Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die: Fly-Fishing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
by Chris Santella; 1999; hardcover; 106pp
Santella, a freelance writer for the New York Times, the New Yorker and Fly Rod & Reel magazine, offers 50 short takes on the ultimate fly-fishing destinations in this beautifully photographed and nicely packaged volume. Each locale comes recommended by an avid fisher; for example, the founder of Frontiers Travel, Mike Fitzgerald, and his son, also named Mike Fitzgerald, suggest fishing for Atlantic salmon at Laxa I Adaldal in Iceland. Fly-fishing instructor Cathy Beck leads Santella to the thrill of catching snook off Boca Paila in the Yucatan. And Sweetwater Travel founder Jeff Vermillion describes the excitement of fishing on the Ponoi River in Mongolia for taimen ("the world’s largest almonid, capable of reaching 70-plus inches in length and more than 100 pounds"). In Europe, Simon Gawesworth tells Santella about the trick to fishing brown trout on the River Test in Stockbridge, England, where wading is forbidden. The book also highlights more traditional (though no less exciting) trout fishing destinations, such as the Bighorn River in Montana and the Green River in Utah. With its elegant descriptions, gorgeous photos and practical information on accommodations and equipment, this book is a dream travel guide for avid fly-fishers.
reviewed: "Stunning!,
I boutht this book for my father for Father's Day and he hasn't let it out of his sight since. He has read it cover to cover at least twice. Pictures beautiful and descriptions detailed. I think he is making his reservations for next year on Christmas Island. He was with us the week I gave it to him and he told everyone about the book. What a buy! I will have to get another copy if I want to read it -- it definitely will not be passed on throughout the rest of us fly fishermen in the family.
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Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing
Everything Anglers Need to Know by the World's Foremost Fly Fishing Expert
by Lefty Kreh; 2003; 424pp
Lefty Kreh is generally acknowledged around the world as being the wisest and most widely read fly fishing instructor. Over the past fifty years he has written nearly two dozen books, accounting for hundreds of thousands of copies in print, in order to address the many aspects of this exciting sport. Now for the first time, all of Lefty's many tips and techniques are available in a single, powerful volume: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing. Culled from a lifetime of fishing and teaching in almost every conceivable place a fish can be caught, fly fishers will learn the master's thousands of subtle tricks and invaluable insights, such as: selection of rod, line, and leader for fresh and salt water; basic casting, casting in salt water, solving casting problems, and advanced casting; approaching fish and presenting flies; techniques for trout, salmon, bass, panfish, stripers, bluefish, sharks, tarpon, bonefish, and more; fly design and selection; fishing in rivers and lakes, inshore and offshore, in mangrove backwaters and on the open sea.
"Lefty Kreh has rewritten the policy and procedure manual for today's fly fisherman in language suitable for beginners and experts alike. Kreh's masterly characterization of the "whys" behind successful fly fishing confirms his position as one of the sport's most respected icons."-- American Angler magazine
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Lefty's Little Fly-Fishing Tips: 200 Innovative Ideas to Help You Catch Fish
by Lefty Kreh; 2002; paperback; 144pp
Dozens of practical tips, invaluable advice, and hard-won observations on how to fool even the wiliest fish, in both fresh and salt water. Whether your fly fishing takes you to freshwater trout streams and bass lakes; to the Northeast salt for striped bass and bluefish; or to the tropics for bone-fish, tarpon, jacks, and redfish, you will find much of value in Lefty's Little Fly-Fishing Tips, a distillation of a fly-fishing master's more than five decades plying the waters of the world with fly rod in hand. Advanced and beginning fly anglers alike will benefit from the wisdom born of Lefty's long experience. Learn how to: Use a partner to find fish and cast quickly and accurately; improve your chances of catching larger fish of any species; simultaneously retrieve a fly and strip line from the reel; rescue a fly that's stuck on a log; cast easily in tight quarters; organize and maintain your tackle for optimum convenience and performance and much more. This beautiful and practical book is a must for any serious fly fisher, beginner or expert.
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Fishing Nymphs, Wet Flies & Streamers,
Subsurface Techniques for Trout in Streams
by Dick Sternberg, David L. Tieszen, John Van Vliet ; 1996; hardcover 112pp
"An excellant first book for the soon to be fly fishing addict. Clear, concise and extremely well illustrated, "Fishing Nymphs, Wet Flies & Streamers: Subsurface Techniques for Trout in Streams", introduces the novice fly fisherman to terminology, fly presentation, stream entomology and an understanding of the stream environment enough so one could enter their local fly shop and feel they have a starting point from which to ask questions.
