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.
'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 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.
Take a look at this list:
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
“The Dry Fly: New Angles” is an excellent book that a well researched and thought out approach to dry fly fishing, particularly with regards to choosing attractor patterns. It complements many of the other great books on fishing dry flies.
The Guide to Prospecting Trout steams is also an excellent book that focuses on fishing non-hatch periods and covers the types of conditions where you may want to try dries vs nymphs vs wets vs streamers, etc. This book is one of the few that I usually carry with me on trips (in my luggage, not on the water).
Anything by John Gierach is entertaining. Trout Bum is probably my favorite.
the River Why by David James Duncan
& all of his subsequent books.
Ted Leeson’s books.
Later,
Peter
I think I’d put The River Why right up there with any of the classics of fishing literature. Also, Paul Quinnett’s Pavlov’s Trout, Darwin’s Bass, and Fishing Lessons are well worth a look, too.
Fly Fishing the Louisiana Coast by Pete Cooper. (Sorry guys, I just had to!) :?
Thanks for all of the great replies. I am not a novice, however I love to read all kinds of books in regards to the fundamentals. Keeps me busy during the cold winter months. I have a decent library of fly fishing literature, just looking to add and I had heard some good things from others about these books. Looks like I will just get them all, or at least put them on the list and see what Santa brings. Thanks for the input. -Chad
Don’t remember the Author but a really good book is Streamer fishing for trophy trout! I highly recommend…
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Al Corey (essobee)