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Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 7 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,851 ratings — published 1986
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,251 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 — 670 ratings — published 2000
Standing in a River Waving a Stick (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 750 ratings — published 1999
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 970 ratings — published 1990
The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 559 ratings — published
All the Time in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 510 ratings — published 2023
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,506 ratings — published
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 636 ratings — published 2020
All Fishermen Are Liars (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 691 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 4.34 — 619 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 4.07 — 46 ratings — published 1988
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.74 — 984 ratings — published 1676
Fly Fishing Small Streams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.28 — 375 ratings — published 1989
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.94 — 133 ratings — published 2004
The View From Rat Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.38 — 426 ratings — published 1988
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 3 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 459 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 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2010
Small Streams and Daydreams: A Contrarian's View of Fly-fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 137 ratings — published
Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 244 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 4.17 — 12 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 — 447 ratings — published 1996
The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.16 — 236 ratings — published 2015
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.69 — 468 ratings — published 2021
Fool's Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 537 ratings — published 2008
River Music: A Fly Fisher's Four Seasons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 45 ratings — published 2001
Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.47 — 36 ratings — published 1999
A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 527 ratings — published 2017
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.50 — 171 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 — 304 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 4.26 — 116 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 4.50 — 44 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 — 30,558 ratings — published 1976
Flyfishing the High Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.20 — 137 ratings — published 1984
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 3.81 — 254 ratings — published 1993
A Flyfisher's World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.29 — 24 ratings — published 1996
No Shortage of Good Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 588 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 4.17 — 59 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 4.32 — 510 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 4.04 — 118 ratings — published 2003
Dark waters: Essays, Stories, and Articles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 1988
The Angler's Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as flyfishing)
avg rating 4.56 — 16 ratings — published 1976
“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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“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer sense of Arcades ambo, I gather. … I myself hold with Honest Izaak that there is – and that I am a member of – a communion of, if not saints, at least anglers and very honest men, some now with God and others of us yet upon the quiet waters. … The man is a mere brute, and no true angler, whose sport is measured only in fish caught and boasted of. For what purpose do we impose on ourselves limits and conventions if not to make sport of a mere mechanical harvest of protein? The true angler can welcome even a low river and a dry year, and learn of it, and be the better for it, in mind and in spirit. So, No: the hatch is not all that it might be, for if it is warm enough and early with it, it is also in a time of drought; and, No: I don’t get to the river as often as I should wish. But these things do not make this a poor year: they are an unlooked-for opportunity to delve yet deeper into the secrets of the river, and grow wise. … Rejoice, then, in all seasons, ye fishers. The world the river is; both you and I, And all mankind, are either fish or fry. We must view it with judicious looks, and get wisdom whilst we may. And to all honest anglers, then, I wish, as our master Izaak wished us long ago, ‘a rainy evening to read this following Discourse; and that if he be an honest Angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.”
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