Fish or Cut Bait: The Remarkable Life and Sportfishing Legacy of Captain Bill Poole

Captain Bill Poole has been set afire; survived sinking; built the world's largest, long-range sport-fishers; been stalked by African lions so closely he could smell their bad breaths; owned three sport-fishing landings, two marinas, two fuel docks, and a sprawling Montana ranch; pioneered Mexico's big-game fishing grounds; punched his way out of skippers' rough-and-tumble watering holes; owned a boatbuilding company; founded a chapter of the Safari Club International; skippered anglers to world-record tuna; rubbed elbows with celebrities like Jacques Cousteau, Lon Chaney, Robert Mitchum, Rilly Caspar, Desi Arnaz and Roy Rogers; tracked Takijistan's mountain sheep at a lung-searing 15000 feet; and financially rose to the top as a multimillionaire.