Incredible Fishing Stories Author:Shaun Morey, Jared Lee (Illustrator) From a grueling 37-hour fight with a Pacific salmon to the maimed fisherman whose severed thumb turned up in the belly of a Mackinaw trout. From extraordinary marlin quests to hair-raising tales of "fish catches man," here are fishing's 80 most unpredictable and spectacular tales. To get them, Shaun Morey-a fanatical fisherman and ... more »inveterate story collector-traveled from Alaska to Australia, Mexico, and the Caribbean to interview anglers, boat captains, guides and witnesses; to dig up photographs, and to confirm each tale. You'll read about Captain Jimmy Lewis who, in a moment of sheer bravado (or insanity), speared by hand-and landed-a 1,600-pound hammerhead shark. Or Bob Smith, fulfilling his twenty-year quest to catch all forty species of North America's wild trout on the bitter cold morning after his eighty-first birthday. Or the 800-pound blue marlin that made a final lunge-ripping up the deck and dragging a chair, with Paul Clause strapped in it, to the bottom of the ocean. (Paul survived; so did the marlin.) Truth is stranger than fiction.
Remarkable catches: Bear catch --
Two trophy bass on one line --
Wrestlilng a 1,600-pound hammerhead shark --
A bat on a fly --
3,001 bass in a world record 77 days --
Surfing for marlin --
Jaywalking carp --
Out of the frying pan into the fire --
Eskimo pike --
Dead body on a fly --
"Brazakka" --
Double giants --
Return of the carp --
Beaching a billfish barehanded --
Overboard with a sailfish --
The king and the kid --
Snagged by the eyelet --
Seven-minute grander --
40 out of 40: the final trout --
Tandem marlin --
Giant catfish chokehold --
75 marlin in one day --
A criminal catch, and casting for deer --
Double super grand slam --
Shark-friendly --
Throw out the catfish with the bath water --
Redeemed --
Released today, caught tomorrow --
Golden records --
The dime and the dolphinfish --
Free-gaffing a giant yellowdin --
Snagged by the swivel --
One-on-one with 815 pounds of blue marlin --
Trout frenzy --
Swordfish tug-of-war --
165-pound tuna lost and found --
Accidental catch --
Head over heels. Grueling battles: 37 hours on rod and reel --
Angler and skipper for 17 1/2 hours --
Against all odds --
The old man and the sea: relived --
Hours on the stick. Revenge of the fish: Thumbing for trout --
speared --
Rattlesnake on board --
Lucky to be alive --
Squashed by a 150-pound leaping ray --
Nose fly --
Nearly skewered --
Tuna wreck --
Wahoo attack --
Freshwater crocodiles --
Pop! Goes the dinghy --
Caught below the belt --
Bluefish attack --
Dangerous occupation --
One strong fish, beached by a traffic light --
Bull's-eye --
What goes up must come down --
Bushwhacked by whales --
Capsized capture --
Cat fish. Legends, records and myths: The world's largest steelhead --