Fishing Adventure Books Directory
Our Fishing Adventure Books directory has listings for the most popular Fishing Adventure Books and some hard to find titles too. Browse through the selections to find the resource that best fits your fishing needs.
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50 Years of Hunting and Fishing... Ben D. Mahaffey'd book, Fifty Years of Hunting and Fishing, will be a delight for any sportman who has stalked the "mulies" or felt the tug of a 40 lb. salmon at the end of their line. Mahaffey's experiences are both humorous and heart wrenching in this some what auto-biographical homeage to a way of life that is rapidly fading from Americana.
Adventure Is in My Blood... This book is filled with plenty of hair-raising adventures with bear, moose, wolf, and sheep; it also includes his Mexican hunting tales.
Adventure...  
Adventures of a Deep-Sea Angler  
Adventures of Woods and Seas  
Against the Tide... Like many kids fortunate enough to spend summers by the shore, writer/journalist Richard Adams Carey grew up with a healthy respect for fishermen and the sea, "a world of astonishing color and shape and texture, of surprise and a perceptible knife-edge of menace."
Alaska Blues : A Season of Fishing the Inside Pass Upton tours us through open channels and narrow fjords, past forested shorelines, tiny villages, abandoned homesteads and deserted canneries. We experience the life of the independent fisher including the lonely hours at sea, the satisfaction of a good's day catch, and the easy camaraderie of other fishers. Alaska Blues offers up an authentic tale of the Southeast Alaska landscape and a fascinating way of life.
Albie & Billy, the Skypilot and Other Stories In this book, Wayne Short tells the true stories of Alaskan characters he's known in a half century of commercial fishing in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska. The book consists of twenty-one stories of men and women involved with dramatic action, humor-and at times, violent death. It is a book you won't want to put down.
Amazing but True Fishing Stories A compilation of fishing tales contains such gems as the Frenchman who caught 590 fish in one hour and the Wisconsin boy who fished 1,262 days in a row.
An American Traveler : White, creator of the Doc Ford eco-thriller series, has produced an eclectic mix of stories with a singular, driving theme: A so-called "safe" sedentary life is as predacious as slow cancer. In this book, White demonstrates by example that the fun, the drama, the craziness of exploration.
Back Trails & Fishing Tales: Back Trails & Fishing Tales: Dave Shuffett's Outdoor Adventures
Batfishing in the Rainforest ... What Mr. White is good at is finding the unbeaten path to nowhere and teaching the reader how to follow his example.... not just an amusing collection of prose, but also a useful travel guide.
Becoming an Outdoors Woman... Founder of the nationally acclaimed Becoming An Outdoors Woman program, the author relates how she became just that: an outdoors woman. It's inspirational for those who already have outdoor experience, and offers encouragement for those getting out for the first time.
Best of Outdoor Life ... First please excuse my spelling. It's terrible. I found outdoor life's hunting stories to be very entertaining. It combined stories from todays modern day writers with some wonderfull older authors including Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway. Yes Teddy the president. However, be warned this book is not just about hunting.
Best of Zane Grey Outdoorsman For pure reading pleasure of an outdoors nature, noone can beat the wit, wisdom, and writing style of Zane Grey. I purchased this book recently and read the entire length of it in one sitting. Believe me, you won't be able to put this one down! This is a compilation of some of Grey's best work on hunting, fishing, and camping.
Blood Knot Stories This collection's 10 short stories eloquently and insightfully consider the healing powers of the outdoors and how friends, family and lovers shape a person's relation to nature. Fromm's characters come to the outdoors, fishing mostly, with enough emotional baggage to ground an airplane....
Blueback Australian writer Winton's luminous fiction has earned him much acclaim, including a Booker Prize nomination for his last novel, The Riders (1995), and his narrative powers are simply resplendent in this tale of the sea, which he calls a "contemporary fable." Abel, 10 when the story begins, lives alone on the Australian coast with his impressively self-sufficient mother.
