Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Eight Unforgettable Fishing Tales

by Lamar Underwood (Editor)

"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told, anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading." -The Lexington County Chronicle
The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told is sure to ignite recollections of your own angling experiences as well as send your imagination adrift. In this compilation of tales you will read about two kinds of places, the ones you have been to before and love to remember, and the places you have only dreamed of going, and would love to visit. Whether you prefer to fish rivers, estuaries, or beaches, this book will take you to all kinds of water, where you'll experience catching every kind of fish.
Read on as some of the sport's most talented writers recount their personal memories of catching bass, trout, bluefish marlin, tuna, and more. You'll read about all kinds of fish, and all kinds of fishermen in these pages. Explore the Pacific with Zane Grey, as he fights a 1,000-pound blue marlin, or listen as
A. J. McClane explains just what it really means to be an angler. Take a step back in time when you read Ernie Schwiebert's tale of fishing a remote lake in Michigan, when he was still only a young boy. Each of these stories, selected because of its intrinsic literary worth, reinforces the unique personal connection that fishing creates between man and nature.

277 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Tyler Dennis]

This might as accurately have been titled, “The Second Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told.” The intos to many of them concede that better, more popular works by the author are compiled elsewhere. He missed the mark completely with Hemingway, and there is precious little by way of the humor writing fishing has produced. It skews pretty heavily toward fly fishing. All that said, some of these are spellbinding. I won’t read it again, but it was worth one trip through it.

[Jeffrey]

Wonderful collection of fishing stories that run the gamut; from panfish and lowly trouts to 1000 pound blue marlin. Lyons Press has the fishing literature game covered. I highly recommend.

[Lex]

This was overall a pretty good book. Out of all the stories compiled within it I found, "Fishing the Run," to be my favorite. I thought that the majority of the stories were very interesting while a small group of them could have been left out. (This could just be because of my different fishing tastes). It was well written though. I plan on picking it up when I have nothing to do and re-read some of the stories in it. Overall, I would say this book was pretty good and a great counterpart to Lamar Underwood's Hunting book titled "The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told."

[Mike]

Picking out stories for an art event, I found many of these to be great. Many of them are so-so. Fishing, like baseball and golf (presumably), lends itself to literature because of all of the contemplation and solitude. It was somewhat like reading Patrick O'Brien or Tom Clancy (presumably) in that the ever-present technical details (fishing, sailing, flying a fighter jet) don't distract from the humanity inherent in the tales.