The Autobiography Of A Fisherman

Author : Frank Parker Day
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802093930

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The Autobiography of a Fisherman by Frank Parker Day Pdf

With the recent selection of Frank Parker Day's 1928 novel Rockbound as CBC's 2005 "Canada Reads" winner, interest in the life and work of Day has never been greater. In 1927, Day wrote his autobiographical reflections on fishing, family, and, more broadly, humanity's place in the natural world. The Autobiography of a Fisherman is a wonderful recollection of one man's life, with characters struggling in a depressed economy, contending with the social pressures of local village life, and responding in one way or the other to the pull of the big city. Day details his early introduction to fishing, which becomes a life-long passion, at once a 'gentle art' and a 'disease'. Studying at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship ('it was easier to get one in those days'), his fervour for fishing is shared by many, but while at the University of Berlin studying Beowulf, he laments that he 'did no trout fishing.' Eventually, Day returns to Canada and is hired as an English professor at the University of New Brunswick, knowing it to be 'the centre of a well-watered district.' The reader sees him through his final episode of fishing with his father before his father dies, as well as the First World War, during which time he 'never wet a line', and beyond, as he marries, builds a family, and continues to fish. Day's reflections suggest the restorative powers of the environment and should appeal to even those readers who have never thought to sit quietly by the side of a stream, line in hand, waiting.

Author : Frank Parker Day
Publisher : New York : Minton, Balch
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Fishing
ISBN : LCCN:32013770

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The Autobiography of a Fisherman by Frank Parker Day Pdf

Author : Alfred John Pengelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : East Looe (England)
ISBN : 0906354021

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Oh, for a Fisherman's Life by Alfred John Pengelly Pdf

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Boxtree Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752213431

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Fifty Years a Fisherman by John Wilson Pdf

This is a collection of fishing anecdotes told by coarse fisherman, John Wilson. This work is full of fishing tales from a man born in Enfield, North London, who has worked as a ladies' hairdresser and merchant seaman, lived in the West Indies, and has fished in over 50 countries around the world.

Author : James Arruda Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fishers
ISBN : LCCN:2011507341

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In a Fisherman's Language by James Arruda Henry Pdf

Author : Kenneth Watters
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982297343

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The Fisherman Who Rode a Horse by Kenneth Watters Pdf

This book will give you lots of laughs most of the time and leave you scratching your head the rest of the time. It is about life in the fishing industry starting with crayfishing then trawling for prawns followed by beach seine fishing. It is about the life of a teenager going from school to fishing then becoming an electronic engineer for NASA and finally going into research in the fishing industry. Along the way he led a life filled with fun and adventure riding out cyclones at sea, also known as hurricanes, got into trouble on several occasions and closely avoided death on at least one occasion. The book follows the fishing industry over half the Australian coastline from Fremantle in Western Australia to Cairns in Queensland and life at the Carnarvon NASA Tracking Station and college then the Orroral Valley Tracking Station nestled in the snowy mountains. This is an autobiography of one who has enjoyed life to it’s fullest and married a wonderful woman. I am sure you will not be disappointed.

Author : Tom Mann,Tom Carter
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 076790995X

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Think Like a Fish by Tom Mann,Tom Carter Pdf

Tom Mann is an American original. Growing up in Depression-era Alabama, for him fishing was more than a recreational activity-it was a way of putting dinner on the table. Following his father's simple advice, "to catch fish, you have to find fish," six-year-old Tom came up with an innovative way of finding the drop-offs in a creek where fish seek refuge from predators. As a young teenager, he began to design and craft special lures, always with an eye toward tricking the freshwater dean of the deep-the largemouth bass. Tom's innate talent in outsmarting the competition above and below the waterline quickly took him from local hero to three-time world bass fishing champion to living legend. He also tapped into his skill for designing lures, building a multi-million-dollar enterprise that has sold over one billion lures to date in major sporting goods and fishing retailers around the world, all with his smiling face on the packages. Yet despite the prestige and fame of a forty-year career, he still resides where it all began-deep in the heart of the South. Filled with touching childhood stories and hilarious down-home fisherman's lore, "Think Like a Fish reveals how Mann quite literally learned to "think like a fish." He explains the technique and mindset that enable him to lure a fish from thirty yards away into a circle the size of a hula hoop; how he "trains" bass to jump right into his boat; and how he purportedly managed to lure a shark to shore with rod and reel. But in addition to the fishing techniques and words of wisdom, Mann explores the path that got him where he is today-a poignant story of determination, Southern grit, and good-ole-boy charm. Full of gentle humor andwit, this book brings to life the allure of the South and one of its favorite pastimes.

Author : Sydney Hey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123161940

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The Rapture of the River by Sydney Hey Pdf

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fishers
ISBN : 1908461519

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Sixty Years a Fisherman by John Wilson Pdf

DivSixty Years A Fisherman is the long awaited and updated new edition of much-loved angler John Wilson's memoirs, an icon of the angling world! John reveals the real life story behind the camera lens of a man who was once a cruiseship hairstylist and who later became one of the most recognised TV personalities to have come into the world of angling. Packed full of fishing anecdotes and stories of his travels around the world, Sixty Years A Fisherman is beautifully illustrated with John's own photography./div

Author : S. A. Hey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Fishing
ISBN : OCLC:36819758

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The Rapture of the River by S. A. Hey Pdf

Author : James Arruda Henry
Publisher : Fisherman's Language LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fishers
ISBN : 0985747102

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In a Fisherman's Language by James Arruda Henry Pdf

Captain James Arruda Henry was in his mid-nineties when he began to learn to read and write. Inspired by the story of 98-year old man who had also lived without literacy, James began practicing writing his own name and went on to write his first book, recording his earliest recollections of his grandfather's farm in the Azores to a snippet of his daily life today.

