The One That Got Away: Or Tales of Days When Fish Triumphed over Anglers - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1910723029 ISBN 13 : 9781910723029

Editeur : Merlin Unwin Books, 2015

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'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. Laurence Catlow learns to come to terms with loss.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Merlin Unwin Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910723029
• ISBN 13: 9781910723029
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160