Breakers... For fans of the Maryland writer's novel Highliners, it's about time: that novel was published a generation ago (1979, to be exact). Now Alaska fisherman Hank Crawford returns, no longer a young greenhorn. Hank's third child is on the way, he's about to buy a new boat and a new house, and he seems poised for financial security at last
Case of the Vanishing Fishhook ... Focusing on seven-year-old Omakayas, Erdrich paints a detailed portrait of Ojibwa life in the mid-nineteenth century. Along with descriptions of household tasks and customs, Erdrich crafts images of tender beauty while weaving Ojibwa words seamlessly into the text. Her gentle spot art throughout complements this first of several projected stories that will ''attempt to retrace [her] own family's history.''
Casting Far & Wide... Great Angling Adventures of the World
Chris Batin's 20 Great... Alaska Fishing Adventures
Coast Adventures  
Coco Loco ... A Treasury of Humor, Travel & Angling Adventures
Death at Devil's Bridge From the author of such fine historical fiction as Nowhere to Call Home (1999) and The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker (1996) comes this contemporary coming-of-age story set on Martha's Vineyard. Thirteen-year-old Ben is looking forward to his summer job working on a fishing charter boat, but trouble comes on the first day, when he spots a mainland kid's Porsche submerged in a bay.
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders ... There are two things no dedicated fly-fisher can really have enough of: a decent selection of flies on the stream and a decent selection of John Gierach off of it. Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders should go a good way toward satisfying the latter. In this "greatest hits" of essays culled from Gierach's previous collections....
Distant Waters Distant Waters is a big, beautiful, full-color tour of the world's greatest places to cast a fly, narrated by some of fly-fishing's best writers, including Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, and Russell Chatham. Wade the saltwater flats of Christmas Island for bonefish, stalk huge rainbows in the gin-clear rivers of New Zealand, or fish for salmon next to grizzlies in Alaska
Down in Bristol Bay ... "The frontier," writes Bob Durr, "has always been a peculiarly American obsession. In the early days it meant the possibility of a new start: if you were down on your luck ... you could head west into the unknown. But it was more than that, too...." The very existence of a frontier meant that there was a way out, an escape from the confines and corruption of civilized life.
Down to the Sea ... The Fishing Schooners of Gloucester
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed.
Fisherman's Ocean Ross clearly explains how marine science can help saltwater anglers catch more and bigger fish. The book's first and second parts describe, respectively, oceans and fish. In the final section, Ross, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, takes the scientific concepts from the first two parts and applies them to fishing for a variety of species along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf Coasts
Fisherman's Son This elegiac sea story is one of those rare narratives likely to pleasure lovers of adventure and lovers of language alike. With beguilingly modest lyricism, and great attention to detail, Michael Koepf, a commercial fisherman for 19 years, conjures up a world he knows inside and out.
Fishing Adventures in Florida Is there a cure for snook fever? “I’ve landed plenty of snook with a light bait-casting outfit. Don’t fish for snook any other way. You can cane pole ’em with heavy lines off piers and bridges, or troll for ’em. But I like to scrub the bushes and make ’em hit top-water plugs.” This was how Cal Stone introduced the author to light tackle fishing many decades ago in the waters of south Florida.
Fishing and Hunting Guide to Utah Learn how to be an expert in fishing and hunting. Also how and where in Utah. This book tells it all...secrets derived from a long lifetime of outwitting the trophies.
Fishing Arkansas ... Keith Sutton, editor of Arkansas Wildlife magazine and award-winning photographer and outdoors writer, has put together another great fishing book with a simple, effective structure. The chapters lead you through the months of the year, with multiple pieces in each chapter that suggest specific species to catch that time of year and where you'll find them in the Natural State.
Fishing Giants and Other Men of Derring Do ... Amazing Tales of Extraordinary Sportsmen
Fishing Up North ... Matsen (Faces of Fishing, Monterey Bay Aquarium Fdn., 1997) draws together some of the articles he published in magazines such as Alaska Fisherman's Journal, National Fisherman, Audubon, and Oceans to present an insider's knowledge of commercial fishing. From the slavish work of harvesting and processing to the tremendous profits that are possible but never guaranteed....
Fishing's Best Short Stories A handful of sinister characters and dark plots pepper this collection, but for the most part, these 25 tales portray fishermen as endearing folk, good humored and quick with a yarn, eager to help a novice, and famously prone to exaggerate. The scenery includes roiling oceans, still ponds, swift rivers, and bubbling brooks, and the fish themselves range from the noble trout to salmon, tarpon, bass....
