Fishings Greatest Misadventures presents 25 larger-than-life true stories covering the spectrum of fish tales, from terrifying to comical to downright bizarre. Everyday fishermen, journalists, and pros tell their stories of freak accidents, fish attacks, sabotage, pranks, getting lost at sea, idiotic decisions, eerie incidents, and other jaw-dropping calamities. This book takes you from the freshwater to the sea with stories about every form of angling, from fly-casting for trout to noodling for catfish, and big game sport fishing to casting for the unknown.

A humorous collection of true short stories written by a female Boston transplant now living in the northern Michigan great outdoors. This book promises a lot of laughs about outdoor misadventures. Interwoven in the tales are humor, mischief, and a few life lessons. Join the scene as the author describes the crisp morning air and the serenity of surrounding woodlands on an ice fishing outing. Picture Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge as its twin white towers stand tall, welcoming visitors to the Upper Peninsula. Put yourself among the crowd of the local pub waiting to view the braggart's trophy fish, which unfortunately was eaten by the neighborhood wild cats! The author intertwines misadventure in the great outdoors with an appreciation for nature, putting readers in another scene while also leaving them with a laugh or two along the way.The author will donate $1.00 of her proceeds to fight Multiple Sclerosis. By purchasing this book, you have joined the author in fighting this disease.

For close to 40 years, Steve Orndorf and his brother, Dave, have traveled to the jungles of South America in the pursuit of adventure and trophy fish. While the fishing hasn t always been productive, there s been no shortage of adventures. Journeying through seven countries, they ve encountered logistical nightmares, hostile Indians, and a host of intimidating creatures piranhas, electric eels, poison dart frogs, vampire bats, caimans, freshwater rays, snakes, bullet ants, and more. The richly biodiverse Amazon and Orinoco River basins have served as backdrops for most of these trips. Here, a brief walk in the jungle can expose one to an astonishing array of different species, more perhaps than would be revealed in a month of walking in most parts of North America. For the Orndorf brothers, sportsfishing has opened the door to exploring this magnificent region, truly one of our planet s last remaining frontiers

Readers will learn everything they need to know to join in the deep-sea fishing adventure safely and successfully and land a big one. The necessary equipment, clothing, gear, tackle, techniques, etiquette, procedures, and safety precautions are all detailed, as is the incredible range of saltwater fish that can be pursued on the ocean.

The Bear River rises in the high Uinta Mountains and flows through Wyoming, Idaho and Utah before emptying into the Great Salt Lake. Within the watershed are scores of secluded trout streams, dozens of reservoirs and one of North America's largest populations of native cutthroat trout. Angler and author Chadd VanZanten offers a compelling portrait of the most extraordinary fly-fishing destinations you've never heard of. It's also a story of embattled but resilient ecosystems, warring factions of the American West, a dash of San Francisco counterculture, cataclysmic upheavals of the planet itself and, of course, pursuing big, elusive trout.

For close to 40 years, Steve Orndorf and his brother, Dave, have traveled to the jungles of South America in the pursuit of adventure and trophy fish. While the fishing hasn’t always been productive, there’s been no shortage of adventures. Journeying through seven countries, they’ve encountered logistical nightmares, hostile Indians, and a host of intimidating creatures—piranhas, electric eels, poison dart frogs, vampire bats, caimans, freshwater rays, snakes, bullet ants, and more. The richly biodiverse Amazon and Orinoco River basins have served as backdrops for most of these trips. Here, a brief walk in the jungle can expose one to an astonishing array of different species, more perhaps than would be revealed in a month of walking in most parts of North America. For the Orndorf brothers, sportsfishing has opened the door to exploring this magnificent region, truly one of our planet’s last remaining frontiers.

Surfing's Greatest Misadventures contains thirty of themost engaging, humorous and unbelievable stories ofsurfing life from the past fifty years. Culled fromhundreds of submissions, the non-fiction stories selectedfor this one-of-a-kind collection run the gamut from theterrifying to the comical to the downright bizarre. Thestories ......

The inimitable author of the hugely popular Crosscurrents and River Music, whom Kirkus called "one of the finest nature writers in print," comes back with a third hilarious and observant opus on the nature of knavery in the sport of fly fishing.

Along with ice fishing, bowfishing is one of the most unique, unfamiliar, intriguing, and poorly understood forms of angling. Dispensing with rod, reel, and bait altogether, this sport connects its practitioners to the most ancient and primal roots of humanity, when food was earned through the skillful use of bow and arrow. Bowfishing appeals to traditionalists and seems quite exotic, but its popularity is on the rise. Readers drawn to a more extreme and pulse-racing form of fishing will find everything they need to know here—all the equipment, licensing, clothing, gear, safety precautions, and specialized techniques and strategies necessary for a successful day stalking the waters is included. A fascinating and viscerally compelling combination of fishing, hunting, and archery, this sport provides a rare thrill. And this is the perfect guide to take along on the adventure.

Be forewarned - Jack Hemingway's wonderful new memoir of his life as an incorrigible sportsman is not a how-to book, nor a guide to secret places, though there is plenty of expertise and uncharted territory to be discovered here. Jack's seasons of a sportsman begins appropriately in the spring, at a dude ranch in Clark's Fork Valley, near the Yellowstone River. As an awkward six-year-old threading caught grasshoppers on old wet worn flies his father Ernest had discarded, Jack found his lifelong passion much in the same way his father had so many years earlier as a child on Walloon Lake. His summer would bring steelhead on the North Umpqua, fishing with Papa's newly christened Christ Pants that enabled him to walk on the water, and looking for trout along the Danube in the aftermath of World War II. Fall brings expeditions to the steelhead-laden tributaries of the Snake River, fishing for Atlantic salmon, along with time for reflection and Jack's fervent belief that there is always something new to learn.