"A moving collection of over 70 first-person accounts that describe the love of flyfishing and recall that one catch of a lifetime"--

Trout -- Rain Blind / Val Kropiwnicki -- Fishing with Jim / Peter Heller -- Initiation / Callan Wink -- Brookie / Connelly Akstens -- Staying Late / John N. Maclean -- Whoppers / Peter Kaminsky -- A Magic Nymph / Mary Rolland -- I Made It Myself / Peter Kaminsky -- Rematch / Al Caucci -- No Expectations / Linda Leary -- Right on the Money / Conor Sullivan -- T-Boned / Rachel Finn -- Pets in a Pool / Stephen Sautner -- A Moment / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- May I Have This Dance? / Paige Wallace -- Atlantic Salmon -- Just This Side of Despair / Tarquin Millington-Drake -- Landings / Monte Burke -- Gratitude / Cathy Newman -- September's Child / David A. Van Wie -- Generations / Peter Kaminsky -- Part 1: The Blackfoot: The Dad / George Semler -- Part 2: The Blackfoot: The Daughter / Hannah Semler -- Alex and His Grandma / Joan Wulff -- Breaking the Spell / Jorge Trucco -- Steelhead and Pacific Salmon -- Chock-Full / William Sisson -- Folie à Trois / Jason Rolfe -- Her Salmon / Mark Kurlansky -- Once Upon a River / Emerald LaFortune -- Lost River / David James Duncan -- Dry Fly -- Sulphurs / Joel R. Johnson -- Drakes in the Afternoon / Matthew L. Miller -- There for the Hatch / Hilary Hutcheson -- Drakes on a Lake / Lou Zambello -- Have Rod, Will Travel -- Son of the Sun God / Kirk Deeter -- Holy Water / Gay Barclay -- Beijing Amazing / Henry Hughes -- Carp Fishing, Beijing, 1995 / Henry Hughes -- And on the Fourteenth Day . . . / Jared Zissu -- Probing the Unknown / Marcelo Gleiser -- After the Show / Brittany Howard -- Dung Gazing in the Amazon / Charles Gaines -- My True Confession / Buby Garcia Calvo -- Grand Slams -- New Cal Bones / Charles Rangeley-Wilson -- How Big Was He? / Roger Waters -- Carry That Weight / Carl Hiaasen -- A Missed Opportunity / David DiBenedetto -- Chico and Me / Flip Pallot -- They Might Be Giants / Keith Rose-Innes -- What a Difference Twenty Pounds Makes / Paul Bruun -- Inshore -- A Backcast on the East End / Sam Sifton -- A Fishy Day / Thomas McGuane -- Green Lightning / T. Edward Nickens -- Hunting the Blue Rhino / Paul Dixon -- Bull / Howell Raines -- Lazaretto Reds / Amir Mughal -- Big Game -- In the Baja / Tom Colicchio -- Attitude / Tom Gilmore -- Bluefin / John McMurray -- Blue Marlin on the Fly / Pat Ford -- Nightmares -- A Pike / Rachel Maddow -- Boundary Windfalls / Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate -- Impossibly Violent and Savagely Fast / Steve Duda -- Wake-up Call / Ilya Sherbovich -- Forty Years Later / Marcelo Morales -- First Rodeo / Bob White -- Bass -- Noble Survivor / Roger Emile Stouff -- Demise of the Northwoods Bistro / David Coggins -- Hugger / W. D. Wetherell -- Mrs. B's Sacred Carp / Josh Greenberg -- As Long as I Can See the Light -- Then the Rains Came / Katie Cahn -- Outside of Time / William Hereford -- At Navajo Lake / Kaitlin Boyer -- x Redemption / Seth Norman -- Flesh and Blood, and Flyfishing / Matt Smythe -- Masters -- Daily Double / John McPhee -- My First Salmon / Nick Lyons