Flip Flop This book is about me, Cap'n Bo. When I told the author, John Bloomfield, this tale he could't believe it but, as is much in real life, the truth is often stanger than fiction. Some of this is so outrageous, it just couldn't be made up anyway. I am a big time sportfishing captain chartering by boat in the Bahamas.
Fly Fishingest Gentlemen ... A Choice Assemblage of Fly-Fishing Adventures
Fly Tying Illustrated with his own detailed drawings, John F. McKim's ADVENTURES IN FUR, FEATHERS AND FUN introduces readers to the delicate art of fly tying. For years a workaholic, a begrudged visit with son Mark to a local hobby show changed McKim's life. Anglers will rejoice in McKim's writing and step-by-step demonstrations for fly tying.
Flyfisher's Guide to Northern New England: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine (The Wilderness Adventures Flyfisher's Guide Series)
Flyfisher's Guide to Oregon (The Wilderness Adventures Flyfisher's Guide Series)
Flyfisher's Guide to Washington (The Wilderness Adventures Flyfisher's Guide Series)
Godforsaken Sea ... The Southern Ocean is the sailor's Everest. These are unquestionably the most dangerous waters in the world: hurricane infested, frigid, wholly unpredictable, and so remote, according to Derek Lundy, that "only a few astronauts have ever been further from land than a person on a vessel in that position."
Guide and the CEO A struggling fishing guide experiences a problematic yet enlightening encounter with a difficult client in Detweiler's (Tree of Life) latest, a story about a strange battle of wills that begins when businessman Sean Boldt takes a day off from his ongoing merger negotiations to head for the Rockies, hiring Rick Tamerlin to show him the best trout spots. But their day of fun in the sun quickly turns into a mental and spiritual tug-of-war when the brusque CEO begins quizzing the guide about his life and then makes a series of judgments that set Tamerlin on edge. The judgments pertain to the guide's career path, specifically to his decision to sell a chain of successful outdoor gear stores and embark on a simple life in the wilderness. The duo's initial fishing forays prove unsuccessful, and the tension builds when they hike to a high lake to reach Tamerlin's hidden favorite spot, only to discover that the guide has forgotten the fishing gear.
Helldivers' Rodeo ... This highly entertaining read follows the adventures of a pack of New Orleans-based middle-aged crazies whose idea of "sport" is hunting dangerous fish near offshore oil rigs. The book is part Hunter Thompson "gonzo"-style tale about "kick-ass, deep-diving, monstrosity-spearing rig divers,"
Highliners McCloskey's 1979 story of a college student's initiation into the world of "highliners," the elite crews of Alaskan fishing fleets and the numerous perils they face in the frigid waters of the North, scored high marks with critics.
In Search of Moby Dick Herman Melville based his gigantic masterpiece _Moby Dick_ on fact. This is one of the most fascinating parts of that magnificent book. As mystical and symbolic as the parts and the whole may be, they are all firmly grounded in fact, in the world of nineteenth century whaling as it was.
In the Heart of the Sea ... In November 1820 the Nantucket whaleship Essex was attacked by an angry spermwhale, 1,500 miles off the coast of Peru. This is the true story that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. After the Essex sank, the 20 crew members took to the open seas of the central Pacific in three whale boats.
Incredible Fishing Stories Some 62 million people fish in America. For these people, the next best thing to fishing is swapping fish tales. Incredible Fishing Stories offers over 80 truly incredible fishing stories--world records, strange happenings, and the revenge of the fish. Author Shaun Morey traveled the world to interview anglers, boat captains, guides, and witnesses.
LA Pesca De Nessa A fine Spanish translation of Nessa's Fish (Atheneum), in which a young girl cares for her grandmother who becomes ill one night during their autumn fishing expedition. Dramatic illustrations that depict Nessa protecting their catch of fish from various Arctic animals also portray the girl's loving family, who come to the rescue in the morning.
