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Fishing Books
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,335,113 ratings — published 1952
Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 51 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,897 ratings — published 1986
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.19 — 30,921 ratings — published 1976
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,273 ratings — published 1999
The River Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,784 ratings — published 1983
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 989 ratings — published 1990
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,505 ratings — published 1997
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,673 ratings — published 1997
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.74 — 999 ratings — published 1676
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,571 ratings — published
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 678 ratings — published 2000
Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 450 ratings — published 1996
Standing in a River Waving a Stick (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 760 ratings — published 1999
The View From Rat Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.38 — 435 ratings — published 1988
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling (Audio CD)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.09 — 817 ratings — published
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,905 ratings — published 2017
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.55 — 17,278 ratings — published 2007
Still Life With Brook Trout (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 341 ratings — published 2005
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 519 ratings — published 1992
Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.35 — 478 ratings — published 1994
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 17 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 472 ratings — published 2003
A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 536 ratings — published 2017
Fool's Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 541 ratings — published 2008
A River Runs Through It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,244 ratings — published 1976
All Fishermen Are Liars (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 703 ratings — published 2014
The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing (Little Books)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 415 ratings — published 2010
Fly Fishing Small Streams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.28 — 381 ratings — published 1989
No Shortage of Good Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 598 ratings — published 2011
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,006 ratings — published 2010
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,917 ratings — published 1999
Trout Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.29 — 196 ratings — published 1960
Bear and Hare Go Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.41 — 486 ratings — published 2014
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,947 ratings — published 2013
Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 328 ratings — published 1991
The Founding Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,235 ratings — published 2002
A River Never Sleeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.37 — 175 ratings — published 1944
All the Time in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 541 ratings — published 2023
Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.24 — 253 ratings — published 1994
The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies: Fifty iconic flies revealing fishing's evolution, regional traditions, and the craft of tying. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.16 — 243 ratings — published 2015
In a Village by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.16 — 717 ratings — published 2015
Hemingway on Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.04 — 440 ratings — published 2000
Good Flies: Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 143 ratings — published 2000
Trout Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.21 — 140 ratings — published 1974
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,892 ratings — published 1967
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.24 — 458 ratings — published 2010
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.68 — 481 ratings — published 2021
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 663 ratings — published 2020
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,287 ratings — published 2018
Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 146 ratings — published 2011
“...I'm momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is lagging behind events, as the blotchy brown mass slides up wet mud toward me, its amorphous margins flowing into the craters left by retreating feet. In the center of the yard-wide disc is a raised turret where two eyes open and close, flashing black. And it's bellowing. A loud rhythmic sound that is at first inexplicable until I realize that those blinking eyes are its spiracles, now sucking in air instead of water, which it is pumping out via gill slits on its underside. And all the while it brandishes that blade, stabbing the air like a scorpion...”
― River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away
― River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”
― The Knights
― The Knights
