The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told

By: Nick Lyons

Narrated by: Kerry Woodrow

The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fish at many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over the world. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recounted by great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praise the trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fisherman's song! This superbly presented collection of fishing stories will set the listener sailing on the Loch or along the Thames and tracking down sharks or carp in many exciting waterways.

You will find memories, essays, true stories, and fishing accounts more or less exaggerated or imagined. Their authors and their editor, Nick Lyons, all share a communicable passion for a great day out fishing—a passion only surpassed by the love of telling the tale with or without the catch to show!With work by more than one hundred of the world's most eminent authors and fishermen, including John McPhee, Howell Raines, Ted Leeson, Jimmy Carter, Lefty Kreh, Dave Barry, Norman Maclean, and Rudyard Kipling.

©2010 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Foreword copyright 2010 by David Halberstam (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Text is good, narration is boring

The history of fishing hooks, flies, and other equipment, as well as, the anecdotes and stories of people’s fishing adventures was quite enjoyable. This book was released in print and includes photos which are referenced in the text, but can’t be seen in the audio format. That takes away some enjoyment from the beginning chapters as you want to see the ancient hooks and traps in the photos.
The narration is stiff, dispassionate, and lacking any conversational tone or realism. It’s quite clear the narrator was reading something unfamiliar, uninteresting, or both. There are some annoying mispronunciations such as not pronouncing the name, crappie, properly as “croppy”. It gives the sense of being read for the first time and not as if the narrator read the book, then imagined how the conversations in the book might have actually occurred and tried to bring it to life. The narrator attempts to do come accents, e.g. chap 16, and they’re really terrible. Sadly, I couldn’t even finish that chapter because of it. The stories early in the book are from antiquity, e.g. Ancient Rome, and move through the centuries. So the sentence structure is already awkward in many passages. It really takes pre-reading the stories to grasp the event before reading them in a conversational tone. The narrator failed to deliver on this. It made the entire book tedious to listen to, hard to follow, and unnecessarily boring. This one is better read in print.

Great book for insomniacs

Written in such a way as to totally or any interested fisherman. The old style is fine but when read on audible should at least have some life in the force.

Title. Flyfishing

Almost all the stories are about flyfishing if that’s what you’re looking for this would be great book to listen to if you’re looking for all different types of fishing this is not the book for you. It should be titled and 95% flyfishing and a couple other stories