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

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.

In Michigan, a young boy whose parents are going through a divorce spends his days fantasizing about his goldfish, Fish.

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.

After he spots a giant catfish in a river in the southern United States, a farmer dedicates ten years of his life to catching it, and leaves his wife to tend the farm.

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.

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.

A man fishing on a bridge speaks to a farmer who is waiting by the road to see his wife and the man his wife left him for drive by. When the two arrive, the man abandons the wife and so does the farmer, leaving the fisherman to comfort her.

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.

A father and son hope to go fishing in Oregon but they learn that the rivers no longer have any fish. They hear a rumor about a hidden lake, so they set out on a journey through the wilderness to find it.