📚 Fishing

17 works · ordered by editions in print

Angle and lure: the fish and their waters, and the vast literature of the wait.

Below are the 17 works carrying the subject fishing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Angling Sketches (Large Print)	Andrew Lang	1891	84
The fly-fisher's entomology	Alfred Ronalds	1836	41
Fishing	H. Cholmondeley-Pennell	1885	17
The rod in India	Henry Sullivan Thomas	1881	15
Fly fishing	Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey Viscount	1899	14
Fishing for dummies	Peter Kaminsky	1997	12
River monsters	Jeremy Wade	2011	9
World Without Fish	Mark Kurlansky	2011	5
Lady with a spear	Eugenie Clark	1951	4
Freshwater Fish and Fishing	Jim Arnosky	1982	4
The Baja catch	Neil Kelly	1988	4
The grasshopper trap	Patrick F. McManus	1985	3
The knowhow book of fishing	Anne Civardi	1976	2
The complete freshwater fisherman	North American Fishing Club	1999	2
Knowing Bass	Keith A. Jones	2002	2
The Old Man and The Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1957	1
Spoonplugging.	Buck Perry	1973	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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