A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through a series of -what-if- stories:
What if someone discovered a fly that worked on every cast?
What if we could fish anywhere, any time in the distant past?
What if we could explore the fishing on a different planet?
What if our sport-s leading thinkers suddenly decided that an infamous trash fish was really cool and a great sporting trophy after all?
A Fish Come True answers these and other engaging questions in stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor, and-most important of all-hope.
In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to faux press release to science-fiction adventure, Schullery honors the angler-s innate and precious need to hope. And in the midst of this lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards and deeply satisfying misadv
