Fishing Memoir Books Directory
Our Fishing Memoir Books directory has listings for the most popular Fishing Memoir Books and some hard to find titles too. Browse through the selections to find the resource that best fits your fishing needs.
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50 Years a Hooker This book is the autobiography of Frank Mundus, shark fisherman--the real "Quint" and inspiration for the character from the movie "Jaws." Read about how it all began, and of the fish and people that helped make it happen! Every story is 100 percent true.
A Flyfisher's World By turns canny, hilarious, inquiring, and philosphical, A Flyfisher's World is a rich collection of articles and essays by one of America's most popular writers about fly-fishing. Nick Lyons writes of a revealing fishing trip he had with his grown son, odd characters he has met while pursuing his passion, reflections he had from a hospital bed, and more
A Jerk on One End ... Robert Hughes's memoir of the fishing life begins like a lazy day on the water. A few observations on the sport's history, a look at the literature, even some comical reminiscences about trying to harpoon tuna and battle tarpon. But then Hughes returns to the piers of his native Sydney. It is there that the boy who would turn into the preeminent art critic of his generation began educating his eyes.
A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home Pleasant essays--five of which won first-prize awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America--on a youth spent fishing and canoeing the lakes and rivers of northern Michigan, by Dennis (It's Raining Frogs and Fishes, 1992--not reviewed). Having grown up in the 1960's in the vicinity of Michigan's Silver and Long lakes and Au Sable and Boardman rivers, Dennis is able to write of waters once teeming with fish but now barren--and, happily, of once-barren waters now full of fish.
A Sportsman's Life ... Orvis is a nearly 150-year-old Vermont-based sporting goods and mail-order company with sales approaching $200 million. Although overshadowed by such rivals as Eddie Bauer and L. L. Bean, Orvis is known for selling a "way of life" and connection to its customers. Certainly anyone who has ever fly-fished in New England is familiar with the name. Perkins bought a foundering Orvis in 1965
Adventures of Woods and Seas The purpose of this book, Adventures of Woods & Seas, is to share and expose the vast range of outdoor experiences available. With knowledge, we may avoid fighting over the "proper use" of our resources. Let's share this wonderful outdoor realm and the passion of various pursuits. One user group might not fully embrace or understand the motivation of the other. However, the interest, the passion of pursuit, are based on similar footings. The resources provide the mutually shared stage. Let's protect this stage, together. This outdoor world is finite, fragile--in need of shared stewardship.
American Fly Fishing  
An Honest Angler ... These columns, articles, and letters from the late fly-fishing writer Sparse Grey Hackle (a.k.a. Alfred W. Miller) will delight those familiar with his work but will sometimes leave the newcomer in the dark. Hackle (18921983), who took his nom de plume in the 1930s when he wrote ``furious articles'' protesting the pollution of Catskill Mountain streams, is best remembered for his classic Fishless Days, Angling Nights.
And Then We Went Fishing ... From the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy comes a dramatic, autobiographical tale--two stories deftly woven into an engrossing narrative--in which a child's birth triggers memories of the author's father's death . A memorable recounting of Benedict's own rites of passage.
Angling Baja ...  
Another Lousy Day in Paradise The usually reliable Gierach treads tepid waters in this latest collection of fly-fishing pieces. A Colorado outdoorsman, Gierach (Dances with Trout, 1994) has always included an element of humor in his work, but here he seems more intent on working in wry, curmudgeonly one-liners than he does on telling a good fishing story
Bass Master Shaw Grigsby ... Bass are the toughest, most finicky, and most difficult fish to catch -- unless you know where and how to fish for them. As a veteran of the top tier of tournament fishing, Shaw Grigsby certainly does. Taking readers into the exciting, highly competitive arena of tournament bass fishing, where a fisherman must respond to the mysterious "beckoning of the waters."
Bass on the Fly The majority of America's freshwater anglers fish for bass with spinning or casting rods and some kind of hardware: plugs, spinnerbaits, plastic worms. But A. D. Livingston says that, in many situations, the best way to take bass is with the fly rod. And despite fly fishing's reputation as an expensive, elitist sport, taking bass on the fly can be by far the least expensive way to go
Believing it All Parent, in a follow-up to Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk (1996), shares the inspiration he received and lessons he learned from spending time with his two small sons. With his chatty, storytelling style, his essays and the anecdotes they contain are enjoyable and humorous, but never cute.
