A treasury of triumphant angling tales and anecdotes that will appeal to game fishers, coarse or sea anglers. This is a celebration of those red-letter days spent by the river or at sea. Author Tom Quinn has trawled through numerous publications from the past two centuries to net some of the most extraordinary tales of angling at its best.

Anglers are a curious bunch. They love to tell tales of the one that got away - the 30lb salmon that made a last, mad rush and cut the line on a rock, the huge tench that threw the hook just as it neared the landing net - but they neglect those happier days when the sun shines and they can hardly put a foot wrong. 'The One That Didn't Get Away' celebrates these triumphs - and for the vast majority of Britain's almost one million anglers there are always red-letter days. They may not come thick and fast, or involve a fish that breaks the records, but anglers know the excitement and joy of landing a fish beyond all expectations. Author Tom Quinn has trawled through a vast archive of reports from contemporary sources, as well as from long-forgotten angling newspapers and magazines, to unearth some of the most extraordinary tales of angling at its best. Stories include big fish landed against the odds on the flimsiest of tackle, monsters netted just when all hope had been lost and wonderful fish brought to the bank in the most unlikely circumstances. Whatever your interest in angling, whether you are a game fisher, coarse or sea angler, you will find much here to entertain and to delight - and to remind you why the next best thing to fishing is reading about it!