Fishing Fiction Books Directory
Our Fishing Fiction Books directory has listings for the most popular Fishing Fiction 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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41st Latitude: Angling the 41st Parallel  
A Different Angle ... "Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to defy, or to wow, or to woo a man. But once the River speaks, the man becomes a superfluous distraction and a woman finds herself standing alone, in living water, defying and wowing and wooing the self. This is the moment the fly fisher is born. This beautiful birth is the heartbeat of these stories
A Listening Walk...and Other Stories A book of beautiful words describing a time and place almost gone. The outdoors comes to life with humour and tears as one remembers how things used to be, and wishes yet for things to come. This book gave me great pleasure as I read about hunting, fishing, and the spirituality of a life outside.
A Place in Mind If friendships and the outdoor life mean anything to you, you must own this book. If you liked "A River Runs Through It", get this book. The language is spell-binding and the ageless truths that Lea unfolds are worth a thousand times the price of admission to his world.
A Real Fishing Experience  
A River Runs Through It Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance....
A School of Trout - Poetry People who never grow tired of talking, thinking and dreaming about fishing. People who can take any topic of conversation and relate it to fishing. People who cherish the memories of fishing with loved ones. People who consider a perfectly placed cast to be beautiful art.
An Answer in the Tide An excellent book in the usual style of this author. a Bennett's island book. Joanna and Nils have to deal with Jamie getting older and becoming involved with a married woman on the mainland. Very happy to be visiting the island again through this book. very enjoyable.
Armchair Angler Fifty fiction and nonfiction tales for dedicated fishermen span three hundred years of writing, and include the works of Izaak Walton, Nick Lyons, Lewis Carroll, Herbert Hoover, Ted Williams, Norman Maclean, and others.
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman  
Bass Wars... The book is a third party account of a season of tournament bass fishing mostly focusing on three distinctly different full time tournament fishermen. There are the haves (Rick Clunn), the want to haves (Randy Blaukat) and the have nots (Randy Mosley). The reader is exposed to just how important sponsorship is and the monetary implications to big time professional fishing.
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
Blues The pleasures of a summer's bluefishing off Martha's Vineyard are marvelously evoked as John Hersey reflects upon the angler's art, wonders of the teeming oceans where fish and fisherman confront each other, and the web of interdependence they share. 14 drawings.
Bright Country ... Amid his mother's dying from brain cancer, the loss of his job, and a doctor's diagnosis that his case of the ``meat bucket blues'' was ``treatable'' depression, Middleton (On the Spine of Time, 1991, etc.) finds renewal in fishing the wild waters of cold mountain streams. Fired in June 1990 from a sportswriting job with the Southern Progress Corporation....
Burning the Iceberg  
Carp Fishing on Valium ... Graham Parker? The singer-songwriter behind such brilliant albums as "Howlin' Wind" and "Squeezing Out Sparks?" What's he doing writing a book? That's what I thought when I came across this book. But think about it: song lyrics are basically short stories, so why not? I was pleaseantly surprised to find a very funny, often moving, collection here.
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.
Cast from the Edge ... "Nothing prepares us for the next moment. Or it all does, if we are able to see. We have reasons for everything, and then those reasons shatter. We are utterly wrong and we start all over again. We return to fly fishing because we are certain that here, at least, the good guys always win"
Coastliners  
Corey Ford Sporting Treasury  
Curtis Creek Manifesto Sheridan Anderson, self-described "foe of the work ethic," has put together an illustrated guide to "the art of fly fishing on moving water" that one must see to fully appreciate. There is much wisdom in this introduction to a difficult sport, all presented in a large cartoon format
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
December King  
Devils Bridge I really liked this book. I was enthralled with the story of 13 year old Ben and his summer on Martha's Vineyard. His adventures with Jeff and Donny kept me reading straight to the end. The characters were great, the plot was gripping; overall, I would recommend this book.
