A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through a series of ¿what-if¿ stories:<br/><br/>What if someone discovered a fly that worked on every cast?<br/><br/>What if we could fish anywhere, any time in the distant past?<br/><br/>What if we could explore the fishing on a different planet?<br/><br/>What if our sport¿s leading thinkers suddenly decided that an infamous trash fish was really cool and a great sporting trophy after all?<br/><br/><br/>A Fish Come True answers these and other engaging questions in stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor, and¿most important of all¿hope. <br/><br/>In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to faux press release to science-fiction adventure, Schullery honors the angler¿s innate and precious need to hope. And in the midst of this lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards and deeply satisfying misadv