Kiowa County Public Library District

Story of a fishing trip by Jim and his grandfather, an accident, and survival from the accident.

The popular Field and Stream columnist shares the many joys-and even more numerous pains-of his hilarious outdoor antics in this essay collection. For more than twenty years, Bill Heavey-a three-time National Magazine Award finalist-has staked a claim as one of America's best sportswriters. In his Field & Stream column, "A Sportsman's Life," and feature stories for that magazine and others, he takes readers across the country and beyond to experience...

When he goes fishing with his father for the first time, a young boy hopes to catch the gefilte fish for his family's Shabbos dinner, but instead he catches a carp, a trout, and a pike.

Although some in town consider the Fish Woman a witch, a young boy goes fishing with her and not only catches, and gives away, his first salmon, but gets to see a pod of whales close up.

Squirrel joins his friends on a fishing trip, but spends the day disagreeing with them on everything from whether fishing is fun to how to reach their boat.

Former Scotland Yard copper Jake Moore, co-owner of a marginal sport fishing outfit in Mombasa, owes an Arab oil dealer $17,000 for diesel fuel because the country's civil unrest has scared off Ernies, pale-faced tourists who came to Kenya in search of big fish. Jake; his fellow Brit partner, Harry Philliskirk; and Det. Insp. Daniel Jouma, possibly the only Kenyan cop not on the take, tangle with a variety of nasties, whose crisis-management skills...

Returning to the Scottish Highland village of Gandiegow to visit with her late husband’s grandfather, widow and single mother Rachel runs into an old flame who offers her something she never thought she’d have—a second chance at love.

While on vacation in the mountains of Montana, a young girl and her grandfather share a special morning.

Tiny and Buddy work together as a team while learning how to catch fish from Dad. "Dad is teaching Team Pteranodon how to catch fish. But Tiny can not catch one. Will someone help her? Read this fun story and find out"--From publisher description.