Breakfast at Trout's Place ... The worked-over fly-fishing memoir gets a fresh sheen with Ken Marsh's tales from the Alaskan outback. A lifelong resident and editor of Alaska Magazine, Marsh has no need for wide-eyed descriptions of hairy bush plane flights or last-frontier soliloquies. Moreover, he gracefully sidesteps previous touchstones of the genre such as midlife crisis, midlife travel, and midlife discovery that equate fish as savior
Bush Pilot Angler : A Memoir What a splendid discovery this journal is. Its pages document Wulff's hard work in establishing the remote Canadian salmon and trout fisheries he first saw from the air, his joys on the stream and in the air, his love for the pristine land and its bounty, his uphill battles with native Newfoundlers over concerns about overfishing, and his triumphs--and calamities--in search of memorable fish.
Captain Frank Mundus " Monster Man" "They don't build them like Frank Mundus anymore . . . The leathery, prank-loving charter boat captain who has become a legend earning the name: Monster Man. This is his story . . . Hunting down monsters has been called the ultimate challenge.
Carrie Stevens ... This is an odd book. Playboy of the month for June, 1997, Carrie Stevens had distinctive flame-red hair and firm, natural breasts. However, in the three years since then, she appears to have gone downhill in the looks department, and moved to an alternative career as a fisherwoman
Cast Again  
Chalkstream Chronicle ... Twenty years ago Patterson left a London ad agency to live and fish along a small river. He has spent the time observing the behavior of flies, trout, water, and other fishers on his beat. As a result, he has developed unorthodox styles of tying--emphasizing behavior over appearance--that have became orthodox owing to their success.
Complete Angler ... You certainly can't accuse Prosek of shrinking from a challenge. Walton's Compleat Angler is one of the towers of English literature. Not only the third most reprinted volume in the language (after the Bible and Shakespeare), it is the rare book that has spanned several centuries of readership without ever going out of print.
Confessions of a Fly Fishing Addict Nick Lyons has been called a "happy combination of angler-poet-romantic," and nowhere is this-and his compulsion to fish-more in evidence than in Confessions of a Fly Fishing Addict. From his spirited defense of "fish tales" to his exploration of dozens of moments in a "fly-fishing addict's" life, this collection of fifty essays is sure to delight his legions of fans
Country/City: A Year At The River  
Crosscurrents A fireside collection of fly-fishing pieces, touched withbut not drowned infolksy wisdom and whimsy, from Gray's Sporting Journal editor and columnist Babb. These short essays are divided into two groups: those inspired by Babb's youth in, and return visits to, East Tennessee, and those that find him fishing here and there around the world, mostly in his current home state of Maine.
Dances With Trout Gierach continues to produce entertaining essays on the joys of fly-fishing, a subject so much talked about that it's a marvel anyone has anything of interest left to say. But his eighth fly-fishing book is just as entertaining as the others. Unlike most fly-fishing authors, he hasn't forgotten his fishing roots using a cane pole and worms to hook bluegills near his Wisconsin hometown.
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders ... There are two things no dedicated fly-fisher can really have enough of: a decent selection of flies on the stream and a decent selection of John Gierach off of it. Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders should go a good way toward satisfying the latter. In this "greatest hits" of essays culled from Gierach's previous collections
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury Reading Leaky Waders is like recalling some memorably productive afternoons on the stream with an old fishing buddy.
Deep Currents : Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown New Book Offers a Very Personal Look at the Private Life of Roderick Haig-Brown Deep Currents Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown by VALERIE HAIG-BROWN For many years Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown led very public lives. Roderick's fame as a writer, a conservationist and a judge made him a widely recognized public figure.
Deep Enough for Ivorybills Jim Kilgo was born and raised not far from the bottomlands of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina, but it was not until he was grown that he began to respond to the powerful lure of the forests, fields and swamps of the South. For Kilgo, reentry into the wilderness becomes a window on the life that men can lead in nature. His discoveries illuminate the truth that the lives of human beings are an integral part of the larger rhythms of nature and the seasons.