Dog-Nose Chronicles ... Rambling, full of annoying prose tricks and sometimes just plain silly, Hauptman's debut traces the rise and fall of an Ivy League-educated outdoorsman named Westlake Coleridge "Dog Nose" Cooper, whose skills as a guide become the stuff of legend. The saga opens with Dog Nose's death
Downriver Drift I am a fan of Tim Bowling's poetry. I was a bit apprehensive about reading his first novel, Downriver Drift, after having enjoyed his poetry so much. I was not disappointed. Living in a British Columbia fishing community for 14 years, I found this book enlightening and engaging.
First Light First Light won the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award Picturebook category in 1994, but it isn't a book for small children. Gary Crew excels at writing eerie stories for boys.
Fish Tales; Stories from the Sea  
Fishing (America at Work)  
Fishing Central Oregon (3rd edition) As in earlier editions, informative and instructional "How To" sections on fishing, catch-and release, fish biology, care of fresh-caught fish, reading water and stalking, hiring a guide, use of float tubes, state fish records, and more will greatly assist the angler of any level and type.
Fishing Day  
Fishing for Clues Fishing for Clues is a mass murder mystery with a fly-fishing twist. Detective Prakash Silva is puzzled when murder victims suddenly begin to pop up in a sleepy tourist town in the Colorado Rockies. While there seems to be some connection with fly-fishing and a local fishing shop, it is unclear who the murderer is, or how he or she might be connected to angling.
Fishing for Crocodiles Fishing for Crocodiles is both a coming of age story, and a search for lost times. It defies easy classification, and is all the more interesting for that. Dramatic, funny, moving and evocative, this novel should not be missed.
Fishing for Methuselah Ivan and Olaf are best friends and fierce competitors, especially as they compete to catch the legendary fish, Methuselah, during an ice fishing contest. Methuselah can't stand their bickering and makes his own plans. Told with a strong storytelling voice, this comic tale carries a message about friendship. Crisp and dramatic watercolors are an integral part of the book's strong impact
Fishing For Piranha DeAndra DeLucca is a famous self-help star, but her life is so twisted that even the dog is in electroshock therapy. Dena Overton-Cromp is a 350lb. actress who was eaten by mutant piranha in her latest film. Morgana Tituba unclogs her toilet with druid incantations, and Randy Buckmeyer can't get Shoquita the Drag Queen to find her whip
Fishing in a Brook ... Fishing In A Brook: Angling Activities For Kids is the latest in a the Gibbs Smith series of activity books for children ages six and up. Author Lawson Drinkard shows kids how to make a pole; catch bait; cast a line; make a tackle box; fill the tackle box with bobbers, sinkers, poppers, spoons, and jigs.
Fishing in the Air 'We're going on a journey,' my father said. 'To a secret place. We'll catch the air! We'll catch the breeze!'" And indeed, one Saturday, a young boy and his father head off on a fishing trip while it's still early-morning blue-black outside. As they drive and drive, the dad points out that the street lamps glow like tiny moons--and then they are tiny moons--and that the trees look like tall green soldiers.
Fishing Summer Polluted waters and reduced fish populations are environmental disasters the world over. To help children understand what such a loss means, Canadian author Teddy Jam tells the moving story of the world, not so long ago, when the seas were full
Fishing the Sloe-Black River In Songdogs, his first novel, Colum McCann, who divides his time between Ireland and America, explores the tensions created by movement between such different worlds. The thematic thread in this collection of short stories is much the same--the longing to escape from, and the pull toward, a fixed and central point.
Fishing With Grandaddy B  
Fishing's Strangest Days: Fishing's Strangest Days: Extraordinary but True Stories from over Two Hundred Years of Angling History
Fly Fishing Can Be Fatal ... Desperate for money, Max Addams makes a deal with the Mob to rent them his Vermont fishing lodge while trying to help his friend, the mayor, extricate herself from a scandal involving politics and murder.
Fly Fishing With MacQuarrie  
Gift A twist on the classic initiation tale of a first fishing trip and its catch-and-release ending. Set somewhere in the Northwest, this fish tale sees Jimmy Joe set out in a boat with the mysterious Fish Woman, in hopes of catching a prized salmon. After landing the enormous fish, Jimmy Joe feels unsettled.
Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love.
Going Fishing ... A Story Set in Bangladesh (Wideworld Series)
Green River Virgins : And Other Passionate Anglers Among these passionate anglers are a closet fly fisher whose biological clock is ticking and a schoolgirl in Neoprenes, secretly raising coho fry. One woman struggles in denial over her impending blindness, and an old-timer gracefully accepts being crowded off his home water.
Greenlings Romance in motion: a satire-celebration of the running scene at the Marina Green, San Francisco: lust propels a drifting sailor into the mysteries of motion, after he's overwhelmed by the beauty of a red-headed runner at rest.
Guiding Elliott Robert Lee's comic creation, Donnie Phillips, is a Montana fly-fishing guide with a few issues--such as his belief that no woman should be allowed on a trout stream. Guiding Elliott is an epistolary novel that allows Donnie plenty of room to make his hilarious, misguided casts as he endeavors to pass on a little small-town wisdom to folks in the Manhattan chapter of Trout Unlimited
Gus and Grandpa Go Fishing  
Hemingway on Fishing When the taciturn hero of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" returns from the Great War, he heads straight to the northern Michigan woods to begin the process of healing. Camping along the river and fishing for trout, Nick Adams slowly retrieves the elements of a life interrupted, allowing familiar sensations to wash over him:
Illustrated Sutra of the One Hundred Parables The Illustrated Sutra of the One Hundred Parables is a 40 stories in 20 volumes children's books. Even so, they are suitable for all ages as these beautifully illustrated books are like so many illuminating lights. Brilliant as the colors of childhood, radiant as the Mani jewel, we hope these lights may be passed from generation to generation.
King of the Moon... Albert Camus said that the true writer lends a voice to those who can not speak, or write for that matter, for themsleves. Mr. Kira has accomplished this with passion and style. Let us not forget that a good book not only is a good read, and his is indeed that, but it manifests a spirit which changes the orientation of the reader. It is more than a "Baja book".
Kitaq Goes Ice Fishing  
Lessons of Fairsized Creek: 12 Ways to Catch More Trout on the Fly
Lord of the Deep Thirteen-year-old Mikey Donovan has nothing but admiration for his stepfather, Bill. An accomplished charter fisherman who works in and around the Hawaiian islands, Bill is teaching Mikey the ins and outs of his boat, the Crystal-C, and Mikey is soaking up Bill's nautical know-how faster than a sea sponge.
Lucy the Giant Lucy Otswego is a big girl who towers over just about everyone and everything in her small Alaskan town, except for her father’s horrible reputation as a mean drunk. At 15, she runs away from the cruel classmates who see her only as “the Giant,” the embarrassed adults who pity her, and the abusive father whose fleeting attentiveness is worse than his indifference. When the crew of a crabbing boat assumes she’s much older than she is and invites her to join them for the season, she thrills at the possibility of escaping her teenaged life. Buoyed by the camaraderie and support of her new shipmates, Lucy quickly masters the mind-numbing cold and backbreaking work. But when her masquerade is threatened, she learns that there are no shortcuts to growing up.
Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles  
Midnight Fish & Other Stories I picked up this book because I liked the title, and to be honest I was hoping for something more than the usual fishing stories. I was pleasantly surprised. I don't fish much, but all a person needs is a basic working knowledge of fishing, or a good imagination, to enjoy these stories.
Moss, Mallards, and Mules and ... This is a great book about Bob Bristors life while hunting and fishing and has some great stories like granfathers Geese which I thought Was the best of all the stories but I also liked Big Red Buffelhead
Ninety-Two in the Shade I could not stop reading this book. Have since read several others by McGuane and just picked up The Bushwhacked Piano. If memory serves, McGuane was one of Wallace Stegner's students in the creative writing program at Stanford years ago. Clearly, McGuane learned his lessons well
On the Spine of Time Harry Middleton had to endure hardships to find the queen mother of all trout streams in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He had to live through treacherous mountain roads, the cloud of airborne industrial toxins that shrouds the range for most of the year, an occasional blast of lightning, and, worst of all, a helping of rancid potato salad at a roadside diner.
