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FishHead Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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In his most personal book to date, Dennis Dauble shares the events and people that shaped his love for wild trout and the streams of Oregon's Blue Mountains. Chasing Ghost Trout is a rollicking ride through five decades of heartfelt memories that show how the spirit of family and a love of nature can carry us through life. Dauble entertains with stories that encompass encounters with wood ticks, a first steelhead, cleavage from heaven, sibling rivalry,...
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
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A humorous collection of true fishing tales shares the author's experiences of navigating through a mercurial storm as well as the yarns of Portland, Maine, fishermen about their funniest experiences, biggest fish, and wildest nights.
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Publisher
Caxton Press
Pub. Date
© 2020
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English
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The mighty salmon runs that worked their way through Puget Sound each season on their way to British Columbia's Fraser River provided a way of life for fishermen in the Pacific Northwest for more than a century. Commercial gillnetters and purse seiners pursued millions of Sockeye salmon each season hoping to harvest a portion of the massive schools of fish that migrated through the region each season. It was demanding, and often dangerous work, but...
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Español
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Todo en Santiago es viejo, a excepción de sus ojos invictos. El anciano pescador lleva ochenta y cuatro días sin conseguir presa. Pese a esto, un día decide salir solo al mar, donde un pez gigante muerde al fin el anzuelo. Una batalla decisiva se desata entre el viejo y el enorme animal. El viejo y el mar está considerado como una de las obras de ficción más destacadas del s. XX. Fue escrita en Cuba por el Nobel Ernest Hemingway y publicada...
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English
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Touch, praised as "breathtaking" (People) and "lovely…at once dreamy and riveting" (Washington Post), comes a powerful family saga steeped in the legends of the sea. Set in a lobster fishing village, The Lobster Kings introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, Cordelia Kings.
The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kings,...
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Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow, somewhere,...
12) The catch
Author
Series
Influencers volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded B & B owner and fisherman Evan Whaler--who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are 'nice.' After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fiancée...
13) Night beach
Author
Series
The seaside saga volume 8
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2019]
Language
English
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"Everything was in place for the perfect beachside gathering. Lace-wrapped jars hung from white chairs on the sand. Paper lanterns and tiki torches glimmered in the twilight evening. A rowboat draped with roses and vines waited in the wings. Love floated on the salt air. Until the arrival of a mysterious guest named Shane Bradford, a lobsterman with a tangled past in this little New England beach town. Like a sudden sea breeze, the special evening...
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English
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The most important hatches and recommended patterns, alone with key fishing techniques and the best times of year to fish each spot
Interviews with fly shop owners Bob Jacklin, Craig Mathews, John Juracek, Richard Parks, and John Bailey; writers Tom McGuane, "Wild" Bill Schneider, and The Drake magazine's Tom Bie
Best spots for Yellowstone cutthroat, westslope cutthroat, Snake River finespotted cutthroat, grayling, rainbows, cuttbows, brown trout,...
Author
Publisher
FishHead Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"These stories, drawn from a lifetime of fishing experiences, explore a range of topics anglers often don't discuss - trespassing, giving up a secret hole, losing fish at the net, competition between buddies and taking turns when on guided trips. Wile sometimes exposing what might be considered 'the dark side of angling,' author Dennis Dauble manages to both entertain and inspire anglers." -- Back cover
Series
Wicked tuna volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When bluefin stocks deplete fishing is a hard life. The most skilled fishermen set out into frigid water of the North Atlantic in hopes of catching the valuable bluefin tuna. They'll do whatever it takes to get as much as $20,000 per fish.
Series
Film Movement volume 14, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
"Haemoo depicts the harrowing events that unfold in the fog-covered seas for a fishing crew engaged in human smuggling. Award-winning actor Kim Yoon Seok stars as the struggling captain who turns to human smuggling in order to keep his fishing boat financially afloat. While transporting ethnic Koreans from China across the Yellow Sea, however, things go terribly wrong, and desperation spirals into tragedy and terror"--YesAsia.com.
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English
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"Fishing the Wild Waters invites us to traverse America and visit three distant and distinct dream destinations for any serious angler--and anyone who aspires to someday become one. Sullivan's marvelous debut illuminates the often profound nature of fishing as a vehicle that connects those who practice it with reverence to a world beyond the one humans created. As we travel along with Sullivan, he reveals what goes into the pursuit of select fish...
20) Beyond the tides
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Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 1
Language
English
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"When Meg's father decides to sell his Prince Edward Island lobster fishing business to her high school nemesis Oliver, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. But there is more than just a fleet on the line-her heart is, too"--
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