Book Opinions
Getting my christmas list together and I am asking for a few books. Any opinions would be great. Thanks, Chad
A Good Life Wasted: or Twenty Years as a Fishing Guide
Dave Ames
Trout
Ray Bergman
The Orvis Guide to Prospecting for Trout
Tom Rosenbauer
The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams
Tom Rosenbauer
The Dry Fly: New Angles
Gary Lafontaine
The Orvis guide to reading trout streams is a good book for a beginner. Not too much new information if you already know what you're doing.
If you're not completely set on fly fishing books then look at, 'The Old Man and the Boy,' by: Robert Ruark. The follow up, 'The Old Man's Boy Grows Older' is just as good.
Thunderthumbs.
Fishing the Great Beyond
'TROUT' by Ray Bergman
A good Life Wasted is an excellent, fun read, as is his earlier book, True Love and the Wooly Bugger.
Trout is a must have for any serious fishing library.
LaFontaine's book is also a good one.
The Orvis guides I don't know as much about. Hope that helps
If it swims and eats, it'll eat a fly.
If you ask for opinions you get opinions. These may not be right but they are mine.
A good life wasted is a great read about life as a guide in Montana(?). You will not learn much about fishing but you will not want to put it down.
Trout is a classic how-to book. I have a couple editions and read them on occasion, but much of the information is (in my opinion) a little dated. How is that for sacrilege - thinking that one of the great classics in the field might not be your favorite read?
I have never looked at the Orvis guides. I assume that like anything from Orvis they are pretty.
Gary Lafontaine's books are all very good and are high quality how-to books.
David
For the NON serious library, I'd suggest:
Travers Corners
Return to Travers Corners
Travers Corners the Final Chapter
Seinfeld for flyfishers.
"You must not be too greedy in catching your said game (fish), as in taking too much at one time...That could easily be the occasion of destroying your own sport and other men's also." Juliana Berners (1450)
Take a look at this list:
www.classictrout.com/classic_literature.html
This is "MY" Coffee Table Book, that I alway like to pickup and read, besides looking at all the gloriously beautiful photography..
"Trout and Salmon" Photography by R. Valentine Atkinson, with accompanied stories by; John Gierach,J.W. Hill, David Street, Brian Clark, Roderick Haig-Brown, Zane Grey, Clive Gammon, Ernest Schwiebert, Tom McGuane, David Profumo, Nick Lyons, Bull Currie.
Publisher: Lyon Press
Published: 1999
ISBN: 1-55821-804-1
MUST READ -
Both of Vince Marinaro's volumes.
The Practical Angler by W. C. Stewart. It might be 150 years old but it's still valuable. Obviously, it's out of print but there are reprints available at reasonable prices on the "used up books" market.
Fish well.
Bill
Name notes where I fish and for what I fish.
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