Down in Bristol Bay ... "The frontier," writes Bob Durr, "has always been a peculiarly American obsession. In the early days it meant the possibility of a new start: if you were down on your luck ... you could head west into the unknown. But it was more than that, too...." The very existence of a frontier meant that there was a way out, an escape from the confines and corruption of civilized life.
Draggerman's Haul ...  
Early Love and Brook Trout Early Love evokes a sense of almost trespassing through one of James Prosek's sketchbooks. This fourth book by the precociously prolific author-artist is quite personal, rife with exuberance about fishing and falling in love, and, not surprisingly, the angst that comes with failed relationships.
Earth Is Enough ... Middleton writes with humor and compassion of these witty and articulate eccentrics who changed his life and taught him to love and respect the earth and its creatures.
Editors in the Stream  
Even Brook Trout Get the Blues Fine, sweetly written essays on the sport and art of fly- fishing, by a writer who thinks of himself as ``a reporter rather than an expert.'' A Colorado outdoorsman, Gierach (Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing, 1990) views fly-fishing as ``a healthy antisocial sport'' that ``has become a highly refined ritualistic food-gathering technique in which damned little food gets gathered.
Faithful Travelers ... I found this novel to be a sweet, enduring, detailed description between a father and his daughter; as well as an insighful discovery of the soul. I recommend this book to anyone; especially those seeking a deeper meaning and further explantation between a father and a daughters love!
Fireside Angler  
Fishing Bamboo Whether you're interested in fishing or collecting bamboo fly-rods--or you simply enjoy good outdoors writing--you'll find it all in this paean to the slightly arcane world of the bamboo enthusiast. There's enough information here for those in need of an overview, including chapters on the history of bamboo rod-building.
Fishing for God: One Man's Spiritual Quest  
Fishing in the Styx  
Fishing Talk ...  
Fishing with My Father This touching compendium of stories, poems, and memoirs explores the time-tested traditions that exist in both fatherhood and fishing, and honors the bonds that unite families through their love of the pastime.
Florida Fishes This book is great. There are not as many pictures as most people would like, but this book does have practicaly all the fish native to Florida. If you fish, Scuba Dive or even Snorkle this book is for you, every Floridian and Fisherman should have this book.
Fly Fishing Small Streams Laced with fishing stories and a guest appearance or two from the inimitable A.K. Best, Gierach's book offers advice on tackle selection, reading water, casting technique, and small-stream scouting. Photos and drawings.
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis Just as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance used motorcycle repair as a metaphor for the examination of self, Howell Raines uses his lifelong experiences as a fly fisherman to explore his life, politics, gender, roles as a son, husband, father, and journalist, and his attitudes toward aging and mortality
Flyfishing : The High Country  
Flywater  
Following the Alaskan Dream Vivid portrayal of southeast Alaska's vanishing fishing industry. Sharing the author's lifetime of experiences I could almost feel salt spray in my face. A must-read for anyone who has lived in this beautiful country, has visited there, or dreams of Alaska.
Fox, Fin, and Feather : Tales from the Field Tales from the field...
Full Creel ... Publisher and writer Lyons brings together a retrospective sampling of his fly-fishing essays. Drawing from seven previous books published over the last 30 years, including My Secret Fishing Life , the book offers a thoughtful look at the angling life, from childhood through old age.
Full Creel: A Nick Lyons Reader Nick Lyons isnt as poetic as Maclean, nor as witty as Gierach, but what he does master is sincerity and honesty. And despite many of his misadventures I'm convinced he is one fine flyfisherman.
Gentleman in the Outdoors ...  
Gila Descending : A Southwestern Journey Gila Descending is a joy to read. M.H. Salmon and his fiesty animal co-pilots have enough chutzpah to keep us laughing; enough literary audacity to delight and educate; and enough love of land, water and wilderness to stir the most hardened conscience.
Good Flies ... It's easy to forget that in between his collections of essays, John Gierach has published a number of slender volumes, each devoted to a single aspect of fly-fishing and usually of a more technical nature. Flyfishing the High Country and Fishing Bamboo come to mind. Some readers may grouse that these tracts are more about one angler's proclivities and lack the lode of quotable lines of the essay collections.
