Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fishing may include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate.

The Old Man and the Sea
Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing
The River Why
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
Another Lousy Day in Paradise
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
Standing in a River Waving a Stick
The View From Rat Lake
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenWild by Cheryl StrayedThis Side of a Wilderness by Daniel J. RiceLines, Tines & Southern Pines by Corey W. JenkinsA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Best Books For The Outdoorsman
68 books — 30 voters
Argonaut The Inua Humpback by Clifford L. GionetHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterMy Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
At the Seashore
132 books — 36 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfStrangers in Skye by Mabel Esther AllanWhisky Galore by Compton MackenzieReturn to Sula by Lavinia DerwentSo Far from Skye by Judith O'Neill
Skye and the Hebrides
121 books — 7 voters

American Buffalo by Steven RinellaA Sand County Almanac by Aldo LeopoldHunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore RooseveltAnnals of the Former World by John McPheeMy Life With the Eskimo by Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
MeatEater Reading List
45 books — 6 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGrandad, There's A Head On The Beach by Colin CotterillOcean's Infiltrator by Demelza CarltonThe Golden Catch by Roger Weston
Fishermen Novels
19 books — 15 voters

Steven Wright
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Iris Murdoch
Rainborough wished that there was some way of becoming intimate with a woman which did not involve these agonizing moments of irrevocable decision. It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish—graceful, mysterious, desirable and free—and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
Iris Murdoch, The Flight from the Enchanter

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