321 books
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57 voters
Fishing Books
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,341,501 ratings — published 1952
Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 52 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,907 ratings — published 1986
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,057 ratings — published 1976
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,281 ratings — published 1999
The River Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,810 ratings — published 1983
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 995 ratings — published 1990
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,658 ratings — published 1997
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,867 ratings — published 1997
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,002 ratings — published 1676
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,587 ratings — published
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 678 ratings — published 2000
Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 452 ratings — published 1996
Standing in a River Waving a Stick (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 764 ratings — published 1999
The View From Rat Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.38 — 437 ratings — published 1988
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,939 ratings — published 2017
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.55 — 17,320 ratings — published 2007
Still Life With Brook Trout (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 341 ratings — published 2005
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.32 — 521 ratings — published 1992
Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.35 — 479 ratings — published 1994
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling (Audio CD)
by (shelved 17 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.09 — 828 ratings — published
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 17 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 473 ratings — published 2003
A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 538 ratings — published 2017
A River Runs Through It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,344 ratings — published 1976
Fool's Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 541 ratings — published 2008
All Fishermen Are Liars (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 704 ratings — published 2014
The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing (Little Books)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 420 ratings — published 2010
Fly Fishing Small Streams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.27 — 384 ratings — published 1989
No Shortage of Good Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 598 ratings — published 2011
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,025 ratings — published 2010
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,929 ratings — published 1999
Trout Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.28 — 197 ratings — published 1960
Bear and Hare Go Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.41 — 485 ratings — published 2014
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,953 ratings — published 2013
Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 328 ratings — published 1991
The Founding Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,239 ratings — published 2002
A River Never Sleeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 178 ratings — published 1944
All the Time in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.41 — 546 ratings — published 2023
Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.24 — 253 ratings — published 1994
The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies: Fifty iconic flies revealing fishing's evolution, regional traditions, and the craft of tying. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 243 ratings — published 2015
In a Village by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.16 — 716 ratings — published 2015
Hemingway on Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.04 — 441 ratings — published 2000
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.24 — 462 ratings — published 2010
Good Flies: Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 143 ratings — published 2000
Trout Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.21 — 140 ratings — published 1974
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,968 ratings — published 1967
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.68 — 487 ratings — published 2021
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 674 ratings — published 2020
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,552 ratings — published 2018
Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 146 ratings — published 2011
“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.”
― Islands in the Stream
― Islands in the Stream













