by Herbert Hoover, edited by William Nichols, 1964, Random House, New York

This book was in a box of books that I inherited from my grandmother back in the 1990’s. I hadn’t read it until recently when I decided to share it with our book club.

The book is a delightful collection of Herbert Hoover’s thoughts on the joys and other aspects of fishing. It’s only 89 pages and it took about an hour to read. The book was published in 1964 which is the same year he died, but I don’t know how it came to be. Perhaps it was a tribute to Hoover? It does contain some ideas that are outdated in 2023 (such as Hoover’s belief that it would be too costly to clean up rivers and streams that are already polluted and the idea that a fisherman should be entitled to catch as much fish as he likes), but most of his thoughts about fishing are valid today.

Anyway, it’s a fun read!