The American Angler's Book Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish and the Art of Taking Them with Instructions in Fly-Fishing, Fly-Making, and Rod-Making and Directions for Fish-Breeding, to which is appended Dies Piscatoriae Describing Noted Fishing-Places, and The Pleasure of Solitary Fly-Fishing is an early American angling book by Thaddeus Norris (1811-1877) first published in 1864.

[1] The American Angler's Book provides encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of fishing as practiced in North America in the mid-1800s.

[2] Shortly after its publication, the New York Times praised the work as encyclopedic and well illustrated on the subject of angling.

It also recognizes the need to conserve stocks of fish and emphasizes the qualitative and reflective nature of the sport.

Norris set about defining the gentle American angler by using negation and denial to slip past ambiguities; the lion's share of his introduction was devoted to a homily filled with proscriptions.