Scott wants a fascinating story to share with the class about his summer, and after telling the class that he caught a fish as big as his desk, Scott feels guilty about lying.
In the Jim Crow South, a young African-American girl decides to share the secret of her and her mother's fishing success with their needy white neighbors.
A day at Sardis Lake, Mississippi turns into trouble for Robbie Bridgeman and his two friends, Tara and Landon Phillips, who just want to catch "the big one" and end up catching a prehistoric shark that is over sixty feet long.
When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.
