01773oam 2200313z- 450 991015944310332120210111155720.01-4930-2506-6(CKB)3710000001018965(MiAaPQ)EBC4786365(VLeBooks)9781493025060(EXLCZ)99371000000101896520190428c2016uuuu -u- -engur|||||||||||Fish on, fish off: the misadventures and odd encounters of the self-taught anglerLyons Press1 online resource (176 p.)1-4930-3694-7 1-4930-2505-8 Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson's 'A Walk in the Woods'. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world - and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way. These include: getting chased from a river by an elephant, surviving a terrifying helicopter ride over the Straits of Magellan, and breaking his only rod on the second cast in Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Closer to home, he is swept off a jetty on Block Island by a rogue wave, winds up in an emergency room more than once with fishing lures hanging from various parts of his anatomy, and perhaps most daunting, surviving 30 years of the scrum better known as opening day of trout season in his crowded home state of New Jersey. If Upriver and Downstream showed the poetry of angling, Fish On, Fish Off shows the scars.FishingFishing799.12092Sautner Stephen1247137BOOK9910159443103321Fish on, fish off2891366UNINA