Fish Stories

A fish hawk hits the lake like a piledriver—and discovers its pickerel is too big to carry away. “He’ll be drowned!” cries Bige, as the struggle disappears beneath the foam.

In Henry Abbott’s 1919 collection, lakeside camps and quiet mountain ponds are lively with fishermen—and with wild creatures who may have better fishing methods. Abbott and his companion Bige watch an osprey wrestle its catch, while a curious raccoon claims a trout straight off the narrator’s line and a long-legged heron patrols the shallows. The anglers come to fish, but the animals have their own ideas about who gets the prize. What other unexpected rivals are waiting along the water’s edge?

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