[i][b]Books that I shall always treasure:
Minor Tactics of a Chalk Stream
The Dry Fly and Fast Water
Fly Fishing Mountain Lakes
A Modern Dry Fly Code
Wet Flys
Trout Magic
The Seasons of a Fisherman
Famous British Columbia Fly-Fishing Waters
Fly-Fishing is Spoken Here
Joe and Me
Wisdom of the Guides
☆ These all have been gifts from my Son over the past eleven Christmas’s [/b][/i]
My #1 favorite
A.J. McClane The Practical fly Fisherman.
Standing in a River Waiving a Stick, love it!
Sounds like a few titles I should check out. Heres a few books I’ve received as gifts from my wife and kids and also cherish (and happen to think they’re good reads as well) …
My Father’s Cabin (probably my all-time favorite)
A River Run’s Through It (I love the book, flame away if you must)
The River Why
The Earth is Enough
Fly Fishing The 41st
Joe and Me
Alone In The Wilderness
You all are better than me. I get bored stiff reading books about hunting and or fishing of any type. I read a lot just not about those two subjects.
I love the liteature, and especially early Geirach.
Coughlin
Nighthawk - I hear ya, I can’t make myself read the instructional type books, but a good story with an outdoors theme is the ticket for me. Makes a cramped plane ride a little more bearable.
As a kid, besides wearing copies of Outdoor Life and Field and Stream to tatters, I was a huge fan of Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Lord of the Flies, etc.
I suggest his earlier books like “Pocket Water” are great, and also his latest “Trout Eyes.” Wm Tappley recently passed away. His dad was Tap from Tap’s Tips.
I can’t and don’t fish as much as I used to. But, I still love fly fishing and I’m looking forward to reading stories in books about other people’s excursions. I’m starting to fish vicariously through other’s adventures. I’ve also noticed that the best books seem to start at a price of around $50. That’s too much for me so I’m thinking about the library.
Thanks Steve for the suggestions. Now maybe I know what books to look for.
I suppose if the books I’m looking for were about “Big Time Wrestling” the price would be $6.95 but no. I have to be looking for fly fishing literature. Oh well, that’s life.
Joe, if you see one of mine you would like to read
let me know and I will loan it to ya!
I didn’t know he had died…what a sad bummer.
I’ve had Trout Eyes for quite a while…just hadn’t gotten around to reading it.
Many of his Brady Coyne murder mysteries were entertaining reads as well.
Steve,
Loan ME the first six! <grin> Just kidding