Bibliography of fly fishing explained

This general annotated bibliography page provides an overview of notable and not so notable works in the English language regarding the sport of fly fishing, listed by year of first publication. Although not all the listed books are devoted exclusively to fly fishing, all these titles contain significant fly fishing content. The focus of the present page is on classic general texts on fly fishing and its history, together with notable public or university library collections dedicated to fly fishing.

• For readability, the bibliography is contained in three separate lists. For books primarily dedicated to fly tying, fly tackle, regional guides, memoirs, stories and fly fishing fiction see: Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction).
• For species related fly fishing literature see: Bibliography of fly fishing (species related).

Annotations

Annotations may reflect descriptive comments from the book's dust jacket, third party reviews or personal, descriptive and qualitative comments by individuals who have read the book. Some older works have links to online versions in the Internet Archive or Google Books.

Notable fly-fishing library collections

• The Western Washington University Fly Fishing Collection, Bellingham, Washington

• Kienbusch Angling Collection, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey

• The Kenneth H. Rockey Angling Collection, Princeton University Library
• The Daniel B. Fearing Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University

• The LaFontaine Angling Collection, University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, Rare Book Collection, Laramie, Wyoming. Library website
• Frederick and Clara Toppan Angling Book Collection, University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, Rare Book Collection. Library website
• American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont, The museum's library ranks as one of the largest public collections of fly-fishing books in America. Museum website
• The Reed Draper Collection of Angling Books, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
• Harry Hawthorn Foundation Collection, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

• Milne Angling Collection, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, New Hampshire

• George Harvey Fly-Fishing Literature Collection, Penn State University Life Sciences Library, State College, Pennsylvania
• Trout & Salmonid Collection at Montana State University, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

• • Contains the following notable collections:
    • Strung, Norman (Literary manuscripts and correspondence, 1966–1982)
    • Pellicane, Alfred T. (Papers, 1962–2000)
    • Mitchell, Harry B. (Papers, 1953–1965)
    • Agassiz, Louis (Letters, 1854–1858)
    • Salmon Poisoning Research Collection (Papers, 1923–1999)
    • Nick Lyons Ephemera Collection (Corporate records and personal papers, 1932–2005)
    • Behnke, Robert J. (Papers, 1957–2000)
• Angling Oral History Collection

15th-century texts

• Book: Berners, Dame Juliana . Juliana Berners . A Treatise of Fysshynge with An Angle . Wynkyn De Worde . London . 1496 .

17th-century texts

• Book: Dennys, John . The Secrets of Angling . John Harrison . London . 1652 . The Secrets of Angling contains the first known illustration of an artificial fly.^[1] Denny's book was reprinted extensively in the 19th century.
• Book: Walton, Izaak . The Compleat Angler . London . 1653 . Izaak Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly; the fly fishing in his first edition was contributed by Thomas Barker, a retired cook and humorist, who produced a treatise of his own in 1659. In the last edition a second part was added by his friend Charles Cotton, who took up Venator where Walton had left him and completed his instruction in fly fishing and the making of flies.
• Book: Venables, Colonel Robert . Robert Venables . The Experienced Angler or Angling Improved . Richard Marriott . London . 1662 . Extensively cited in Herd's The Fly, Venables work provides great insight into the fly tackle and techniques being used in the 17th century^[2]

18th-century texts

• Book: Brookes, Richard M.D. . The Art of Angling in Two Parts – Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the Art of Angling . T. Lowndes . London . 1766 . Online Version (7th Edition – 1790), the Brookes text, which went through seven editions in the late 18th century, are extremely important in closing the gap of knowledge about fly fishing from the time of Walton to the early 19th century. Brookes is also the first to make written references to fly fishing in saltwater.^[3]
• Book: Best, Thomas . A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling . B. Crosby & Co . London . 1787 . this work first appeared in 1787 and ran through 13 editions.

