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Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous 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 mussel - containing no less than forty pearls - and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years. Fishing's Strangest Days is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have have you caught hook, line and sinker. Word count: 45,000
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Tom Quinn is a journalist, juggler, orange peel collector and expert on Victorian fish painters, who spends much of his time travelling round Britain looking for quirky subjects to write about. He has written five titles in the best-selling Strangest series. Tom also writes occasional obituaries for The Times and edits Country Business magazine.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A nice collection of varied stories including one about two policemen who went to dig up wasp's nests to collect larvae for bait and were trapped in a mud slide, with only their heads above the surface, and stung to death by whe wasps. Well worth a read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Always hard to buy books for fisherman. These short stories provide a variety of strange tales that most anglers would find interesting.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you enjoy unusual stories or you are just a plain fishing fanatic you will like this book. Many of the stories have an amusing twist to them whilst others are rather amazing accounts of peoples experiences of wherever they happened to be fishing at the time.
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Don't know about content of the book because I gave it as a gift and he hasn't started reading it yet. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Kate in Bath
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I got this product as a gift for my Granda who is very much into fishing and he totally loved it. It is made up of short stories and he said it was very interesting and made for... Read more
Published 3 months ago by nicola
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i bought this as a christmas present for my dad. he's been a fisherman for over 30 years and likes these types of things. i know he'll love it.
Published 5 months ago by L. V. Andrews
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