Fish Camp

“An enormous achievement—a copiously researched, evocatively written, and deeply felt love letter to Florida’s wondrous fish camps.”—Andrew Furman, author of Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

“Fish Camp makes me long for a fishing world I’ve never had the chance to know. It’s an opportunity to experience that world on its own unique, vibrant terms. This book reminds us that Florida fish camps are places that deserve to be remembered, and in this telling, remembrance is a pleasure, not a duty.”—Neil Norman, author of Tight Lines and Tall Tales: Stories of Southern Appalachian Fly Fishing

“Hailey’s approach to the subject of fish camps is fascinating and interesting, and this book serves as a historical document for a much-loved feature in our state.”—Tommy Thompson, author of The Saltwater Angler’s Guide to Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida

“Hailey’s delightful book meanders, in the best possible way, through the colorful history of Florida’s iconic fish camps. This is a book where past and present mingle and recompose, like Florida’s lively waterways, offering keen insights into how places endure, even amid enormous change.”—Laura A. Ogden, author of Loss and Wonder at the World’s End

“A lovely exploration of meanings: of fish, of water, of home and place and space, pasts and futures, and the intertwinings of human and more-than-human lives. I was—forgive me—hooked.”—Eric Wagner, author of Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island