A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries
of fishing through a series of "what-if" stories: What if someone
discovered a fly that worked on every cast? What if we could fish
anywhere, any time in the distant past? What if we could explore the
fishing on a different planet? What if our sport's leading thinkers
suddenly decided that an infamous trash fish was really cool and a great
sporting trophy after all? A Fish Come True answers these and other
engaging questions in stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor,
and--most important of all--hope. In this remarkable array of stories, a
tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to
historical mystery to faux press release to science-fiction adventure,
Schullery honors the angler's innate and precious need to hope. And in
the midst of this lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards
and deeply satisfying misadventures that arise from the fulfillment of
our angling dreams.