The photos and illustrations are not gratuitous but lend extreme clarity to the trouts behavior. The text is concise enough to move you through a broad introduction to the subject quickly and clearly but you will certainly want to explore more books on the sport to round out your understanding. I wish this series by "The Complete Fly Fisherman" (check out the other titles) had been my first books because they are so clear. Buy them as a gift for yourself or someone you know that is starting out. They'll like it."
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by Dave Hughes; 1988; paperback;' 223pp
"Dave Hughes does an excellent job describing and teaching how to read water. On most rivers, you will often see flyfisherman fishing the wrong type of water or at least fishing certain types of water with the wrong technique. Dave Hughes explains the basics water types (riffles, runs, pools, dead water, etc.) in detail. He also explains the different types of aquatic insects found in each type of water and why will be found in certain types of water over others (e.g. why certain nymphs are found primarily in the riffles and others more in pools. He explains where fish will be in each type of water, what insect types will be in each type of water and what techniques work to catch the fish in each water type. It is an all-around very educational book for both the beginner and advanced flyfisher. The beginner can get a wealth of information from the book. A more experienced flyfisher will get many tips/techniques from this book and can use it as an all-around reference book to be read at least once a year. Don't pass up this book because the title seems simple. Everyone can learn a ton from this book."
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Flyfisher's Guide to Pennsylvania
by Dave Wolf; 2000; paperback; 544pp
In this 525 page guidebook, the ninth in our series of Flyfisher's Guides, veteran angling author Dave Wolf highlights the best flyfishing opportunities throughout the state in great detail with over 90 detailed maps and 60+ hatch charts. Previous guidebooks on Pennsylvania have invariably focused only on trout. In this comprehensive book, Wolf covers all those trouting opportunities in great detail and all the great warmwater flyfishing as well. Rivers like the Susquehanna have long been known among the best smallmouth bass waters in the country, and flyrodders throughout the mid-Atlantic states annually fish this river and many of Pennsylvania's countless rivers and streams for trout, bass, and other species. This is also a true travel guide, as well, covering where to stay, restaurants, fly shops and sporting goods stores and much more.
reviewed:"The ONLY Fishing Guide Flyfisher's Guide to Pennsylvania will put you on good fishing, and get you started with the right flies and tactics. In fact, this is the only fishing guide book I have read that is so complete yet is such entertaining reading"
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A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
by Norman Maclean; 2001; paperback; 239pp
Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance in the most difficult of times.
reviewed:"A book you will read more than once Set in the Montana of Maclean's youth, he paints exquisitely vivid and beautiful word pictures of a land and water and family now gone. At the core is the frustration of the often-futile attempt of trying to help another or trying to save a loved one from their self-destruction. There are passages here which are as wonderfully written as anything in English. Not a page passes without discovering a superbly crafted gem. "
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Fly Fishing for Dummies
by Peter Kaminsky; 1998; hardcover; 384pp
For the unschooled, fly-fishing can appear impossibly difficult and otherworldly, the province of tweedy sportsmen with enough time and money to look credible on the water. But as Peter Kaminsky explains in the opening chapter, this graceful method of catching fish doesn't require "the touch of a surgeon, the body mechanics of Tiger Woods, and the spirit of a Zen master." What it does require is a little dedication and good instruction--and Fly Fishing for Dummies delivers on the latter. This crash-course tutorial removes the mystery with chapters on gear, flies, casting, and fishing strategies. There's even a chapter on some of the great North American trout rivers. And the tone is far from tweedy, with plenty of good humor and trivia mixed into the excellent info. --Langdon Cook, Sports & Outdoors editor
reviewed:"A great place to start learning the art of flyfishing When I first started to flyfish back in the day, this was the only guide I had to get me started. Fortunately, it gave me the first step I needed to have the confidence to get out there and keep trying to catch bigger and better fish. A few years later I'm still flyfishing and rarely if ever get skunked. Over the years I've read endless amounts of articles, books, you name it, but this one covered everything I needed to know. To this day still haven't learned many other good tips that hadn't already been covered by Kaminsky. I recommend it.
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Completely Revised
by Tom Rosenbauer; 2007; paperback; 288pp
"This Guide may be the single most valuable item a novice angler can buy . . . and most of us would do well to re-read the sections on flies, fly selection, and stream tactics every spring before pulling on our waders for the first time."
--Rod & Reel
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