Home Waters : Fishing With an Old Friend When the author discovers suspicious lumps on his 11-year-old golden retriever Nellie, rather than wait for a biopsy and the possibility of further decline, he decides it's time for one last great road trip.
Homer Stevens : A Life in Fishing  
Hooked: Fishing Memoirs  
Hungry Ocean ... The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy.
In Praise of Wild Trout  
In the Slick of the Cricket Who can forget the scene in Jaws when Quint, the weathered, steely-eyed captain scrapes his fingernails down the blackboard and announces to the quibbling town elders that they're dealing with a great white shahk?
Joe and Me ... Sweet, innocent, if not particularly artful, recollections of fishing with a local master. At the age of 15, Prosek (Trout: An Illustrated History, not reviewed) got caught poaching, but he also got a second chance and a lesson in life from the ranger who bagged him: Joe Haines.
Just Fishing With Grandma  
Last Marlin ... His father, Abe, was a superb salesman who parlayed personal charm and client loyalty into success despite a series of debilitating ailments. His mother, Stella, was a painter who numbered among her friends Jackson Pollock and Louise Nevelson; she despised the affluent lifestyle her husband cultivated and viewed his taking a job with her father's lighting-fixture company as a betrayal.
Life Worth Living ... Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman
Little Book of Fishing ... This small illustrated gift book is a collection of evocative stories, essays, and poems drawn from the widest possible range of writers. Here are selections from Ernest Hemingway, P.J. O'Rourke, Red Smith, Lin Sutherland, and many more as they relentlessly pursue fish, fun, and the meaning of life. Photos throughout.
Lone Voyager ... So begins Joe Garland's extraordinary account of the hero fisherman of Gloucester. Incredibly, though Blackburn lost his fingers to his icy misadventure, he went on to set a record for swiftest solo sailing voyage across the Atlantic that stood for decades. Lone Voyager is a Homeric saga of survival at sea and a thrilling portrait of the world's most fabled fishing port in the age of sail
Mattanza : The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishing This book is very well written; it's almost poetic with the lyrical descriptions and vivid images that Theresa Maggio creates with her words. The author also eloquently captures for her readers the conflicting emotions she experienced as a modern American woman viewing unfamiliar cultural practices and dealing with an ancient Sicilian way of life. This against the backdrop of loving the people (and one man in particular) and exploring her heritage as a grandchild of Sicilians.
Mille Lacs ... A first-person account of 30-plus years of adventure, experiences, and fishing savvy in small boats and charter boats on Minnesota's most popular sport fishing lake. What it's like to be an intense fishing guide with a gruelling daily schedule on a huge lake: meeting the challenges of weather, competition on the fishing grounds, matching wits with the fish, and hosting an interesting mix of clientele.
Monster Man : Master Hunter of the Deep "They don't build them like Frank Mundus anymore . . . The leathery, prank-loving charter boat captain who has become a legend earning the name: Monster Man
My Secret Fishing Life This eighteenth book by Lyons, noted fishing writer and publisher, combines short essays and two book-length memoirs to form a kind of autobiography of his life as a fisherman. The text moves away from the stream to treat the author's childhood, family, and marriage, as well as his career change from teaching to publishing.
Next Valley Over In the world according to Charles Gaines, anglers who travel in pursuit of their craft can be classified as either pastoralists or nomads. The former enjoy holing up in their lodges almost as much as they do their fishing holes; the latter don't care much for the amenities, they just like to keep moving, to see what's biting in "the next valley over" of the title.
North of Now ... W.D. Wetherell sings the praises of mountainous western New Hampshire, where he has lived for many years in Thoreauvian simplicity, with wood stove and manual typewriter, without television or computer. His book is made up of little essays on such simple things and on low-maintenance pleasures like reading poetry, stargazing, and collecting local folklore and history.
On the Spine of Time: A Fly Fisher's Journey Among Mountain Streams, Trout, and People Middleton makes fly-fishing a religion with its own vision of nirvana, and if it takes an occasional descent into the nether regions to attain it, the author isn't afraid to supply the grisly details.