Last Flight Out ... True Tales of Adventure, Travel and Fishing
Little Boats and Big Salmon: Fishing Adventures in Alaska  
Lone Voyager ... Like countless Gloucester fishermen before and since, Howard Blackburn and Tom Welch were trawling for halibut on the Newfoundland banks in an open dory in 1883 when a sudden blizzard separated them from their mother ship. Alone on the empty North Atlantic, they battled towering waves and frozen spray to stay afloat.
Longest Silence ... For The Longest Silence, McGuane has trolled his inventory and assembled 33 essays written over three decades. Passionate, meditative, personal, and often very funny, they are filled with fellowship and connected by his love of angling. The title piece, a certified classic in the sporting genre, chronicles his quest for the elusive permit
Lost at Sea ... In February 1983, two crabbing vessels set out from port in Alaskan waters at the peak of crabbing season. Filled to the brim with crab pots, both ships, the Americus and the Altair, were considered state-of-the-art for the industry: each only a few years old, equipped with thousands of dollars' worth of lifesaving equipment.
Mattanza : The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishing This book is very well written; it's almost poetic with the lyrical descriptions and vivid images that Theresa Maggio creates with her words. The author also eloquently captures for her readers the conflicting emotions she experienced as a modern American woman viewing unfamiliar cultural practices and dealing with an ancient Sicilian way of life. This against the backdrop of loving the people (and one man in particular) and exploring her heritage as a grandchild of Sicilians
My Place ... Glorifying in rhapsodic prose the art of hunting and killing, this book seems oddly anachronistic in an age increasingly concerned with the wanton destruction of wildlife. But the author, a founder of Bowhunter magazine, doesn't quiver from justifying his sport in 24 smug essays that romanticize his many years in the American wilds, devoted mostly to the pursuit of deer with bow and arrow.
Next Valley over ... In the world according to Charles Gaines, anglers who travel in pursuit of their craft can be classified as either pastoralists or nomads. The former enjoy holing up in their lodges almost as much as they do their fishing holes; the latter don't care much for the amenities, they just like to keep moving, to see what's biting in "the next valley over" of the title.
Nights of Ice Frantic and entertaining in a guilty sort of way, Nights of Ice is like Endurance on steroids. The book presents eight true stories of disaster and survival involving commercial fisherman off the coast of Alaska (said to be one of America's most dangerous occupations). Included are tales of subzero temperatures, 100 mph winds, 60-foot-high waves....
On the Spine of Time: A Fly Fisher's Journey Among Mountain Streams, Trout, and People Middleton makes fly-fishing a religion with its own vision of nirvana, and if it takes an occasional descent into the nether regions to attain it, the author isn't afraid to supply the grisly details.
Perfect Storm The Perfect Storm is the tale of a doomed ship caught in the middle of what some meteorologists have called the storm of the century. At its heart is a gripping narrative about struggling for survival in a tempest of ferocious winds and 100-foot waves. But rookie author Sebastian Junger does more than simply spin a good yarn.
Revenge of the Fishgod ... Angling Adventures Around the World
Saltwater Adventure ... "Saltwater Adventure in the Florida Keys" gave me the opportunity to relive some of those memorable moments. Simultaneously, it also allowed me to share my greatest "catch" Sara and Joel, who not only helped "spawn" me, but taught me the rules of the school: I could swim any stroke, anywhere, so long as I never got hooked on anything but kindness, justice, and charitable deeds
Saltwater Fishing Adventures Pro fisherman and author Dan Hernandez brings you on his saltwater fishing adventures. Learn how to catch fish from the Southern California coast to the Southern waters of Baja. He fills the pages of this book with all of his experiences, coupled with ability to bring it alive on paper. Bringing it alive not just with the written word, but with excellent photography as well.
Savage Shore ... The great white gets all the press, but the shark most feared by people around the world is the bull shark, a fish of warm seas that even penetrates fresh water, swimming up rivers and into lakes. In Nicaragua, fishermen still pursue these unusual predators by dangerous, traditional means
Sharks of Lake Nicaragua... Novelist White (The Mangrove Coast, 1998, etc.) skimmed the cream off his Outside magazine adventure-travel column for this collection of stouthearted, amusing essays. White is one game hombre who has for years stumbled forth over the boundaries of the day-to-day. Yes, he is paid to get scared witless, to go peer over the last edge and report back.
