Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling-s -On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art- and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx-s -The Wer-Trout- to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean-s -A River Runs Through It.-
Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant-s -Two Friends,- Jimmy Carter-s -Fishing with My Daddy,- and Ernest Hemingway-s The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwee-s -The River God,- and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Grey-s -The First Thousand-Pounder- and Ron Rash-s -Their Ancient Glittering Eyes.- There are works that confront head-on the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuane-s meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing in -The Longest Silence- to Raymond Carver on a boy-s deflated triumph in t
