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
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
Standing in a River Waving a Stick
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
The View From Rat Lake
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
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

Death Troupe by Vincent H. O'NeilLearning To Swim by Sara J. HenryThe Peerless Seer by B.S. GibbsA Northern Light by Jennifer DonnellyThe Legend of All Wolves by NOT A BOOK
Adirondack Novels
17 books — 8 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

Robert A. Heinlein
You tickle trout by gaining their confidence, and then abusing it.
Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road

Samuel Johnson
Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson

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