Fishing's Best Excuses

Explain away your bad casts or your tiny catch—and have your friends laugh at the same time!

Fishing’s Best Excuses is a must have book for any angler that has spent a day on the water with little to show for their efforts. With dozens of witty excuses, as well as crazy fishing facts and hilarious cartoons, you’ll be able to laugh away your ineptitude. 

Whether it’s due to the poor weather, bad bait, unacceptable equipment, or simply because the fishing gods were out to get you, there’s always a viable, or not so viable, excuse to explain your failure. So the next time you come home with nothing but an empty cooler, there are countless reasons why your woeful performance couldn’t possibly be your fault. 

So without further ado, we offer you, our friend, our colleague, our compatriot, a foolproof way to divert the blame, the embarrassment, the multitude of jokes at your expense. We give you, Fishing’s Best Excuses.

Joshua Shifrin is a licensed psychologist and  the author of seventeen books (eighteen, if you include this one!). His most recent book, Baseball's Best Excuses, was published in 2023. He loves to write whenever he can find the time. He lives in New Jersey with his beautiful wife and two terrific boys.

Matt Mitchell is a software sales executive, author, and an avid angler. Matt enjoys fishing with family and friends, especially with his wife and teenage daughter along the "Forgotten Coast" of Florida. An entrepreneur at heart, Matt has invented fishing products and brands which celebrate the beauty of all things outdoors.