Once upon an Isle : The Story of Fishing Families on Isle Royale It is the happiest of chances for us that a boy who lived a very unique childhood grew up to be an illustrator. Howard Sivertson spent a good portion of his childhood living in a fishing colony on primeval Isle Royale, a remote wilderness paradise in northern Lake Superior. Though it is now a U. S. National Park, Isle Royale was for more than one hundred years home to commercial fishermen, a hardy breed who spent most of each year battling primitive living conditions and the unforgiving freshwater sea
One River More ... This essay collection completes Wetherell's trilogy of fishing books that includes Upland Stream (1991) and Vermont River (1993). The book's title comes from the last essay's litany of yearnings, recollections, and regrets, all of which an angler experiences on the last day of trout season. Wetherell, also a novelist, examines such topics as fishing friends, fishing camps, the upper Connecticut River, and the rivers around Yellowstone National Park.
Out on the Deep Blue ... Women, Men, and the Oceans They Fish Though journalists and other outsiders have often written about the perils and rewards of taking to the sea for a living, this is "the first collection written by fishermen themselves," a distinction that proves substantial after reading Out on the Deep Blue. These first-hand accounts by men and women involved in the world's most dangerous occupation are gripping not only because of their authenticity, but because these people represent a slim minority who willingly engage in a daily battle against nature at a time when "85 percent of Americans live in urban or suburban areas," far from any kind of true wilderness. These are gripping stories of quick riches and even quicker death, of fishing seasons that last less than a day, and of jobs that involve hours of tedium interrupted by bouts of frenetic effort.
Pacific Troller - Life on the Northwest Fishing Grounds For four decades writer-photographer Francis (Frank) Caldwell has fished the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California. In this always readable book unfolds a clear, close-up view of the fisherman's day-to-day life. The author shares the excitement of a school of fish biting furiously at dusk, the frustrations and humor of the radiotelephone, the many characters he has known, the close shaves, the storms, the too-frequent tragedies of friends lost at sea, the frightening experience of seeing a UFO off the Oregon Coast one spooky night. Included is a vivid description of the terrible giant wave that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958.
Pursuing Wild Trout ... Author Bob Madgic chronicles his 25 years of fishing for wild trout in the canyon rivers of the central Sierra in California in his book titled, Pursuing Wild Trout: A Journey in Wilderness Values.Madgic states, "the pursuit of wild trout has led me to the discovery that, in wilderness, one can find life's deepest meanings."
Quotable Fisherman This collection of more than 350 memorable quotations about the passion and pleasure of fishing captures the essence of the sport. There are comments by such wonderful writers as Izaak Walton * John Gierach * Ed Zern * Ted Leeson A. J. McClane * Steve Raymond * Charles Ritz Lord Byron * Tom McGuane * Arthur Ransome Art Flick * Ernest Hemingway * And many more
Reflections of a Game Fisher  
Remembrances of Rivers Past Schweibert loves his rivers like all fishermen, and knows their music, their language, and their humor.
River Earth ... River Earth is a personal exploration of family and community in and around the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. In these poignant essays, John Pierce probes the lifelong impact of a teenage boy's loss of a father, and how it led his own sons to a life on the river. He lifts the covers from the seeming tranquility of north Idaho's woods to reveal the personal impact of a friend's fear of racial violence
Rivers of Memory One of the last books written by Harry Middleton before his untimely death, these reflections are living testimony to his powerful and moving writing. Like his best-selling book The Earth is Enough, readers are transported to a world where the beauty of nature, rivers, trout and life combine as one.
Rivers of the Heart : A Fly-Fishing Memoir Dry, intelligent recollections of a fly-fishing life, from Raymond (Steelhead Country, not reviewed, etc.). Raymond has cobbled together 16 essays, grouped under four categories: fishing acquaintances, venues (the Miramichi, Christmas Island, the River Dee, and others), items (flies, cane rods, and an odd-man-out piece on reviewing fishing books), and a mostly humorous miscellany.
