Introduction
The salmon spirit: an Ulchi tale from Siberia / Nadyezhda Duvan
The Legend of Jiang Taigong / Anonymous
The dream carp (1769) / Ueda Akinari
The angler (1820) / Washington Irving
Two friends (1882) / Guy de Maupassant
Albion's daughter (1883) / Anton Chekhov
Fishy (1889) / Jerome K. Jerome
Dry-cow fishing as a fine art (1890) / Rudyard Kipling
I've got your tuna, sir (1909) / Charles Frederick Holder
The angler's end (1919) / Svend Fleuron
Landing of the record Tay salmon (1922) / Georgina Ballantine
Battle with a giant ray (1924) / F.A. Mitchell Hedges
The river god (1928) / Roland Pertwee
The first thousand-pounder (1930) / Zane Grey
from The Garden of Eden (1946-1961) / Ernest Hemingway
The children's bear (1946) / Roderick Haig-Brown
A little short of the record (1951) / Elizabeth Enright
Nobody said anything (1973) / Raymond Carver
On the divide (1974) / Nick Lyons
from A river runs through it (1976) / Norman Maclean
The wer-trout (1982) / Annie Proulx
Fishing with my daddy (1988) / Jimmy Carter
Abe Lincoln fished here (1990) / Lin Sutherland
Harvests (1994) / Ted Leeson
First native (1994) / David James Duncan
Waiting for a miracle: a Jew goes fishing (1999) / Marjorie Sandor
The longest silence (1999) / Thomas McGuane
Wash and tope (2006) / Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Their ancient, glittering eyes (2006) / Ron Rash.