FISHING'S STRANGEST DAYS: EXTRAORDINARY BUT TRUE STORIES

FISHING'S STRANGEST DAYS: EXTRAORDINARY BUT TRUE STORIES From dead-sheep bait to whopper-sized catches ("It was this big!"), intoxicated trout, & flying pike, this collection presents the choicest gems of bizarre fishing facts. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvelous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how about the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large musselcontaining no less than 40 pearls& managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years. Then theres the case of the two Americans who had an argument about whether it would be possible to cast a fly from the roof of the Savoy hotel into the Thames. The dispute was finally settled when one of them secured himself to a chimney, &, with the help of a policeman who stopped traffic on the Embankment, finally achieved the feat. Fishing's Strangest Days is like a tin of sardinespacked with fishy, bite size tales guaranteed to have you hooked!ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Tom Quinn is the author of 12 books, including Angling in Art, London's Strangest Moments, Shootings Strangest Days, & Wings over the World: Tales from the Golden Age of Britain's Airlines, & the editor of Country Business magazine. ISBN: 1-86105-535-8 publish date: 02/09/2010