Your favorite Book?

[FIREMAN]

Im gonna go out on limb and stray from the how to and self help books.

This book is extremely funny if your into dry humor.

"Zipping My Fly", moments in the life of an American Sportsman. By Rich Tosches.

Seege

[rookie]

I too am going out on a limb. While I do not believe this is in a bound copy, I have found nothing that compares to learning as that found on this site. I looked for a book, took a fly tying class and found that what was available to me by Mr. Campbell's fly tying instructions and the information available on just about everything to do with fly fishing on this site was an endless source of wealth----Free of charge.

Steve (Rookie)

[D. Micus]

beginner: trout bum--wonderful introduction to the sport.

advanced: the longest silence

[MikeZRed]

Lao Tsu's Tao Te Ching is by far the best book I have ever read. It applies to everything from fishing to life.

-MZR

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[Migs]

Here is a decent list:

The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference (you have to have this one)
Master The Cast by George Roberts (very clear, well done)
The Curtis Creek Manifesto (you could teach a kid with this one)
Presenting The Fly: A Practical Guide to the Most Important Element of Fly Fishing by Lefty Kreh (this is the best I've read, the man is on the stature of J Caswell
Last I recommend the Orvis Streamside Guides, as the few I've read and highlighted were quite good.

I can also make recommendations in Ice Climbing, World Politics, Six Guns, IPSC, and non fiction as I love to read.

Miguel

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[Bostonangler]

I read "zipping my fly" and thought the humor was terrible. There were 2 parts I found funny but not too impressed overall. I like the geirach books for light reading, Production Fly Tying by AK Best has made my tying much better and I loved Brook Trout by Karas. I think one more deserves mention. The best backcountry flyfishing book has to be flyfishing the rockymountain backountry." Unbelievably informative. Good topic too.

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[kbobb]

Techniques of trout fishing and fly tying by George Harvey

Trout Tactics by Joe Humphreys.

Read these books and DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU and you will catch fish...it aint brain surgery.

[Varden]

Sheridan Anderson's "The Curtis Creek Manifesto" for stream fishing

Dave Hughes' "Trout Flies" for tying and everything else (there is more in this book than mere tying)

These are two of the books I will not sell or trade. All others I keep are on the specifics of specialty fishing or locations. If you want trout stream fishing info, these will get you there. Watching Joe Humpheys' videos on nymph and dry fly fishing should round out the education.

It goes without saying that if you are reading this, then you already know the equivalent of countless volumes of useful info on this site.

Randy Knapp

[Les Johnson]

"A River Never Sleeps", Roderick Haig-Brown
I read it in October every year.
Good Fishing,
Les Johnson