The best fly fishing books ever written

There are two main kinds of fishing books I read: technical, and fishing lore. Technical books will give you new methods and ideas to try out. Fishing lore will give you inspiration.

I've tried to divide them up a little bit better here. Start with the Beginners' shelf, and follow your heart from there.

(Despite my bluster up top this is an incredibly incomplete and work-in-progress list.)

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Beginners' shelf

• Curtis Creek Manifesto: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the Strategy, Finesse, Tactics, and Paraphernalia of Fly Fishing, Sheridan Anderson
• Simple Fly Fishing, Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Mauro Mazzo

Lore

• Trout Bum, John Gierach
• Traver on Fishing, Robert Traver

Fiction

• A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean
• The River Why, David James Duncan

Fish behavior

• In the Ring of the Rise, Vincent Marinaro

Bugs

• Caddisflies, Gary Lafontaine
• The Complete Book of Western Hatches: An Angler's Entomology and Fly Pattern Field Guide, Rick Hafele and Dave Hughes

Nymphing

• Dynamic Nymphing, George Daniel
  Read our conversation with George Daniel on the publication of Dynamic Nymphing.

Technical

• Fly Fishing Evolution, George Daniel
• Western Fly-Fishing Strategies, Craig Mathews

Montana

• Inventing Montana, Ted Leeson
• The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide, New and Revised, Craig Mathews and Clayton Molinero
• Fly Fishing Yellowstone National Park: An Insider's Guide to the 50 Best Places, Nate Schweber
• Fly Fishing the Madison, Craig Mathews and Gary LaFontaine

Michigan

• Rivers of Sand: Fly Fishing Michigan And The Great Lakes Region, Josh Greenberg
• Trout Water: A Year on the Au Sable, Josh Greenberg

Oregon

• Fly Fishing in Oregon, Madelynne Sheehan