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Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 7 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,976 ratings — published 1986
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,336 ratings — published 1999
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 686 ratings — published 2000
Standing in a River Waving a Stick (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 786 ratings — published 1999
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,024 ratings — published 1990
The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.37 — 692 ratings — published
All the Time in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 587 ratings — published 2023
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 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 250 ratings — published 2015
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,690 ratings — published
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 703 ratings — published 2020
All Fishermen Are Liars (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 722 ratings — published 2014
The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men (The Pruett Series)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.35 — 636 ratings — published 1989
Reading the Water: A Fly Fisher's Handbook for Finding Trout in All Types of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 1988
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,025 ratings — published 1676
Fly Fishing Small Streams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.28 — 393 ratings — published 1989
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.91 — 133 ratings — published 2004
The View From Rat Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.37 — 446 ratings — published 1988
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.37 — 488 ratings — published 2003
The way of a trout with a fly and some further studies in minor tactics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2010
Small Streams and Daydreams: A Contrarian's View of Fly-fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 143 ratings — published
Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 261 ratings — published 2010
Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die: Fly-fishing Experts Share More of the World's Greatest Destinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2011
Upstream: Fly Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2000
Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 468 ratings — published 1996
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.68 — 514 ratings — published 2021
Fool's Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 549 ratings — published 2008
River Music: A Fly Fisher's Four Seasons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.20 — 49 ratings — published 2001
Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.45 — 38 ratings — published 1999
A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 552 ratings — published 2017
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.50 — 173 ratings — published 2011
The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What A Lifetime on the Water Has Taught Me About Love, Work, Food, Sex, and Getting Up Early (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.72 — 47 ratings — published 2002
I've Never Met an Idiot on the River: Reflections on Family, Fishing, and Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.86 — 311 ratings — published 2011
Handbook of Hatches: Introductory Guide to the Foods Trout Eat & the Most Effective Flies to Match Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.27 — 118 ratings — published 1987
Complete Photo Guide to Fly Fishing: 300 Strategies, Techniques and Insights (The Freshwater Angler)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005
Caddisflies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.53 — 45 ratings — published 1981
Watermark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1998
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,181 ratings — published 1976
Flyfishing the High Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.21 — 147 ratings — published 1984
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.82 — 263 ratings — published 1993
A Flyfisher's World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.31 — 26 ratings — published 1996
No Shortage of Good Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 615 ratings — published 2011
Brook Trout and the Writing Life: The Intermingling of Fishing and Writing in a Novelist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.18 — 60 ratings — published 1999
The Dry Fly: New Angles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 21 ratings — published 1990
Learn to Fly-Cast in a Weekend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2008
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 530 ratings — published 1992
Dave Whitlock's Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 23 ratings — published 1984
The Trout and the Fly: A New Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1984
Good Life Wasted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.03 — 118 ratings — published 2003
Catskill Rivers: Birthplace of American Fly Fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.64 — 14 ratings — published 1983
The Battenkill : An Intimate Portrait of a Great Trout River- Its History, People, and Fishing Possibilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1993
“A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine.”
― Trout Bum
― Trout Bum
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always – are those he recollects in tranquillity, as wintry weather lashes the land without, and he, snug and warm, ties new patterns of dry-fly, and remembers the leaf-dapple upon clear water and the play of light and the eternal dance of ranunculus in the chalk-stream. A cricket match between two riotously inexpert village Second XIs is no less an instance of timeless, of time caught in ritual within an emerald Arcadia, than is a Test at Lord’s, and we who love the greatest of games know that we do indeed catch a fleeting glimpse of a spectral twelfth man on every pitch, for in each re-enactment of the mystery there is the cumulation of all that has gone before and shall come after. Et ego in Arcadia.”
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