Best Fishing Story ever told

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What is the best Angling story ever .
For me it is the Old Man and the Sea. by Ernest Hemingway.
However if there is a good tale that I have missed I would love to know about it.
 
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Hi Bleak,

As a one off 'story', the best I have ever read, easily! Debatable if it is an Angling story ( the art of fishing with a rod and line ) but a truly great fishing story.

Best angling book? Another question and an other answer.

For me, Casting at The Sun.

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Mr Yeats autobiography, casting at the sun.
In my mind it has no rival and is the most captivating book I have ever read!
Alas, I sold my signed medlar copy a few years ago when I needed the cash, It is the only item that I got rid of, inc all the tackle, that I really regret selling.
I still have signed copies of angling books, inc some of Chris Yeats and I intend to hold on too them!

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stu_the_blank said:
Hi Bleak,

As a one off 'story', the best I have ever read, easily! Debatable if it is an Angling story ( the art of fishing with a rod and line ) but a truly great fishing story.

Best angling book? Another question and an other answer.

For me, Casting at The Sun.

Stu
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Yes Casting at the Sun was a good read,but not a one off 'gripping yarn'. I will look out for The Art of Fishing with Rod and Line. As a Diary of tales I enjoyed John Bailey's 'Reflections from the waters edge'
 
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"Big Edgar the eel" told by Ernie Parlour of Tattershall in Lincolnshire a local racontour of some renown back in the late fifties up to around the late seventies.
He had you on the edge of your seat telling that story.
 
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Try 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.' A rattling good tale.
 
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How about 'red letter days' lots of individual stories from great anglers each one will get you out on the bank.
 
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Sid Little said:
How about 'red letter days' lots of individual stories from great anglers each one will get you out on the bank.
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I really liked that book too. Nice and simple and very easy to read.

As a kid of about 8 or 9 years old I remeber we had a book in the school libary called "the whopper" I read it a few times...I think this has now gone on to become one of the real collecters items. The story was basically about a kid who goes on to catch a record Carp but it gets rolled back before it was killed.

Maybe someone can clarify if this is indeed the BB (?) book that has since become so valuable..
 
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Tarka the Otter . . . love that bit where his mum is teaching him to fish . . .


Tin hat on and diving for cover.
 
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