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
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
Standing in a River Waving a Stick
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
Another Lousy Day in Paradise
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues
The View From Rat Lake
The Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserJaws by Peter BenchleyThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroHomecoming by James Faro
Best Marine Fiction Books
76 books — 38 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrPossession by A.S. ByattDeath in Brittany by Jean-Luc BannalecLucinda and the Sailor Kitten by Rosalie K. FrySacrifice by Helyn Dunn
France by Region: Brittany - Bretagne
65 books — 17 voters

Hemingway on Fishing by Ernest HemingwayThe New Advanced Custom Rod Building by Dale P. ClemensLooking Through Water by Bob RichLooking for Lucie by Ted LambAddicted to Angling by Mike Thrussell
The best books on fishing
15 books — 8 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


Ernest Hemingway
Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
Ernest Hemingway

Steven Wright
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright

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