19th-century texts

• Book: Taylor, Samuel . Angling in All Its Branches . T. M. Longman and O'Kees . London . 1800 . Angling in All Its Branches was one of the first works to address Fly fishing for Salmon and tying salmon flies. Taylor was the first fly fishing author to mention the use of a fly tying vice.^[2]
• Book: Bainbrige, George Cole . The Fly-fishers Guide . Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman . London . 1811 . Bainbridge was one of the first authors to use color plates and The Fly Fisher's Guide contains numerous plates showing fly patterns, materials and tying techniques.^[2]
• Book: The North Country Angler; or the Art of Angling as practiced in the Northern Counties of England . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown . London . 1817 .
• Book: Rennie, James . Alphabet of Scientific Angling for use of Beginners . William Orr . London . 1833 . Dr. Andrew Herd credits Rennie with being the first author to describe the complicated methods of producing fly hooks in the 19th century.^[4]
• Book: Turton, John . The Angler's Manual; or Fly-fisher's Oracle . R. Groombridge . London . 1836 .
• Book: Ronalds, Alfred . The Fly Fisher's Entomology . Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans . London . 1836 . this 231 page, well illustrated treatment of British stream insects of importance to the trout and grayling angler laid the foundation for the detailed works on artificial fly imitation theory that followed for the next 100 years, see also The Fly-fisher's Entomology and Alfred Ronalds.^{[5] [6]}
• Book: Kirkbride, John . The Northern Angler; or Fly-Fisher's Companion . C. Turhham . Carlisle, Scotland . 1837 .
• Book: Wallwork, James . The Modern Angler – Comprising Angling in all Its Branches . James Cheltenham . Manchester, England . 1847 .
• Book: Hutchinson, Horace. G. . Fly-Fishing in Salt and Freshwater . John Van Voorst . London . 1851 .
• Book: Akerman, John Yonge . Spring Tide; or the Angler and his Friends . Richard Bentley . London . 1852 .
• Book: Bowlker, Charles . Bowlker's Art of Angling – Containing Directions for Fly-fishing, Trolling, Making Artificial Flies, etc. . Longman, Brown & Co . London . 1854 . The Art of Angling was in print for over 100 years in 16 editions from 1747 to 1854^[7]

• Book: Cartwright, William (Clericus) . Rambles and Recollections of a Fly-fisher – Illustrated with an appendix contai'ning ample instrucitions to the novice inclusive of fly-making, and a list of really useful flies . Chapman and Hall . London . 1854 .
• Book: Stewart, W. C. . The Practical Angler; or the Art of Trout-Fishing . Adam and Charles Black . Edinburgh . 1857 . Online Version (1st Edition); Online Version (5th Edition, 1867); Online Version (8th Edition, 1883); Online Version (1907 Edition)
• Book: Herbert, Henry William . Henry William Herbert . Frank Forrester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America . 1859 . Geo. E. Woodward . New York . Frank Forrester, the pseudonym for English born Henry William Herbet was one of the most popular sporting writers before the Civil War. He popularized Hunting and Fishing with commercially successful sporting books such as this one,.^{[8] [9]}
• Book: Wade, Henry . Rod Fishing in Clear Waters by Fly, Minnow and Worm – With and Short and Easy Method for the Art of Dressing Flies . Bell and Daldy . London . 1860 .
• Book: Norris, Thaddeus . 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. . E. H. Butler and Co. . Philadelphia . 1864 .

