Great Angling Disasters

Freelance journalist and author Tom Quinn has written for a number of national magazines and newspapers including the Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail. He was formerly Assistant Editor of Trout & Salmon magazine and editor of The Countryman. He has published more than thirty titles including The Perfect Cast and most recently, Cat Tales (978-1-84689-229-5) and Barking Mad (978-1-84689-209-7).

Introduction
1: Overwhelmed and Underplayed
Caught in the Flies
Caught in a Drain
A Fortune Lost
Mystery Fish
The End of the Legendary Grayling
2: Bamboozled
Floundering
No Luck in Ireland
Rotten Line
American Escapades
Monster Mahseer
3: Making Mischief
Conger Attack
Lost Beneath the Lilies
Death at the Trows
Fishing Not Marrying
Tyne Wave
Pike Escape
4: A Little Local Difficulty
Abandoned by the Goddess of Fishing
That Old Line!
Mud in Your Eye
The Road to Hell …
Down a Hole
Vicar on the Run
Acrobatic Fish
Double Trouble
Eels and Ears
Flying Sea Trout
Torn to Shreds
Salmon Tied in Knots
The Weed Not the Man
An Endless Dive, and Then Rain
Inglorious Piking
5: Head Over Heels
The Great Unseen Bass
‘I am Afraid it is a Shark’
Shark Bait Tarpon Lokoja, West Africa, 1914
6: Missing the Point
Bovine Battle
Just One Thing After Another …
Triumph, Then Tragedy
7: Tragic Muse
Mad About Pike
Fish Attacks Boy
Double Disaster
Tackle Dancing Bull
Night Manoeuvres
Fit for an Emperor
Eighty Pounder Lost
Clouded in Myth
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