Bibliography of fly fishing (species related)

His book Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream, put an end to the dry-fly purist and brought the angling world back to sanity.This is a classic and I often wonder if Skues knew it would be when he set pen to paper.

The Way of a Trout shows Skues at the height of his powers and it contains the best of his thinking on fishing nymphs and semi-submerged patterns, illustrated by the sort of asides, stories and vast fund of experience that only he could call upon.A Modern Dry Fly Code was first published in 1950 and it remains a popular work, having been reprinted at least twice.

In retrospect, Marinaro probably kicked off a fashion for tiny patterns that went just a little too far before it corrected itself, but his basic point was well made.Bergman's Trout is the largest (451 pages) ever devoted to one fish in American publishing history.

Wright's first book, Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect (E. P. Dutton, 1972) raised the hackles of some reviewers and weekend fishermen.

Surely, Mr. Smith wrote, he must have been struck dead for blasphemy, for he had the audacity to suggest that the high priest, Frederic Halford, and such sainted subdeacons as Theodore Gordon, George M. L. LaBranche and Edward Ringwood Hewitt had rocks in their heads when it came to floating a tuft of feather and silk over a trout.