Gone Fishing - Hardcover

Rashid, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299168204 ISBN 13: 9780299168209

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999

Whether hiking through a farm field in search of a trout stream or stretching out in a folding chair waiting for the next bite, anglers agree on one point: that the joy of fishing is not so much at the end of the line, but in the lapping of water, the calls of birds and insects, the sun, the snow, and the stars, and the people met along the way. In Gone Fishing, photographer Bob Rashid captures this elusive truth in word and image: there’s more to fishing than catching fish.

With camera in hand, Rashid spent nearly a year with dozens of Wisconsin anglers—men, women, and children. From spearing sturgeon through the ice on Lake Winnebago to pursuing the wily muskellunge on a placid Vilas County night, Rashid captures on film the myriad incarnations of Wisconsin fishing. Nearly ninety full-color photographs, accompanied by Rashid’s engaging narrative, lavishly evoke the traditions and culture of fishing in Wisconsin (including fish fries and catfish queens).

A companion book to Wisconsin Public Television’s hour-long special “Gone Fishing,” this volume expands upon that program, chronicling people and places that the film crew didn’t reach. Gone Fishing will charm everyone interested in fishing—novice and expert alike.

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About the Author:

Bob Rashid (1949–2008) was a Wisconsin photographer whose work appeared in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, Wisconsin Trails, the Milwaukee Journal, and other national and international publications. He documented rural Wisconsin in his photographs for the book Wisconsin's Rustic Roads and exhibited his work throughout Wisconsin.

"I am not an expert angler. I stumble on boats, I am woefully ignorant of modern fishing's vast array of hardware, and my casting technique has been known to make people laugh. Martin Hanson, an angler for 60 years, sized me up immediately.
'You're not a fisherman, are you Bob,' he said politely, moments after we had been introduced, wondering, no doubt, as many people have, why I am working on a book about fishing.
The truth is, I am lucky if I catch a fish, but I'm very good when it come to fishing in another sense, and in this regard I am not alone. During the months I spent with people who fish, virtually everyone, from the pros to the novices, express one particular sentiment. Roughly, it went like this: I love to catch fish, don't get me wrong. But the great thrill about fishing is getting way form everything else and being out here."

"I have spoken with a number of people who say, 'Why do you fish? Why don't you do something atheletic?' Well, those people have clearly never spent eight hours hiking a stream, or in water that is thigh-high. with the current, the boulders, it requires tremendous balance, timing, hand-eye coordination."—Sara Johnson, from Gone Fishing

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