Small Fly Adventures in the West Angling for Larger Trout
Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas Zane Grey, America's master storyteller of the old West, was a passionate angler. He fished as many as 300 days of the year! This collection, first published in 1925, describes his fishing adventures in exotic locales throughout the Pacific region. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs from the author's private collection.
Tales of Swordfish and Tuna Zane Grey fished up to 300 days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish-the giants of the sea. Blue fin tuna are (even today) still sometimes pursued with harpoons! There's the story of a swordfish that was hooked at 10:30 in the morning and played until 11:30 that night-only to...!
Tales of Tahitian Waters At the time of his death more than 50 years ago, Zane Grey was one of the most popular authors in North America. While best known for his famous western novels, he spent an average of 300 days a year fishing throughout his adult life and wrote more than a dozen books on his adventures.
Tall Tales of Bow Hunting and Fishing ... and Other Cool Stuff... A ribald and entertaining series of short fictional outdoor vignettes. With decades of hunting experience behind him, the author has included hunting tips that are a must-have by experts and novices alike
The Guide and the CEO  
The Helldivers' Rodeo : This highly entertaining read follows the adventures of a pack of New Orleans-based middle-aged crazies whose idea of "sport" is hunting dangerous fish near offshore oil rigs.
The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
The World of Incredible Outdoor Adventures (Field & Stream)  
Their Fathers' Work ... A splendid, subtle portrait of the fisherman's lifefrom Hokkaido to Norway, Chile to the Java Seaby McCloskey (Highliners, 1978, etc.). After a stint in the Coast Guard, McCloskey shipped out on his first fishing vessel 20 years ago, and he has evidently been keeping notes on every voyage since, detailing the days and nights of those who pursue one of the most dangerous jobs on Earthfishing.
Top Rated Alaskan Adventures TOP RATED Alaskan Adventures; Features Top Rated Captains, Guides and Outfitters in Alaska as rated by the most qualified people --their past customers! These listings cannot be bought, they must be earned by obtaining an A- to A+ rating from unbiased extensive client surveys and polls.
Top Rated Fly Fishing, Salt & Freshwaters... Features Top Rated Fishing and Guide Services for Fly Fishing, Salt and Freshwaters as rated by the most qualified people --their past customers! These listings cannot be bought, they must be earned by obtaining an A- to A+ rating from unbiased extensive client surveys and polls.
Top Rated Freshwater Fishing... Features Top Rated Fishing and Guide Services for Freshwater Fishing as rated by the most qualified people --their past customers! These listings cannot be bought, they must be earned by obtaining an A- to A+ rating from unbiased extensive client surveys and polls.
Top Rated Saltwater Fishing... TOP RATED Saltwater Fishing (Bays, Estuaries, Flats & Offshore in North America); Features Top Rated Fishing and Guide Services for Saltwater Fishing in North America as rated by the most qualified people --their past customers! These listings cannot be bought, they must be earned by obtaining an A- to A+ rating from unbiased extensive client surveys and polls.
Trout and Beyond ... Adventures in Northwest Flyfishing
Voyagers of the Chilcotin  
Whale and His Captors ... Or, the Whaleman's Adventures, and the Whale Biography, As Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the 'Commodore Preble'
Whitecaps The Gulf waters are warm and mild, the abode of marlin, swordfish, tuna, sharks; majestic fish that give a sports fisherman the fight of his life. This is the exciting world that has sunk its hooks into Bull, a young boat captain just beginning to make his name in the business.
Working on the Edge ... Gripping, true-adventure account of crewing on deep-sea Alaskan fishing boats. In 1978, Walker arrived in Kodiak, Alaska, with $20, one skipper's name, and a determination to hook a berth on a crab boat. That year saw an unprecedented increase in the numbers of king crab on the continental shelf, boats fishing them, and prices paid at the canneries
World of Incredible Outdoor Adventures Really loved this! Some fun articles to read which brought back thoughts of trips taken long ago. Highly recommend it!
Wreck of the Whaleship Essex On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale repeatedly rammed the whaleship Essex, causing her to sink. The 20-man crew were left in three small, open boats in the middle of the Pacific with little food and only 200 gallons of water. Bereft of charts, the boats sailed due east in the hopes of sighting land. Battered by storms, the boats became separated.