My Moby Dick

About this book

From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fishermanIn the Berkshire mountains novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pounds it is a fish too big not to be fished for. It is also therefore a fish too big to be caught. Yet Humphrey resolves to do just that and with a dry fly no less. What follows is a season-long pursuit of the impossible as the amateur angler practices his technique devises schemes for getting old One-eye to bite and steels himself for the climactic showdown. Man and trout will find that they have much to learn from each other. One of the finest fishing stories ever published My Moby Dick is a small masterpiece about a whale of a fish.This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the authors estate.