Royal Coachman Sailing on prose as liquid as the streams and lakes he fishes, Schullery, one of angling's most prolific and elegant chroniclers, casts some fine lines that gently lure us into his lovely meditations on the development of fly-fishing and its literature. "Though we pride ourselves on our pragmatism," he observes in "The Fisherman's Chaucer," a lovely tribute to Juliana Berners, the medieval mother of all fishing scribes.
Seasonable Angler Nick Lyons's first fishing book, The Seasonable Angler, is the story of a fisherman's year, form the projects and fantasies of an angler's winter through the thrill of a June evening's rise of the Beaverkill, and on to the pleasures and melancholia of autumn trout fishing
Seasons of a Fisherman ... Logger, trapper, guide, magistrate, army officer, radio broadcaster, conservationist, and university chancellor, Roderick L. Haig-Brown, the multitalented Renaissance man of North American angling, considered himself first and foremost a writer. Given the overall quality, range, depth, and grace of The Seasons of a Fisherman, it would be awfully hard to argue
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.
Skipper ...  
Small in the Eye of a River All nine tales and reflections are characterized by a restless, searching quality, but each registers a unique point of view. In some cases Mele speculates about the elusive properties of the blue-dun necks, as he searches for some ultimate shade and texture, some way to define their delicacy; at other times he seeks the perfect bamboo fly rod, one that will meet all of his exacting dry-fly demands.
Snug Harbor: Adventures of a New England Fishing Family  
Sportsman's Legacy  
Standing in a River Waving a Stick John Gierach, America's favorite trout bum and author of such wise and humorous collections as Dances with Trout and Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing, sets this volume in motion by testing the waters of the philosophical stream: "Lately," he ponders, "I've been thinking about what makes a good fly-fisher, possibly the last fair question of the twentieth century that might actually have an answer.
Steelhead Savvy Jim Bedford, the all-time great walking steelhead, reveals his methods and theories that have led to his releasing many thousand of winter and summer steelhead throughout their range in the past 30 years. Just one of his many tips is worth the price of this book!
Streams of Consciousness : Adventures in Fly Fishing Streams of Consciousness : Adventures in Fly Fishing
Tales From Delaware Bay Tales From Delaware Bay is a collection of stories of Watermen who earn their living from the bay. The stories are non-fiction accounts of crabbing, boating, trapping, net fishing and sports fishing
The Adventures of Gray Wolf Autobiography in short story format of 82 years of adventure in the great outdoors. Excerpts include Canadian wilderness experiences as a bush pilot, moose hunting, and fishing experiences. Survivor of two aircraft crashes, face to face encounters with bears, a tour of duty in the Pacific during WWII, Gray Wolf's wisdom and philosophy on life leaps from every page. This book is his story in his own words. It encompasses a life-time of vivid memories and is a book of history in its own right.
The Earth Is Enough : Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men Middleton writes with humor and compassion of these witty and articulate eccentrics who changed his life and taught him to love and respect the earth and its creatures.
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors In The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the acquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him -- in New York's Grand Central Terminal, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida Keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains
The Fox and the Orchid  
The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
The Last Good Water: In his latest collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater of Michigan.
The Longest Silence : A Life in Fishing A masterful writer. Take your time and absorb this one as you read it.
The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass:  
The River Why An excellent fictional story covering spirituality and fly fishing based on a river along the Oregon coast.
The Skipper : A Fisherman's Tale  
Traver on Fishing Nick Lyons presents Traver on Fishing, a treasury of essays and yarns by the author known as Robert Traver (pen name of former Michigan DA and judge John Voelker, who, following the success of Anatomy of a Murder, was able to retire from his legal work to fish full-time).
Trolling on the Edge : The Story of a Noyo Fisherman  
Trout : An Illustrated History Perhaps no one loves trout as much as James Prosek, who by age 20 journeyed thousands of miles and through 49 states to depict in watercolors all 70 subspecies of North American wild trout at least four times for this definitive volume on the subject. He details the diversity and brilliant range of colors in the species with his paintings, which are accompanied by written snippets.
Trout and Salmon Trout and salmon, the aristocracy of freshwater game fish, can be found from the beautiful West Coast to New Zealand to Russia to the mighty rivers of Norway. In this stunning full-color book, Val Atkinson has captured with inimitable skill the beauty of the trout and salmon landscape--quietly gurgling streams, secret river pools, broad mirror-like lakes.
