Fishing book: our selection of the best books dedicated to fishing

La période des fêtes approche ? Vous avez un proche fan de pêche dont c’est bientôt l’anniversaire ? C »est l’occasion de penser à des idées de cadeaux pour faire plaisir à son entourage et à soi-même. En la matière, les livres de pêche fourmillent et une longue tradition littéraire s’est installée depuis très longtemps autour de ce sport loisir. Pour en avoir lus quelques uns au coin du feu ou durant un voyage, voici une sélection des meilleurs livres dédiés à la pêche. 

Fishing on the Edge by Mike Iaconnelli

Mike Iaconelli is one of the most emblematic figures in American fishing, to the point of completely overturning its codes. In Fishing on the Edge, Mike Iaconelli nous dévoile les secrets de son extraordinaire succès: comment il a développé son style « power fishing », quelle est son approche au bord de l’eau, comment il positionne son bateau et persévère lorsque les bass ne sont pas mordeurs.

Ce livre de pêche est un voyage intensif, instructif et souvent frappant à travers la vie d’un jeune homme impétueux qui a dédié sa vie à la pêche et qui a porté ce sport à un tout autre niveau. C’est l’histoire captivante d’un homme qui a soigneusement préparé chaque étape de son succès, gardé des notes sur tous ses poissons et exécuté le plan parfait pour atteindre le sommet. Un beau récit, même si l’on n’est pas pêcheur. 

The River of the Sixth Day by Norman McLean

Everyone knows the film Et au milieu coule une rivière, but few people know the book from which it is based. And rightly so. It's often difficult to 'get into' a book that has previously been adapted for the screen. Especially when the film is as good as Redford's. But we do recommend it.

This fishing book which tells the story of the relationship between Norman Maclean, the narrator and his brother during frenzied fly-fishing parties between the two brothers. We are irremediably attached to this authentic love and we share their many differences which separate them and bring them closer together.

The Long Silence by Thomas McGuane

What if the secret of happiness lay in a few lonely escapes along the most beautiful rivers in the world? If the world finally found its meaning while armed with its fishing rod, we try for the thousandth time the perfect cast?

With this autobiographical accountThomas McGuane opens the door to a childhood and a life spent in contact with nature, and invites us to savour the richness of the world around us.

A fishing book that is both moving and overwhelming, as we can recognize ourselves in his testimony as a fisherman.

Life According to Gus Orviston by David James Duncan

In the middle of a storm by Sebastian Junger

For an angler who only fishes for recreation, it's often easy to forget that there are also many people on this planet who fish for a living. In the middle of a storm is one of the most famous accounts of this commercial fishery, telling the story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial swordfish vessel operating out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. During October 1991, Andrea Gail was caught in what meteorologists described as "the storm of the century".

Exciting, terrible, terrifying. The American journalist Sebastian Junger investigated for more than two years among Gloucester swordfish fishermen, coast guards, rescuers, those who survived this terrible hurricane.