• Book: Otter . The Modern Angler – Containing instructions on the Art of Fly-fishing, Spinning and Bottom-fishing . Alfred & Son . London . 1864 . Otter was a pseudonym for H. J. Alfred of London.^[10]
• Book: Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell . Robert Roosevelt . Superior Fishing; or The Striped Bass, Trout and Black Bass of the Northern States . Carelton Publishers . New York . 1865 .
• Book: Fitzgibbon, Edward . A Handbook of Angling teaching Fly-fishing, trolling, bottom-fishing and Salmon-fishing . Longmans, Green & Co . London . 1865 .
• Book: Burgess, J. T. . Joseph Tom Burgess . Angling: A Practical Guide to Bottom-fishing, Trolling and Fly-fishing . Frederick Warne & Co . London . 1867 .
• Book: Francis, Francis . . . London . 1867.
• Book: Scott, Genio C. . Fishing in American Waters . Harper & Brothers, Publishers . New York . 1869 .
• Book: Hallock, Charles . Charles Hallock . The Fishing Tourist . Harper & Brothers . New York . 1873 .
• Book: Brown, John J. . The American Angler's Guide . D. Appleton & Company . New York . 1876 .
• Book: Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell . Robert Roosevelt . Superior Fishing; or The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Bluefish of the Northern States . Orange Judd . New York . 1884 .
• Book: Orvis, Charles F. . Cheney, A. Nelson . Fishing With The Fly . H. B. Nims & Co . Troy, NY . 1885 .
• Book: Halford, Frederick M. . Frederic M. Halford . Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling with Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most Killing Patterns Together with a Few Hints to Dry-Fly Fishermen. . 1886 . Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington . London . this was Halford's first book, and it launched the opening salvo in the decades long battle pitting fly fishers favoring the floating fly against those endorsing the sunk fly, an argument which today seems as appropriate as the house cook slipping on boxing gloves in preparation to picking out fly droppings from the black pepper.^[11] Nine color plates of hand colored flies. One color chart. Text illustrations. Six 19th century American fly patterns laid in. 136 pp. including index, see also Floating Flies and How to Dress Them.
• Book: Keene, J. Harrington . Fly Fishing and Fly Making for Trout . O. Judd & Co . New York . 1887 .
• Book: Halford, Frederick M. Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. 1889. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. London.
• Book: Mabury, Mary Orvis. Favorite Flies and Their Histories. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. . Boston and New York. 1892.
• Book: Taylor, J. Paul . Fishing and Fishers . Ward, Lock and Company, Limited . London . 1898 .
• Book: Grey of Fallodon, Viscount . Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon . Fly Fishing . 1899 . The Temple Press . London . a readable but comprehensive discussion of wet fly, dry fly, sea-trout and salmon fly fishing written in an easy, story-telling style. See also Fly Fishing (Grey book)^[12] An angling classic^[13]

Fly-fishing history, bibliographies and literature reviews

19th century

• Book: Blakey, Robert . Robert Blakey (writer) . Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations – To which is added A Bibliography of English Writers on Angling . John Russell Smith . London . 1856 .

• Book: Smith, John Russell . A Bibliographical Catalogue of English Writers on Angling and Ichthyology . Tucker & Company . London . 1861.
• Book: Westwood, T. . Bibliotheca Piscatoria – A Catalogue of Books on Angling, The Fisheries and Fish Culture with citations touching on angling and fishing from old English authors . Satchell, T . W. Satchell . Covent Garden, London . 1883.
• Book: Albee, Louise Rankin . Justin Winsor . The Bartlett Collection – A List of Books on Angling, Fishes and Fish Culture in Harvard University Library . Harvard University Library . Cambridge, Miss. . 1896.

20th century

• Book: Hills, John Waller . A History of Fly Fishing for Trout . Phillp Allan & Co . London . 1921 . Dr. Andrew Herd credits Hill with the first attempt to codify the history of fly fishing, albeit Hill's work shows a distinctly British bias and disregard for other European influences. See also A History of Fly Fishing for Trout^[2]
• Book: Radcliffe, William . Fishing From the Earliest Times . John Murray . London . 1921 .
• Book: Goodspeed, Charles E. . Angling in America – Its Early History and Literature . Houghton Mifflin Company . Boston . 1939 .
• Book: Robb, James . Notable Angling Literature . Herbert Jenkins Limited . London . 1945 .
• Book: Starkman, Susan B. . Read, Stanley E. . The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of The University of British Columbia . 1970 . The Library of the University of British Columbia . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . contains a Chronological Appendix Indicating Landmarks in the Evolution of Angling Literature and Some Prefatory Matters Pertaining to the History of The Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation and Propagation of the Principles and Ethics of Fly-Fishing. Contains illustrations.^[14]
• Book: McDonald, John . Quill Gordon . Alfred A. Knopf . New York . 1972 . 0394469895 .
• Book: Gingrich, Arnold . Arnold Gingrich . The Joys of Trout . registration . 1973 . Crown Publishers, Inc . New York . 0517505843 . listed as one of the modern "classics" of angling in the University of New Hampshire Library Milne Angling Collection^[15]
• Book: Gingrich, Arnold . The Fishing In Print – A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature . registration . 1974 . Winchester Press . New York . Gingrich, the well known founding editor of Esquire magazine surveys the major pieces of classic and modern fly fishing literature up through the 1950s. It is an excellent read to get a better understanding of the evolution of the various styles of fly fishing—wet, nymphs, dry, etc. as originally written about by the likes of Halford, Skues, Gordon and Jennings along with many others.