Trout Bum While most of us fly-fish to escape from daily life, for John Gierach and his friends fly-fishing IS a way of life. They are trout bums. But John Gierach is also an exceptional writer. The essays in Trout Bum are reflective, bitingly humorous and enormously wise in the ways of fishing and men.
Trout Country Bob Saile takes us on a journey through Colorado with a fly rod in hand, and trout in mind. As a long time sports writer, he definitely knows what he is talking about here, but unfortunately, he is not a great writer. The content isn't particulary groundbreaking, and the writing is perhaps best described as ordinary, newspaper coloum style.
Trout Dreams ... A significant part of what has made fly-fishing such a widely read-about sporting activity is that it is populated with a world of colorful individuals. Merritt, who has written for numerous sporting magazines, assembles a collection of profiles of many of the "big names" in the fly-fishing world of our day.
Upland Stream ... In the second book of his trilogy on his passion for fishing, Wetherell explores the meandering streams of his beloved New England, the ashen rivers of Yellowstone Park during the great fire of 1988, and the pristine lochs of Scotland. With humor, introspection, and wonder, Wetherell chronicles his quest for fresh streams and a deeper solace of the spirit.
Vermont River ... Cleveland Plain Dealer Vermont River has been praised by lovers of the outdoors as a classic of its genre. Minneapolis Star Tribune Vermont River will appeal to anyone who fell in love with A River Runs Through It.
View from Rat Lake Archie and John go fishing. That sums up the book about as well as "a couple of teenagers fall in love" sums up Romeo & Juliet. This collection of short stories is a delightful read and is a worthy addition to any collection
Voyagers of the Chilcotin  
Watermark Here in the pages of Watermark, you will find the unforgettable record of a unique odyssey--a stunning photographic and written account of fly fishing past and present in the eastern waters of North America. The trip begins on the trout streams of southern Appalachia and moves northward.
Watermark Guide to Fishing in Kansas  
West of Key West Any saltwater fly fisherman will recieve alot of pleasure from this book. Excellant accounts of flats fishing in the keys along with wonderful photography makes this a great coffee table book that actually has substance
What the River Knows ... At the age of forty-two, Wayne Fields set upon a sort of pilgrimage when he waded the near twenty-mile stretch of a small river in northern Michigan with fly rod in hand. He emerged with a beautiful and poignant memoir, a meditation on families and aging, and a whimsical response to what time, and streams, and those we care about bring into our lives.
What Were You Thinking? Look back on your youth and just about everyone participated in some wild or crazy things. Many were hilarious and you have often retold them. But there were some experiences that even now you can't believe you did or lived through them. Certainly, you hope your children never follow in your footsteps.
When the Whalers Were Up North : Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic Oral histories of the 100 years of British and American whaling off the east coast of Canada and in Hudson Bay, as experienced by the native people who fed, clothed, and hunted with the whalers. Illustrated with modern drawings (some in color), and photographs from the period.
Where the Trout Are All As Long As Your Leg Gierach has known since childhood that "the secret places are the soul of fishing." It was, in fact, a boyhood adventure to a forbidden pool deep in the woods that awakened his love for the contemplative joys of fishing and for the magical places so basic to the mythology fly-fishermen share
Wishing My Father Well... Wishing My Father Well is a moving intergenerational memoir in the spirit of James Prosek's Joe and Me and James Dodson's Faithful Travelers that passes down the wisdom of a silent father--an unprepossessing man who was "closer to nature than the rest of us"--and opens our eyes to fly-fishing's seductive power to unite people in a shared appreciation of the majesty and serenity of nature
Working Thin Waters ... Oysterman, freight hauler, salvager—for some seven decades, Captain Larry Malloy, Jr. made his living from the “thin” waters of the Connecticut coast and Long Island Sound, taking on “all manner of work legally available to someone with a boat,” as Stephen Jones remarks. Malloy weathered the Depression and the hurricane of ’38, the submarines of the Cold War and the yachts of the ’80s and ’90s, and, a gifted if laconic raconteur, he is able to recall and describe it all with clarity, vividness, and wry humor.
Year of the Raven