The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-fishing Festival and Other Western Stories


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Tom Bishop's collection of stories is divided into slices of time and takes place in the northern Rocky Mountains. The earliest story is set during a brutal winter in which the men of a Lakota clan follow a vision of an elk herd to find meat to save their starving family. The next group of tales take place one hundred years later, in the early twentieth century. A country storekeeper uses defanged rattlesnakes to guard his business; dealings with a bootlegger cost a man his friends, his home, and his job; and deer hunters at the height of the Great Depression go out in search of "Hoover Steaks." At the end of World War II, an illegal quail hunt costs the host rancher over a thousand dollars when a hunter is killed and his widow demands restitution. In "The Fragile Commandment" an abusive farmer is killed by his stepdaughter with a pitchfork, and "Someone's Dog" is the story of a trout fisherman who finds a dog by his favorite stream. The title story, "The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival" involves trout fisherman who want to bring in enough money through their festival to pay for a weekend fishing party. Regardless of the time period, the people, situations, dilemmas, and problems found in these stories replicate those of the twenty-first century.




The Great Fishing Contest


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After painstaking preparations with his friend Sammy, Jason enters the big fishing contest and follows a plan to discover where the biggest fish in the pond are hiding.




Bass Wars


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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. author bio box: please use author bio from author info page book description box: Angling for fame and fortune in big-league bass fishing. Bass Wars vividly portrays one full and fascinating year in the high-stakes, high-pressure sport of professional bass angling. "Truly fine writing about the sunburned rigors and unexpected dangers of competitive bass fishing."—Atlanta Journal Constitution




Largemouth Bass


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Features tips from today's most successful bass pros. -- Amazing photography of largemouth bass in their natural habitat.




Field and Stream


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The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!


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On the surface this book spins a fisherman's tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan who defies his own macho stereotype. All professional writers, the men have met every autumn for eighteen years at the Big Arsenic Springs on the Río Grande to fly-cast for trout and argue about life, literature, marriage, and eco-Armageddon. Their escapades reveal a spirited paean to a beautiful river gorge, and also a poignant cautionary fable about male friendship and cutthroat competition. As aging cripples them all, tragedy mars the tournament. In this insightful and bittersweet love story, masterful storyteller John Nichols brings to life northern New Mexico and three unforgettable characters.




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Outing Magazine


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