• Book: Waterman, Charles F. . A History of Angling . Winchester Press . Tulsa, Oklahoma . 0876913435 . 1981 .
• Book: Sheets, K. A. . American Fishing Books – A Guide to Values . 1993 . Anglers and Scholars . Ann Arbor, MI . an alphabetical, by author, list of over 2000 titles of American published fishing books with values for collectable copies estimated by the author.
• Book: Schullery, Paul . American Fly Fishing – A History . 1996 . The Easton Press . Norwalk, CT . sponsored by the American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, CT, when Paul Schullery was the managing director, Fly Fishing – A History is probably the most contemporary and complete treatise on the evolution of fly fishing as it is known today.^{[16] [17]}
• Book: Schwiebert, Ernest . Ernest Schwiebert . The Henryville Flyfishers – A Chronicle of American Fly Fishing. 1998 . Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, N.J. . 1886967083 . a notable account by Ernest Schwiebert and one of the seminal books on American Fly Fishing clubs.^[18]
• Book: Schullery, Paul . Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing . 1999 . Simon and Schuster . New York . 0684842467 . while giving due respect to the elders of Fly-Fishing history, Schullery celebrates some lesser-known fisherman and some seldom-appreciated waters, such as the limestone streams of Pennsylvania. He muses on the pursuit of the ever-more perfectly "natural" fly and contrasts that quest with the storied success of the Royal Coachman, perhaps the gaudiest fly ever invented.^[19]
• Book: Bark, Conrad Vos . The Dry Fly – Progress Since Halford . Merlin Unwin Books . Ludlow, UK . 1996 . 1873674228.

21st century

• Book: Herd, Andrew Dr . The Fly . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire . 2001 . 1899600191 .
• Book: Nemes, Sylvester . Two centuries of soft-hackled flies – A survey of literature complete with original patterns . Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania . Stackpole Books . 2004 . 0811700488 .
• Book: Schullery, Paul . If Fish Could Scream – An Angler's Search For The Future of Fly Fishing . Stackpole Books . Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania . 2008 . 978-0811704359 .

• Book: Greenhalgh, Malcolm . Jason Smalley . Fishing Flies: A World Encyclopedia of Every Type of Fly . 2009 . Harper Collins Publishers . London . 978-0007288458.
• Book: Black, William C. . Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies – The Dry Fly and The Nymph, Evolution and Conflict . University of New Mexico Press . Albuquerque, N.M. . 2010 . 978-0826347954.
• Book: Whitelaw, Ian . The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies . Stewart, Tabori and Chang . New York . 2015 . 978-1617691461 .

Biographies

• Book: Day, Frank Parker . Frank Parker Day . The Autobiography of a Fisherman . Doubleday, Page and Company . Garden City, New York . 1927 . in 1927, celebrated Canadian author Frank Parker Day wrote his autobiographical reflections on fishing, family, and, more broadly, humanity's place in the natural world. The Autobiography of a Fisherman, a Canadian fly-fishing classic, is a wonderful recollection of one man's life, with characters struggling in a depressed economy, contending with the social pressures of local village life, and responding in one way or the other to the pull of the big city. Day details his early introduction to fishing, which becomes a lifelong passion, at once a 'gentle art' and a 'disease'.^[20]
• Book: Benn, Ernest . G. E. M. Skues – The Way of a Man with a Trout . Ernest Benn . London . 1977 . 0510225063 .
• Book: . Sampson, Jack . Frank Amato . Portland, Oregon . 1995 . 1571880194 .
• Book: Robson, Kenneth . . A & C Black . London . 1998 . 155821691X .
• Book: Graydon. Hilyard. Leslie. Hilyard. Carrie G. Stevens, Maker of the Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies. 2000. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA . 0811703533.
• Book: Hayter, Tony . F.M. Halford and the Dry-Fly Revolution . 2002 . Rober Hale . London . 0709067739 . the first definitive biography of the father of dry fly fishing, Frederic M. Halford.^[21]
• Book: Berryman, Jack W. . Fly-Fishing Pioneers and Legends of the Northwest . Northwest Fly Fishing LLC . Seattle, WA . 2006 . 978-0977945405 .
• Book: Kreh, Lefty . My Life Was This Big: And Other True Fishing Tales . Skyhorse Publishing . 2008 . 978-1602393592 . – autobiography of Lefty Kreh
• Book: Lawton, Terry . Marryat – Prince of Fly Fishers . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire, UK . 978-1899600489 . 2010 .
• Book: Herd, Andrew . Angling Giants – Anglers Who Made History . 2010 . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire, UK . 978-1899600601.
• Book: Freer, Adrian V W . Dr Bell of Wrington: Pioneer of Reservoir Fly Fishing . 2019 . Welford Court Press . Leicester, UK . 978-1798530146.

