Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art’ and Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Fishy’ to the rural gothic of Annie Proulx’s ‘The Wer-Trout’ and the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean’s ‘A River Runs Through It’. Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant’s ‘Two Friends’, Jimmy Carter’s ‘Fishing with My Daddy’ and Ernest...