On the Spine of Time: A Fly Fisher's Journey Among Mountain Streams, Trout, and People Reading Leaky Waders is like recalling some memorably productive afternoons on the stream with an old fishing buddy.
Reading the Water ... Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America... Required reading for the hip generation, this one-volume edition contains two novels and a collection of poetry. The comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life will recapture today's reader
Rivers of Dreams ... Fly Fishing Stories
Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Fishing Stories  
Saltwater Adventure in the Florida Keys ... As first class grunt anglers, Salty Sara and her Old Man of the Sea, floated together in foaming and mirrored waters for more than six decades, teaching countless big and little fish what's really important in this Sea of Life. They are the Aunt Sara and Uncle Joel in Saltwater Adventure, to whom Buddy's parents turn for guidance when they must move from New York to south Florida.
Seahorse : A Novel The inhabitants of a remote fishing village fear The Institute overlooking their homes and its mysterious head, Dr. Daniels, a belief that a visitor scoffs at until he begins to experience strange, inexplicable events and feelings
Seasons of the Angler Seasons of the Angler includes short stories, essays and memoirs by many of our country's most celebrated writers. Stories cover numerous forms of angling, from fly fishing for selective trout and salmon in New England and the West to bait fishing for catfish in the Southwest. When this collection first came out in 1988, the NEW YORK TIMES called it "...
Shupton's Fancy ... If you're a fly fisherman this is a must read. A masterfully written tale, light, hummorous, and thoroughly thought provoking. A great gift for the fly fisherman and or fly tier you know.
Slipping Away from Milford  
Sporting Club The Sporting Club plays out the alpha male/other guy dynamic in a really fresh funny way. Its the story of two grown young men of privilege, reunited at the sporting club in Michigan that they played and hunted at as kids. Stanton, the tough guy with the cojones collides with Quinn, the sensitive brooder.
Steel Barbs, Wild Waters  
Steelbead River Journal : North Umpqua  
Steelhead River Journal  
Striper Surf I loved this book, and have read it several times. All the sections are appropriately done and are close to perfect. The major problem I had with the book, however, is its "Locating Striper's" section. This is because only a cursory look at locating stripers was taken, meanwhile, that is the most important aspect of Surf Fishing!
Tales from the Cryptkeeper Randy finds his uncle's fishing hobby distasteful, and the fish do, too. In ""A Little Body of Work,"" a rebuilt Mustang comes to the aid of its loyal owner when the latter is challenged to a race.
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.
That's a Keeper: Reflections on Life from a Bass Fisherman
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors In The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the acquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him -- in New York's Grand Central Terminal, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida Keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains
The Fishing Hook (Learn-To-Read Series)
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing  
The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing A masterful writer. Take your time and absorb this one as you read it.
The Missing Fishing Lure: A Jason Pride Mystery
The River Why This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters.
The River Why This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters.
The Trout King: Trouble Lurks Beneath for Two Rival Fishermen Who Clash on and Off the Water, Risking What the Value Most
True Love and the Woolly Bugger I don't flyfish, but I have a close friend who does. After reading "The River Why," I got hooked on this type of book that merges good fishing stories with funny, poignant and philosophical thoughts on life. "True Love and the Woolly Bugger" is definitely one of those books. I highly recommend it to everyone...men, women, flyfishers or wannabes.
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.
Width of the Sea Earnest and closely observed, Chalfoun's second novel (after Roustabout) chronicles the lives of a small crew of fishermen and their families, who endure the demise of the fishing industry. Times are tough in the fictional New England town of Rosaline. The seas are overfished; the reconstruction of an antique schooner, the Shardon Rose, forces the fishermen off the piers
Wives of the Fishermen Angela Huth's novel probes the relationship between two women who have been friends since childhood. A tragedy occurs in their Scottish fishing village, bringing turmoil into their friendship. Projecting happiness, passion and disappointment, narrator Phyllida Law embues the story with a collection of original voices for each character and vividly paints each scene from the past and present.