Introduction: Oh, What a Beautiful Morning Chapter One Trout Rain Blind by Val Kropiwnicki Fishing with Jim by Peter Heller Initiation by Callan Wink The Brookie by Connelly Akstens Staying Late by John N. Maclean Whoppers by Peter Kaminsky A Magic Nymph by Mary Rolland I Made It Myself by Peter Kaminsky Rematch by Al Caucci No Expectations by Linda Leary Right on the Money by Conor Sullivan 0 T-Boned by Rachel Finn Pets in a Pool by Stephen Sautner A Moment by Verlyn Klinkenborg May I Have This Dance? by Paige Wallace Chapter Two Atlantic Salmon Just This Side of Despair by Tarquin Millington-Drake Landings by Monte Burke Gratitude by Cathy Newman September''s Child by David A. Van Wie Generations by Peter Kaminsky Part 1: The Blackfoot: The Dad by George Semler Part 2: The Blackfoot: The Daughter by Hannah Semler Alex and His Grandma by Joan Wulff Breaking the Spell by Jorge Trucco Chapter Three Steelhead and Pacific Salmon Chock-Full by William Sisson Folie à Trois by Jason Rolfe Her Salmon by Mark Kurlansky Once Upon a River by Emerald LaFortune Lost River by David James Duncan Chapter Four Dry Fly Sulphurs by Joel R. Johnson Drakes in the Afternoon by Matthew L. Miller There for the Hatch by Hilary Hutcheson Drakes on a Lake by Lou Zambello Chapter Five Have Rod, Will Travel Son of the Sun God by Kirk Deeter Holy Water by Gay Barclay Beijing Amazing by Henry Hughes Carp Fishing, Beijing, 1995 by Henry Hughes And on the Fourteenth Day . by Jared Zissu Probing the Unknown by Marcelo Gleiser After the Show by Brittany Howard Dung Gazing in the Amazon by Charles Gaines My True Confession by Buby Garcia Calvo Chapter Six Grand Slams New Cal Bones by Charles Rangeley-Wilson How Big Was He? by Roger Waters Carry That Weight by Carl Hiaasen A Missed Opportunity by David DiBenedetto Chico and Me by Flip Pallot They Might Be Giants by Keith Rose-Innes What a Difference Twenty Pounds Makes by Paul Bruun Chapter Seven Inshore A Backcast on the East End by Sam Sifton A Fishy Day by Thomas McGuane Green Lightning by T. Edward Nickens Hunting the Blue Rhino by Paul Dixon The Bull by Howell Raines Lazaretto Reds by Amir Mughal Chapter Eight Big Game In the Baja by Tom Colicchio Attitude by Tom Gilmore Bluefin by John McMurray Blue Marlin on the Fl y by Pat Ford Chapter Nine Nightmares A Pike by Rachel Maddow Boundary Windfalls by Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate Impossibly Violent and Savagely Fast by Steve Duda The Wake-up Call by Ilya Sherbovich Forty Years Later by Marcelo Morales First Rodeo by Bob White Chapter Ten Bass The Noble Survivor by Roger Emile Stouff The Demise of the Northwoods Bistro by David Coggins Hugger by W. D.

Wetherell Mrs. B''s Sacred Carp by Josh Greenberg Chapter Eleven As Long as I Can See the Light Then the Rains Came by Katie Cahn Outside of Time by William Hereford At Navajo Lake by Kaitlin Boyer 6x Redemption by Seth Norman Flesh and Blood, and Flyfishing by Matt Smythe Chapter Twelve The Masters The Daily Double by John McPhee My First Salmon by Nick Lyons Glossary Acknowledgments Child by David A. Van Wie Generations by Peter Kaminsky Part 1: The Blackfoot: The Dad by George Semler Part 2: The Blackfoot: The Daughter by Hannah Semler Alex and His Grandma by Joan Wulff Breaking the Spell by Jorge Trucco Chapter Three Steelhead and Pacific Salmon Chock-Full by William Sisson Folie à Trois by Jason Rolfe Her Salmon by Mark Kurlansky Once Upon a River by Emerald LaFortune Lost River by David James Duncan Chapter Four Dry Fly Sulphurs by Joel R. Johnson Drakes in the Afternoon by Matthew L. Miller There for the Hatch by Hilary Hutcheson Drakes on a Lake by Lou Zambello Chapter Five Have Rod, Will Travel Son of the Sun God by Kirk Deeter Holy Water by Gay Barclay Beijing Amazing by Henry Hughes Carp Fishing, Beijing, 1995 by Henry Hughes And on the Fourteenth Day . by Jared Zissu Probing the Unknown Child by David A. Van Wie Generations by Peter Kaminsky Part 1: The Blackfoot: The Dad by George Semler Part 2: The Blackfoot: The Daughter by Hannah Semler Alex and His Grandma by Joan Wulff Breaking the Spell by Jorge Trucco Chapter Three Steelhead and Pacific Salmon Chock-Full by William Sisson Folie à Trois by Jason Rolfe Her Salmon by Mark Kurlansky Once Upon a River by Emerald LaFortune Lost River by David James Duncan Chapter Four Dry Fly Sulphurs by Joel R. Johnson Drakes in the Afternoon by Matthew L.

Miller There for the Hatch by Hilary Hutcheson Drakes on a Lake by Lou Zambello Chapter Five Have Rod, Will Travel Son of the Sun God by Kirk Deeter Holy Water by Gay Barclay Beijing Amazing by Henry Hughes Carp Fishing, Beijing, 1995 by Henry Hughes And on the Fourteenth Day . by Jared Zissu Probing the Unknown by Marcelo Gleiser After the Show by Brittany Howard Dung Gazing in the Amazon by Charles Gaines My True Confession by Buby Garcia Calvo Chapter Six Grand Slams New Cal Bones by Charles Rangeley-Wilson How Big Was He? by Roger Waters Carry That Weight by Carl Hiaasen A Missed Opportunity by David DiBenedetto Chico and Me by Flip Pallot They Might Be Giants by Keith Rose-Innes What a Difference Twenty Pounds Makes by Paul Bruun Chapter Seven Inshore A Backcast on the East End by Sam Sifton A Fishy Day by Thomas McGuane Green Lightning by T. Edward Nickens Hunting the Blue Rhino by Paul Dixon The Bull by Howell Raines Lazaretto Reds by Amir Mughal Chapter Eight Big Game In the Baja by Tom Colicchio Attitude by Tom Gilmore Bluefin by John McMurray Blue Marlin on the Fl y by Pat Ford Chapter Nine Nightmares A Pike by Rachel Maddow Boundary Windfalls by Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate Impossibly Violent and Savagely Fast by Steve Duda The Wake-up Call by Ilya Sherbovich Forty Years Later by Marcelo Morales First Rodeo by Bob White Chapter Ten Bass The Noble Survivor by Roger Emile Stouff The Demise of the Northwoods Bistro by David Coggins Hugger by W. D. Wetherell Mrs. B''s Sacred Carp by Josh Greenberg Chapter Eleven As Long as I Can See the Light Then the Rains Came by Katie Cahn Outside of Time by William Hereford At Navajo Lake by Kaitlin Boyer 6x Redemption by Seth Norman Flesh and Blood, and Flyfishing by Matt Smythe Chapter Twelve The Masters The Daily Double by John McPhee My First Salmon by Nick Lyons Glossary Acknowledgments Child by David A. Van Wie