The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use fishing as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. Introduced by fisherman, writer, and ex-bicycle courier Jon Day, the selection includes contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Jerome K. Jerome, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jonathan Raban, and dozens more. Read it and be hooked.