Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction)

William Blacker (the Irishman who operated a tackle shop at 54 Dean Street, Soho, London) was acknowledged as one of the best trout and salmon fly dressers of this day.

[3]And probably the most far-reaching of all American fly-fishing books since World War II, Doug Swisher and Carl Richard's Selective Trout (1971) elevated our thinking not only in fly-fishing theory, but also, through its wonderful photographs of insects, in our basic understanding of what the flies really imitated.Herbert Hoover, thirtieth President of the United States, is a modern Izaak Walton.

The present tract is written in the Izaak Walton tradition and perpetuates the tradition of the wily "fresh water trouts" and their ability to outwit man.Nowhere else can you get the sidelights on Gordon, LaBranche, and Hewitt that this book gives you, along with the evocative prose that lets you relive, vicariously, some of the most extraordinary fishing and fishing companions of the last five decades.

These are stories, pure and simple, most of them come from nowhere and go to nowhere and they are about the sort of things we all do, so they seep into your soul and never quite leave you, the way all good writing should.

Unlike many writers, Gierach's style and storylines transfer effortlessly from one continent to another and the book has sold well all over the worldThe loveliest of all her simple narratives is that which I have chosen to stand near the end of this book, – a kind of benediction on anglers.... journalist Sadja provides an engaging history of sport fishing in Pennsylvania.