Preface / Lamar Underwood
Song of the angler / A.J. McClane
The return / Patrick O'Brian
Jody's bass / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Fishing the run / John Graves
Listen to this tale of woe / Philip Wylie
The intruder / Robert Traver
The music of the spheres / John Gierach
Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
The Marquesas / John N. Cole
Down to zero / Ted Leeson
September song / Robert C. Ruark
Bruisers of the weed beds / Ben East
Roll cast / Neil Patterson
Adventures in solitude / Charlie Elliott
Sachem River / Roderick L. Haig-Brown
The beginning of the season / John Waller Hills
Thoughts in coltsfoot time / Ernest Schwiebert
The first thousand-pounder / Zane Grey
Bright rivers / Nick Lyons
Septer 18 / W.D. Wetherell
Midstream / Le Anne Schreiber
Fishing streamers and bucktails for trout / Joe Brooks
Striped bass and southern solitude / Ellington White
A trout stream named Desire / John Barsness
A moveable feast / Christopher Camuto
Thread of the river / Odell Shepard
A creelful of Zern / Ed Zern.
