The conversational sports columnist for the New York Herald Tribune has put together and expanded some of his best articles on fishing. These are leisurely lessons and recollections of the sport in both foreign and domestic waters--- how the fish bite in Bangkok: dropping a line in Lapland; the compleat angler in Alaska; and a long section on the icthy delights of Wiscons in waters. The Eastern coast from Martha's Vineyard to Florida and a surprise piece on trout fishing in the Arizona desert round out a reel around the world with always readable Smith.