Author : Kenneth B. Watters
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197561478X

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The Fisherman Who Rode a Horse by Kenneth B. Watters Pdf

Description of my Autobiography. This is the story of my life from 1963 to 1975. I left High School with very acceptable results in 1963 to go fishing professionally up and down the West Australian coast. I rode out several cyclones at sea, joined in the fun and games of my peers both ashore and at sea. I was involved in most types of fishing, crayfishing, shark fishing, prawn fishing, tuna fishing and beach seine fishing. In 1966 I took a job at the Carnarvon NASA Tracking Station between seasons where I developed a very strong interest in how it all worked. I returned to school at the WA Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) and graduated as an Electronic Engineer in 1970 and from there I became an Engineer at the NASA Tracking Station at Orroral Valley in the Mountains of the ACT. In 1974 I left the Tracking Station to return to Carnarvon in West Australia to take a position, with the Nor West Whaling Company, as research engineer. After 6 months in Carnarvon NWW transferred me to Queensland to do research for their Gulf of Carpentaria fleet, home ported in Cairns. Having a strong desire to return to WA for the birth of our second son and not being happy in Cairns my wife and I journeyed back to WA to take up a position with the M G Kailis group to do further research in the fishing game. While writing this autobiography in 2003 my wife and I were living in Ocean farm. A friend living close by called in and asked if I would like to accompany him on a farm run. He was managing several farms in the area. On the way back to Ocean Farm we had a very nasty accident. We were travelling on a dirt road and as we came over a crest found a vehicle coming at us down the centre of the road, quite normal on a dirt road. Bob went to the left as far as he could as the crest was atop a cutting and the banks on each side of the road were quite high. The van coming at us turned to the same side of the road and we hit head on. The young guys in the van were from Norway and they drive on the right side of the road opposite to us Aussies, The young guys were both killed. I took it pretty badly as they were kids the same age as my two boys going off windsurfing at Gnarloo the same spot my kids surfed. I came down with a severe case of depression and closed of writing my biography. If there is ever a strong enough demand I might take it up again as I have another 20yrs of fishing experience culminating in operating a hovercraft service between Carnarvon and Monkey Mia. This would mean not only selling some books but getting great feedback from those kind enough to purchase my book. I would like to thank my wife for not only putting up with my long absences at sea and raising my two wonderful boys but for being my best critique. I would also like to thank Terry Kierans an ex Tracky for editing my book. Hope you all get some pleasure and laughs from my story. Ken

Author : George Moskovita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087071824X

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Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor by George Moskovita Pdf

In this authentic account of a seafaring life, Captain George Moskovita offers a highly personal and often humorous look at the career of a commercial fisherman. George Moskovita was sixteen when he graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington, and went to sea. Fishing would take him crabbing off Alaska, seining for sardines off California and for tuna off Mexico, and catching soupfin sharks for their livers (a vital source of Vitamin A during World War II). He came to Astoria, Oregon, in 1939, where he was a pioneer of the Oregon ocean perch fishery. In a career that spanned over 60 years, George Moskovita met with many maritime adventures, recounted for the reader in a clear, direct, and unsentimental style. He saw the fishery he had helped build devastated by foreign factory processing ships. He bought, repaired, traded, and sank more boats than most fishermen would work on in a lifetime. Along the way, he managed to raise four daughters with his wife, June. The name of one of his last boats, the Four Daughters, reflects the central importance of family life to a man who was often at sea. Moskovita's memoir provides a unique glimpse of Pacific maritime life in the 20th century, small-town coastal life after World War II, and the early days of fishery development in Oregon. With an introduction and textual notes by Carmel Finley, an historian of science, and Mary Hunsicker, an aquatic and fisheries scientist, this book will be invaluable to fishery students and professionals interested in the biology, ecology, and history of oceans and commercial fishing. It will also have broad appeal to readers of Oregon history and maritime adventure, and anyone else who has ever stood at the western edge of the continent and wondered what life was like at sea.

Author : Christopher P. Magra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521518383

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The Fisherman's Cause by Christopher P. Magra Pdf

This book examines why and how colonial fishermen and fish merchants mobilized for the American Revolution, underscoring the pivotal maritime efforts that secured American independence.

Author : Tim Gallagher,Greg Myerson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780544787452

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Born to Fish by Tim Gallagher,Greg Myerson Pdf

From RattleSinker inventor Grey Myerson, "an extraordinary story of one man's obsession, a tale of passion, brutality, tragedy, and redemption...a book about a love of fishing that tackles the deepest themes of life" (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk). Born to Fish tells the tale of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel. Overcoming learning disabilities, substance abuse, and the violence associated with a father in the mob, Greg Myerson, a lifelong sport-fisherman, caught an 82-pound striped bass in 2011, shattering a world record that had stood for 29 years. Without any training in biological research, he began studying the striped bass like a scientist—examining how it hunts, the food it eats, how its behavior is affected by moon phases and the cycles of the tides—which led to the creation of the RattleSinker, the lure that helped him catch the record-setting bass. During an appearance on the TV show Shark Tank, Mark Cuban bought a 33 percent share of Greg's company, World Record Striper Company. Yet at the very instant he achieved his crowning glory as a striped bass fisherman, he had a staggering epiphany and instantly regretted killing the fish. Greg is now at the forefront of the effort to save the big striped bass, the most prolific breeders, and actively promotes no-kill catch-and-release tournaments.