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Your favorite Book?
On the heels of my last best advice post (you guy/gals are all awesome) heres my new question....
What is your favorite fly fishing book?
Begginer and Advanced
My picks:
Begginer: Fly Fishing for Dummies
Advanced: the New American Trout by Merwin
What about you?
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Beginner: Curtis Creek Manifesto. Sorry - can't remember authors name.
Non-beginner: The Practical Fly Fisherman by A.J. McLane
Tight lines, Alec
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Beginner - Sheridan Anderson "Curtis Creek Manifesto" and Howard Walden's "Upstream and Down" (On how a boy can get hooked on fishing}
Advanced - Ray Bergman "Trout"
"The number and excellence of books devoted to the exposition of angling is so great that no other sport can compare with it in these respects."
James Robb Notable Angling Literature" (1947)
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Beginner: BSA fly fishing merit badge book. Very good basic advice that won't scare away a 10 year old.
Advanced: "The flytiers benchside reference" No patterns ,but if you want 30 different ways to hackle a fly this is the book. The only better source for fly tying tips are the people here.
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"Illegitimus nil Carborundum"
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My favorite book is "Two Centuries of Soft Hackles" by Sylvester Nemes. All of his books are first rate and this one is my personal favorite. As far as a begining book I would have to vote for Skip Morris's "Fly Tying made Clear and Simple"
Lets go fishin
Antron Midge >> )))*>
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....fly tying is the next best thing to fishing; it is the sort of licking of the lips that eases a thirsty man in the desert
Arthur Ransome
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Beginner: Skip Morris: Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple.
Advanced: Peter Gathercole: The Fly-Tying Bible
Regards
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Beginer or Advanced:
Trout * Ray Bergman
Streamside Guide * Art Flick
It just doesn't get any better than that.
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"If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each."
~John Gierach
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Ditto on Ray Bergman's Trout. Also, Fly Fishing by Tom McNally.
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"Are Fisherman People?' Ed Zern 1951. Reading it sparked the fire enough to get me to badger my Dad into bringing me to a store so I could plunk down saved allowance to get a beginners outfit and try to unravel the mysteries of flyfishing. I'm still unravelling.... For a 'how to' book, "The Idiots Guide to fly Fishing" by Mike Shook is pretty good- but I hate those insulting titles!!!!
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"Knowledge is knowing, wisdom is understanding"
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'THE CAST' by Ed Jaworowski!
From the inside jacket cover "Ed is the first to admit you can't learn how to cast from a book, no matter how remarkable it is, but you can learn about casting, how and why certain principles work, what to look for, and how to identify and correct mistakes."
This is absolutely the best self-help material I've seen in any form to improve one's cast.
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Regards
nam