh
• Dave Barry
• Norman Maclean
• Rudyard Kipling
• And many more

Author Biography

Nick Lyons is a former English professor and book publisher, as well as the author and editor of many books on various topics. Lyons has also written hundreds of essays, which have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, National Geographic, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Big Sky Journal, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and widely elsewhere. His memoir, Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life, was published by Arcade Publishing in 2020. He lives in New York City.

David Halberstam was the winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. In the fall of 2007, his twenty-first book, The Coldest Winter, about the Chinese entry into the Korean War, was published by Hyperion. His prior fourteen books, starting with The Best and the Brightest, have been national bestsellers. He passed away in April 2007.