A fisherman begins to isolate himself from his peers after his family members pass away, but when a school of dolphins call out and guide him one day on the water, the man experiences a transformative moment.

Two men with very different roots meet through their work in an Oregon Cannery and decide to buy a fishing boat together. After their first boat capsizes, the two split up for a while, until loneliness brings them back together to try to fish again.

An old sailor is tricked by his friend’s brother into sailing with his old crew into a bad storm. When he returns to the port, he plans his revenge but has a surprising change of heart in light of a friend's good news.

When a fisherman takes his son and nephew on a duck hunting trip on Christmas Day, their boat takes off while they are on a ledge, leaving them stranded in the dead of winter as the tide rises.

The youngest child and only boy in a fishing family of seven children grows up on the Nova Scotia coast. There, he must choose whether to follow in the family tradition of fishing, as his mother wants, or to follow his passion for books that his father instilled in him.

In a Georgia stream, a determined fisherman sets out to catch his dream fish, a rainbow trout.

Two men fish for sharks to sell. Later, one man brings along woman whose behavior creates fissions in their relationship.

A low-income Hispanic fisherman struggling to support his ill wife risks his career and legal autonomy when he agrees to go on a fishing trip with a careless co-worker who is storing a large sum of money near the fisherman's property.

Two men who work for a newspaper in Paris escape the gloomy weather to take a fishing trip in the south of France.

On Christmas vacation in Florida, a ten-year-old boy and his family take a fishing boat out to the Gulf of Mexico, where the boy's father hopes to catch the first tarpon of the year. While the boy is sensitive and observant, his father looks for ways to push his son to be more strong and brave.