We - by which I mean anglers - are a curious bunch. We 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 we neglect those happier days when the sun shines and we can hardly put a foot wrong. 'The One That Didn't Get Away' celebrates these triumphs - and for the vast majority of Britain's near one million anglers there are always red-letter days. They may not come thick and fast and they may not involve a fish that breaks all the records, but we have all known the excitement, the joy even, 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 all 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, will find much here to entertain and to delight - and to remind you why the next best thing to fishing is reading about it!.