The One That Got Away

Or tales of days when fish triumphed over anglers

Various (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2015 | New edition
Merlin Unwin Books (Verlag)
978-1-910723-02-9 (ISBN)

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In this collection of essays, famous angling writers share their experience of a lost fish which has haunted them all their lives - and in the process they reveal a great deal about the nature of loss itself, and how the human spirit endures it. True tales from Jeremy Paxman, George Melly, Chris Yates, Laurence Catlow and others.

‘The one that got away’ is the best-known phrase in fishing. Every angler has at least one story of being outwitted by a huge fish. A refrain of the angler, a taunt from those who live with them: it neatly sums up the way in which anglers are obsessed with the fish they almost caught. Yet to hear a fisherman tell the story of an escapee leviathan is to gain a great insight into why he fishes in the first place and why his sport is the most popular in the world.

This is a collection of original stories from well-known angling enthusiasts and writers. They tell of unforgettable fish hooked and lost, of glimpsed monsters which haunt the imagination and draw the narrator back to a particular river or lake, time and again, in search of a re-match.

David Steel loses his first-ever salmon after an epic struggle on the Ettrick; George Melly is upstaged by a giant Usk brown trout; Jeremy Paxman describes a fishing trip Sri Lankan style; Max Hastings is punished for being blasé and Bernard Venables – extending the definition of ‘fish’ – relates a thrilling but tragic whaling adventure in the Azores. Chris Yates, former holder of the British carp record, tells of his close encounter with an even bigger carp; David Profumo is humiliated by a 400lb shark; Brian Clarke has his angling life marked by a monster pike and Conrad Voss Bark actually helped his fish get away.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.9.2015
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Shropshire
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	432 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
ISBN-10	1-910723-02-9 / 1910723029
ISBN-13	978-1-910723-02-9 / 9781910723029
Zustand	Neuware