General fly fishing

• Book: Francis, Francis . A Book on Angling Being A Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch . J. B. Lippencott . Philadelphia . 1920 . 1st US edition of this 1867 book.
• Book: St John, Larry . Practical Fly Fishing . MacMillan Company . New York . 1920 .
• Book: Harris, J. R. . J. Richard Harris . An Angler's Entomology . Collins . London . 1952 . 978-0007308187. New Naturalist #23
• Book: Ivens, T. C. . . Andre Deutsch . London . 1952 . 978-0233966540. A modern guide to fly fishing in reservoirs and lakes.
• Book: Gingrich, Arnold . Arnold Gingrich . The Well Tempered Angler . registration . Alfred A. Knopf . New York . 1965 . more on the fishing life than how to, but much information about light tackle fly fishing from the founding editor of Esquire. Contains useful bibliographic references to other fly fishing literature.^[22]
• Book: Slaymaker II, S. R. . Simplified Fly Fishing. 1969 . Harper & Row Publishers . New York . a general treatise on the basics of freshwater, warmwater and saltwater fly fishing and tackle.

• Book: Latham, Roger . Bashline, James . Chandler, Leon . DuBois, Donald . Elliot, Bob . Green, Larry . Harvey, George . McNally, Tom . Sosin, Mark . Waterman, Charles . There's No Fishing Like Fly Rod Fishing – The Cortland Series. 1972 . Richard Rosen's Press Inc . New York . 082390248X . a compendium of articles by top fly fishing experts on the various aspects of freshwater, warmwater and saltwater fly fishing and tackle. Sponsored by the Cortland Line Company.
• Book: Hidy, V. S. ''Pete'' . The Pleasures of Fly Fishing . 1972 . Winchester Press . New York . 0876910398 . a beautiful compilation of vignettes on fly fishing accompanied by excellent photography of fly fishing experiences.^[23]
• Book: Migel, Michael J. . The Masters on the Dry Fly . J.B. Lippincott . New York . 1977 . 0397011881 .
• Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Lefty's Little Library of Fly Fishing . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama . 1991–1996 . this is a twenty-five volume set published by Kreh and other authors covers almost every aspect of the sport of fly fishing. Contains the following titles:
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing Techniques and Tactics. 1991 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Modern Fly Casting Method – Mastering the Essential Casts. 1991 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Lefty's Little Tips – 200 Innovative Ideas For Improving Your Fly Fishing. 1991 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 1 – Special Techniques . 1992 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . American Masters Fly Fishing Symposium – Part One – Skills. registration . 1992 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . American Masters Fly Fishing Symposium – Part Two – Tackle. registration . 1992 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing for Bonefish, Permit & Tarpon . 1992 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . American Masters Fly Fishing Symposium – Part Three – The Travel, the Fish, the Life . registration . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Professionals' Favorite Flies – Volume 1 – Dry Flies, Emergers, Nymphs & Terrestrials . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing for Bass – Smallmouth, Largemouth, Exotics . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Middleton, Harry . Lefty's Favorite Fly Fishing Waters – Volume One – United States . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing Knots and Connections . 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Professionals' Favorite Flies – Volume 2 – Streamers, Poppers, Crustaceans and Saltwater Patterns . 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Advanced Fly Casting . 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Fly Fishing The Inshore Waters . 1995 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
  • Book: Kreh, Lefty . Lefty_Kreh . Lefty's Favorite Fishing Stories & Complete Index . 1996 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Goddard, John . Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 2 – Understanding Trout Behavior . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Tullis, Larry . Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 3 – Small Fly Techniques . 1993 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Whitlock, Dave . Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 4 – Imitating and Fishing Natural Fish Foods. 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Teeny, Jim . The Teeny Technique For Steelhead & Salmon . 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Richards, Bruce . Modern Fly Lines . 1994 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Hughes, Dave. Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 5 – Fishing The Four Seasons . 1995 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Tullis, Larry . Fly Fishing For Trout – Volume 6 – Nymphing Strategies . 1995 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Bitton, Dennis . A Field Guide To Fly Fishing . 1995 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Law, Glenn . A Concise History of Fly Fishing . 1995 . Odysseus Editions . Birmingham, Alabama .
