Just Fishing Talk
The catching of fish, said the Sage of Chocoloskee, is but an incident in fishing. He told the frozen truth. To be out in the open where fish are; to watch them at their great business of living; to see them in the water or out of the water; to fish for them, and even to hook them and have them get away-all this is wonderfully worthwhile-wonderfully better worthwhile than merely to catch and keep the stiffening fading body of one of the most beautiful forms of life.

Gifford Pinchot, twice governor of Pennsylvania and America’s premier fisherman presents twenty-three personal experiences in story form.
From the mountain streams of Pennsylvania to the scented isles of the South Seas, the author weaves a magic web of angling enchantment.
Just Fishing Talk is ideal armchair entertainment for every man or woman who loves the outdoors.
If you are one of those who revel in the tang of salt spray or the fragrance of mountain pin and fern—if you can think of no thrill greater than the swift surge of a hooked fish—you will treasure this book.
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Just Fishing Talk
The catching of fish, said the Sage of Chocoloskee, is but an incident in fishing. He told the frozen truth. To be out in the open where fish are; to watch them at their great business of living; to see them in the water or out of the water; to fish for them, and even to hook them and have them get away-all this is wonderfully worthwhile-wonderfully better worthwhile than merely to catch and keep the stiffening fading body of one of the most beautiful forms of life.

Gifford Pinchot, twice governor of Pennsylvania and America’s premier fisherman presents twenty-three personal experiences in story form.
From the mountain streams of Pennsylvania to the scented isles of the South Seas, the author weaves a magic web of angling enchantment.
Just Fishing Talk is ideal armchair entertainment for every man or woman who loves the outdoors.
If you are one of those who revel in the tang of salt spray or the fragrance of mountain pin and fern—if you can think of no thrill greater than the swift surge of a hooked fish—you will treasure this book.
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Just Fishing Talk

Just Fishing Talk

by Gifford Pinchot
Just Fishing Talk

Just Fishing Talk

by Gifford Pinchot

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The catching of fish, said the Sage of Chocoloskee, is but an incident in fishing. He told the frozen truth. To be out in the open where fish are; to watch them at their great business of living; to see them in the water or out of the water; to fish for them, and even to hook them and have them get away-all this is wonderfully worthwhile-wonderfully better worthwhile than merely to catch and keep the stiffening fading body of one of the most beautiful forms of life.

Gifford Pinchot, twice governor of Pennsylvania and America’s premier fisherman presents twenty-three personal experiences in story form.
From the mountain streams of Pennsylvania to the scented isles of the South Seas, the author weaves a magic web of angling enchantment.
Just Fishing Talk is ideal armchair entertainment for every man or woman who loves the outdoors.
If you are one of those who revel in the tang of salt spray or the fragrance of mountain pin and fern—if you can think of no thrill greater than the swift surge of a hooked fish—you will treasure this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811766548
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication date: 09/15/2017
Series: Stackpole Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 238
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

Yesterday 9

A Bum Story 14

Chocoloskee 34

Pelican Bay 46

Two's Company 54

Sea Bat and Whale Iron 61

Fifty Years Ago 71

Under the Birds 76

Anecdotage 90

From Pickles to Molasses 94

When the Dry Fly Was New 107

The Sharks of Bone Key 115

Solomon in Scales 123

Just Fishing Talk 137

A Front Seat at a Whale 145

Pickerel on a Plug 151

Porpoise Steak: part I 155

Part II 167

Part III 178

Tree-Climbing Angle Worms 190

Marlin at San Clemente 202

What Would You Rather Do? 209

Cod Liver Oil 213

Cape Lookout 220

Time Like an Ever Rolling Stream 233

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