The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only
about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread
use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession.
This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to
the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from
England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be
hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens,
Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more.