| Editor's Foreword | |
| Back Then | |
| Sounds of Silence | p. 3 |
| Lucky | p. 5 |
| Safety First | p. 7 |
| Closing Day | p. 9 |
| The Best Presents | p. 11 |
| Nature's Wretched Revenge | p. 14 |
| Misspent Youth | p. 16 |
| The First Freeze | p. 20 |
| Whatever Happened to Old Blue Jeans? | p. 23 |
| Give Me Autumn | p. 25 |
| Going Solo | p. 27 |
| Cruelty by Degrees | p. 29 |
| Presto, Chango | p. 31 |
| Making Sense out of Scents | p. 33 |
| Ages and Stages | p. 35 |
| The Strike | p. 37 |
| You Don't Have to Pull the Trigger | p. 41 |
| A Fireside Chat | p. 43 |
| Getting the Bugs Out | p. 47 |
| Sole Food | p. 50 |
| Fishing Is Fun - No Matter How You Do It | p. 52 |
| A Crime against Nature | p. 55 |
| That Ol' Brown Magic | p. 57 |
| An Official Fish | p. 60 |
| Forget the Rules | p. 62 |
| In Search of Trout | p. 64 |
| Dumb Luck | p. 67 |
| Douglas Crappies Don't Read Books | p. 69 |
| A Sure Sign of Spring | p. 72 |
| The Brook Trout of Bass | p. 74 |
| By the Light of the Moon | p. 77 |
| Pint-Sized Powder Kegs | p. 80 |
| Hurry Up and Wait | p. 83 |
| How to Be Bad with Good Trout | p. 88 |
| Spring Flowers | p. 90 |
| Gone and, Sadly, Forgotten | p. 92 |
| Water Woes | p. 94 |
| For the Birds | p. 98 |
| Gas Pains | p. 100 |
| Death in the Forest | p. 102 |
| A Fine "Flare" | p. 104 |
| First, You Gotta Read the Program | p. 106 |
| Leapin' Lizard | p. 109 |
| Something for Everyone | p. 111 |
| Trashed on Politics | p. 113 |
| Silent Spring | p. 115 |
| "See" Gulls | p. 117 |
| Just Change the Rules | p. 119 |
| Going Batty | p. 121 |
| Leave Those "Orphans" Alone | p. 123 |
| Fly in the Sky | p. 127 |
| Taming the Wild Mushroom | p. 129 |
| Objectoes de Arte | p. 131 |
| How to Pack for Trips | p. 133 |
| Answers, Please | p. 135 |
| Lost and Found | p. 137 |
| Auction Advice | p. 139 |
| For Dog Training Purposes Only | p. 141 |
| Diary Entry No. 187 | p. 143 |
| Recycle, America! | p. 146 |
| Country Living | p. 148 |
| Altruistic Angling | p. 150 |
| Chirping to a Different Tune | p. 152 |
| Holy Cow! | p. 154 |
| Rule of Thumb | p. 156 |
| As Years Go By | p. 160 |
| The Potentate of Powell | p. 162 |
| Uncle Charlie Proffitt | p. 166 |
| High on the Hog | p. 169 |
| Not Your Standard Funeral | p. 173 |
| These Legs Are Made for Walkin' | p. 175 |
| The Bouncer | p. 177 |
| Heroes of the Blizzard | p. 178 |
| Under Pap-paw's Watchful Eye | p. 180 |
| Fishing for a Living | p. 183 |
| Not-So-Tiny Tim | p. 185 |
| There Is No "Off Season" | p. 188 |
| A Family Full of Champion Liars | p. 190 |
| Problems with Pintails | p. 194 |
| Wet-Weather Friends | p. 196 |
| A Friend in Need | p. 199 |
| The Common Denominator | p. 202 |
| Woodcock Woes | p. 204 |
| Big Black Dogs Are My Kind of People | p. 206 |
| Marital Stress | p. 211 |
| Less-Than-Modern Weapons | p. 213 |
| Just Like Dan'l | p. 215 |
| Think First, Shoot Later | p. 219 |
| Setting the Record Straight | p. 221 |
| Family Affair | p. 223 |
| Number One | p. 226 |
| Bluebills and Bluewings | p. 231 |
| The Perils of Quailing | p. 235 |
| The Pitfalls of Partridges | p. 237 |
| Mr. Bewilderness | p. 239 |
| Feeling Sympathy | p. 241 |
| Launch Ramp Lunacy | p. 243 |
| Hooked on the Holston | p. 245 |
| No Pain, No Gain | p. 248 |
| Trouble on the Line | p. 250 |
| Shared Miseries | p. 252 |
| Awards Time | p. 254 |
| Itchin' for Blackberries | p. 257 |
| Snort! Snort! | p. 259 |
| Who's the Dumb Turkey? | p. 262 |
| Iced Fishing | p. 264 |
| The Last Laugh | p. 266 |
| One Down, One Million to Go | p. 268 |
| Mother Nature's Miscues | p. 270 |
| Beating the Odds | p. 275 |
| Tables Turned | p. 278 |
| Gloom and Doom | p. 280 |
| Thrill of the Chase | p. 282 |
| Double Dose of Fortune | p. 286 |
| Last Day Luck | p. 288 |
| A Monster Musky | p. 290 |
| A Penny's Worth of Trouble | p. 292 |
| Hillbilly Alligators | p. 294 |
| The Fight of Their Lives | p. 296 |
| Ruined Records | p. 298 |
| Lightning Strikes Once, Twice, Thrice! | p. 300 |
| Upland Game in the Lowlands | p. 304 |
| Crappie Country | p. 306 |
| Don't Mess with Alice | p. 309 |
| Tons of Texas Turkeys | p. 311 |
| Back Home | p. 314 |
| Bountiful Birds | p. 317 |
| A Big Puddle of Water | p. 320 |
| Halloween in the Bayou | p. 323 |
| One, Two, Three, Four | p. 325 |
| The 2,147-Mile Ordeal | p. 327 |
| Selected Readings | p. 329 |
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