The Ultimate fishing book /
"The Ultimate Fishing Book" brings together nine contributors whose passion for the sport is equaled only by their passion for words. In essays commissioned especially for this book: Ernest Schwiebert reflects on the challenges of early-season trout fishing, from the fabled streams of the...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1981
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Table of Contents:
- Fisherman's seasons / Geoffrey Norman
- Trout fisherman's life in Springtime / Ernest Schwiebert
- Close call on the Brazos / John Graves
- Welcome to muskie country / Robert F. Jones
- Rolling your own farm pond / Vance Bourjaily
- Once and future Atlantic salmon / Ted Williams
- Deeds among the steelhead / Bill Barich
- Down-home bass / Geoffrey Norman
- Along the shoreline, lightly armed / Charles F. Waterman
- Getting through winter / Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
- Illustrations: Fishing scene / Arthur Parton
- Pompton, New Jersey / George Inness
- Watercolor (1980) / Francis Golden
- Casting for a rise / Winslow Homer
- Untitled oil painting on a fan blade / Winslow Homer
- Spring trout fishing in the Adirondacks : an odious comparison of weighs / Frederic Remington
- American speckled brook trout / Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
- Trout fishing (1979) / C.E. Monroe
- Barnhardt's pool (1929) / William J. Schaldach
- Professor landing a double (1863) / J.H. Cocks
- Illustration / Russell Buzzell
- End of a stiff fight (1902) / Louis Rhead
- Ouananiche fishing : Lake Saint John (1897) / Winslow Homer
- Trout fishing (1919) / George Luks
- On the feed (1924) / George Marples
- Mink pond (1891) / Winslow Homer
- Leaping trout / Winslow Homer
- Untitled etching / Robert Nisbet
- Mayfly time / George Marples
- White River turn (1929) / Phillip Little
- Untitled / Ernest Briggs
- Spey salmon pool; Trout fishing on the Test; Spring fishing on the Spey; Evening rise / Norman Wilkinson
- Kildonnan, River Helmsdale, Scotland (1980) / William Garfit
- Trout fishing on the River Usk / Norman Wilkinson
- Picarel / Frank E. Schoonover
- Pickerel fishing / Oliver Kemp
- Pike, Lake St. John (1897) / Winslow Homer
- Saturday Evening Post, April 29, 1939 cover illustration / Norman Rockwell
- Casting the fly for black bass / Louis Rhead
- Watercolor / Eldridge Hardie
- Bridge pool, the Beaverkill (1981) / Robert K. Abbett
- Casting in the shallows / Louis Rhead
- Brown trout / Thomas Aquinas Daly
- Bruce's backwater (1978) / Thomas Aquinas Daly
- September afternoon / N.C. Wyeth
- Sunset with boy fishing (1866) / George Inness
- Fishing for bass / A. Russell Ripley
- Black bass fishing / S.F. Denton
- Bewitched pool / Norman Wilkinson
- Ghillie / Norman Wilkinson
- Watercolor / Ogden Pleissner
- Angler and guide / Ogden Pleissner
- Peter / Norman Wilkinson
- Landing a salmon / Frank E. Schoonover
- Landlocked salmon waters / A. Russell Ripley
- Glover's rock, Matapedia (1980) / Robert K. Abbett
- Steelhead / Chet Reneson
- Steelhead fishing, Klamath River / Richard Schlecht
- Waiting for the rise (1980) / Franklin Jones
- Jigging for perch (1978) / Thomas Aquinas Daly
- Winter village / Kent Day Coes
- Small-mouth bass / Richard La Barre Goodwin
- Leaping tarpon / William J. Schaldach
- Snook Belize / Stanley Meltzoff
- Thin gin (1978) / John P. Cowan
- On the flats (1976) / Chet Reneson
- Tarpon daisy chain / Stanley Meltzoff
- Tarpon (1975) / Francis Golden
- Tarpon / Lynn Bogue Hunt
- Christmas garland / Louis Rhead
- Trout / H.L. Driscole
- Photographs: Zane Grey
- Ernest Hemingway
- Calvin Coolidge
- Harry S. Truman
- Jimmy Carter
- Herbert Hoover
- Dwight D. Eisenhower