• Book: Merwin, John . Streamer Fly Fishing – A Practical Guide to the Best Patterns and Methods of Fishing the Streamer in Rivers, Lakes and *Salt Water . Lyons Press . New York . 2001 . 1585740411 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Leonard, J. Edson . Flies – Their origin, natural history, tying, hooks, patterns and selections of dry and wet flies, nymphs, streamers, salmon flies for fresh and salt water in North America and the British Isles, including a Dictionary of 2200 Patterns . A.S. Barnes and Company . New York . 1950 . 33.
2. Book: Herd, Andrew Dr . The Fly . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire . 2001 . 1899600191 .
3. Book: Herd, Andrew Dr . The Fly . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire . 2001 . 1899600191 . 204 .
4. Book: Herd, Andrew Dr . The Fly . Medlar Press . Ellesmere, Shropshire . 2001 . 1899600191 . 88 .
5. Book: Schullery, Paul . American Fly Fishing – A History . 1996 . 85 . The Easton Press . Norwalk, Conn..
6. Book: Schullery, Paul . Reading The Rise – Streamside Observations on Trout, Flies and Fly Fishing . Stackpole Books . Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania . 2006 . 37 .
7. Book: Nemes, Sylvester . Two centuries of soft-hackled flies-A survey of literature complete with original patterns . Mechanicsburg, PA . Stackpole Books . 2004 . 0811700488 . 1 .
8. Book: Schullery, Paul . Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing . 1999 . 175–176 . Simon and Schuster . New York . 0684842467 .
9. The Reed Draper Collection of Angling Books, Clark Historical Library, Central Michigan University, http://clarke.cmich.edu/draper-angling/page2.html
10. Book: Westwood, T. . Satchell, T . Bibliotheca Piscatoria – A Catalogue of Books on Angling, The Fisheries and Fish Culture with citations touching on angling and fishing from old English authors . W. Satchell . Covent Garden, London . 1883 . 165.
11. Web site: Schullery, Paul, Reading The Rise . 2008-01-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080117211659/http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/history/schullery_reading_rise.aspx . 2008-01-17 . dead .
12. Web site: The Flyfishers Classic Library . 2008-01-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071225002105/http://www.ffcl.com/book.asp?id=10 . 2007-12-25 . dead .
13. MacKenzie, N. A. M., I Went A-Fishing – A Most Informal Foreword in Book: Starkman, Susan B. . Read, Stanley E. . The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of The University of British Columbia . 1970 . 7 . The Library of the University of British Columbia . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada .
14. Web site: The Harry Hawthorn Foundation Collection | The Harry Hawthorn Collection. hawthorn.library.ubc.ca.
15. University of New Hampshire Library, Milne Angling Collection Selected Highlights, Web site: Selected Highlights from the Milne Angling Collection . 2008-01-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070421035930/http://www.izaak.unh.edu/milne/guide.htm . 2007-04-21 .
16. Schreiber, Le Anne, In Short: Nonfiction; Giants of the Rod and Reel, The New York Times Books Review, November 15, 1987
17. Bryant, Nelson, Oitdoors: Books on Fly-Fishing Bring History and Tips, The New York Times Book Review, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/sports/outdoors-books-on-fly-fishing-bring-history-and-tips.html?sq=Paul+Schullery&scp=8
18. Web site: Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20060501062127/http://paflyfishing.org/BrodheadCreek.htm. dead. May 1, 2006.
19. Web site: McAlister, Jamie, The Non-Fiction Bookpage . 2008-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080905195733/http://www.bookpage.com/9903bp/nonfiction/royal_coachman.html . 2008-09-05 . dead .
20. Book: Day, Frank Parker. The Autobiography of a Fisherman. January 1, 2005. University of Toronto Press. 9780802093936 . Google Books.
21. Web site: Lawton, Terry . Fish and Fly Book Review .
22. News: Johnson . George . New & Noteworthy: Home Ground, by Lynn Freed . October 4, 1987 . The New York Times . . Book Review..
23. Book: Serviente, Barry . Angler's Art Catalog . 1996 . 91 . Plainfield, Pennsylvania . The Anglers Art .