Softcover. First Printing April 1998. Epicenter Press. ISBN: 0-945397-67-4. 159 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" x .5". 1 Map 

(From the back cover of the book)  Fishing Alaska's streams, lakes, and salt water is often anything but a placid experience. Sometimes anglers are hapless players in a comedy, ducking flying hooks, dodging competitive bears, and diving n to retrienve runaway fishing poles. You might say it looks like the Keystone Kops at times. As sports editor for the Anchorage Daily News, Lew Freedman has heard stories you wouldn't believe. But who says fishermen are truthful? Here's a collection of Lew's favorites: wacky tales from the water's edge.

Fishing for A Laugh - back coverAbout the Author: Lew Freedman is the sports editor of the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest daily newspaper, and the author of then other books about Alaska.

A prize-winning sports writer, Freedman is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended Boston University.  He also has a master's degree from Alaska Pacific University.

Freedman and his wife, Donna, live in Anchorage and are the parents of one daughter, Abigail.

Table of Contents
Map
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is There Life Beyond Fishing?

 1. Caught It
 2. Paradise Won and Paradise Lost
 3. Chasing the Kenai King
 4. If You Think Salmon Come Easy, Buy Some in a Can
 5. What Are the Odds?
 6. Catch Anything You Can
 7. They Call Him Mr. Fish
 8.  Who Is That Masked Man?
 9.  Whose Fish Is It, Anyway?
10. Grin and Bear It
11. Fishing as a Spectator Sport
12. Women of the Water
13. When the Shark Bites
14. Wherever There's Water, There's Fish ...and Wild and Crazy Fishermen
15. Fishermen Do Strange Things
16. Fairbanks Fisherman Can Have Fun, Too
17. Fly In to Fly Fish
18. A Brash Money-Back Guarantee
19. Thar She Blows
20. Sometimes It's Easier to Talk to the Fish
21. Fish the Size of Football Players
22. Don't Turn Your Back
23. Tricks of the Trade

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