Do you want to know a great resource that you can use for free? It’s a book cataloguing system and I only discovered it today. It saved me a lot of manual slog that I was going to have to do as a review source for this website. Its called Library Thing.
I have 109 fishing books that I’ve collected over the years and I treasure every one. Some I’ve read many times and they’ve been my inspiration as well as source of learning. Most of the enjoyment I’ve had and fish I’ve caught came out of these books.
109 books is about 3 metres of bookshelf and about 25,000 pages of valuable information in many different forms … flyfishing pictures, drawings, printed words, fly tying recipes, and advice sometimes conflicting, always valued.
Here’s my list of books and you can see the full information and get a free library account with Library Thing here as well.
Title and Author
A Man May Fish T.C.Kingsmill Moore
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Norman Maclean
African Angler Charles Norman
African Fly-fishing Handbook Bill Steele-Hansford
African Fly-Fishing Safari Karl Lane
An Okavango Season Malcolm Meintjes
Angler’s Companion
Coarse Fishing Richard Walker
Compleat Tangler Thelwell
Conrad Voss Bark on Fly Fishing Conrad Voss Bark
Distant Waters: The Greatest Fly-fishing Worldwide Nick Lyons
Dream Fishing Trevor Housby
Dry Fly: New Angles Gary Lafontaine
Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life
Fisherman’s Fall Roderick L. Haig-Brown
Fisherman’s Spring Haig-Brown Roderick Langmere
Fisherman’s Summer Haig-Brown Roderick
Fisherman’s winter Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown
Fishing Henry Beard
Fishing and Thinking A.A. Luce
Fishing Forays: Distinguished Companion to the Rivers, Lochs and Stillwaters of
Great Britain and Ireland Lawrence Tom Birley David
Fishing in Wild Places David Street
Fishing the Dry Fly Dermot Wilson
Flies and Flyfishing in South Africa Blackman Jack
Flies for South African Waters: A Waterside Guide to Fly Selection Bill Hansford-Steele
Fly Fishing Around the World Tony Pawson
Fly Fishing for Salmon and Sea Trout Arthur Oglesby
Fly Fishing for Trout Bob Church
Fly Fishing in Salt Water Lefty Kreh
Fly Fishing Tactics The Flyfisherman Magazine
Fly Fishing, Simple to Sophisticated Al Kyte
Fly patterns: An international guide Taff Price
Fly-Fishing in Southern Africa (Fly Fishing International Series) Robert
Brandon-Kirby
Fresh and Saltwater Fly Fishing in Southern Africa Norman Charles
Freshwater Fishing in South Africa Salomon Michael
From Greenheart yo Graphite 100 years of Trout in Natal Alletson DJ
Hardys Book of Fishing Patrick Annesley
Hnting Trout Angles and Anecdotes on Trout Fishing Sutcliffe Tom
Imitations of the trout’s world Bob Church
In the Ring of the Rise Vincent C. Marinaro
Instant Fishing Richard Gordon
Lake, Loch and Reservoir Trout Fishing R.I. Millichamp
Lee Wulff on Flies Lee Wulff
Life in Lakes and Rivers T.T.Macan
Mastering the Nymph Gordon Fraser
Masters on the Dry Fly
Masters on the Nymph
Mean-mouthed, Hook-jawed, Bad News Son-of-a-fish Wolf Avni
My Way with a Trout Sutcliffe Tom
My Way with Trout Arthur Cove
Nedbank Guide to Flyfishing in Southern Africa Wolhuter Louis
Nedbank Guide to Flyfishing in Southern Africe 4th Ed Wolhuter Louis
Nedbank Guide to Flyfishing Venues in Southern Africa Wolhuter Louis
Nymphs and the Trout Frank Sawyer
On the Trout Stream With Joe Humphreys Joe Humphreys
Pike Fred Buller
Poul Jorgensen’s Modern Trout Flies
Presentation Gary A. Borger
Prospecting for Trout: Fly Fishing Secrets from a Streamside Observer (An Orvis
Guide) Tom Rosenbauer
Reeling in: Autobiography Arthur Oglesby
Reflections on Flyfishing Tom Sutcliffe
Remarkable Flyfishing Destinations of Southern Africa Malcolm Meintjes
River Trout Fly Fishing Peter Lapsley
Rivers of Ireland: A Flyfisher’s Guide Peter O’Reilly
Rod and Line Ransome Arthur
Rod Building for Amateurs Walker Dick
Rod, Pole or Perch: Field Guide to Anglers Colin Willock
Salar the Salmon Henry Williamson
Sea Trout Fishing: A Guide to Success Hugh Falkus
Sex, Death and Fly-Fishing John Gierach
Shell Book of Angling
Some Flyfishing Waters of the Cape CPA
Sotheby’s Guide to Fly Fishing for Trout Charles Jardine
Sport in Ireland Wilkinson SB
Stalking Trout: A Serious Fisherman’s Guide Les Hill
Still Water Dry Fly Fishing R. Fogg
Still-water Angling Richard Walker
Stillwater Trout Fishing (Fishing Skills) Tony Whieldon
Success with Trout Martin Cairncross
The Art of Sea Trout Fishing Charles C. McLaren
The Complete Book of Flyfishing
The essence of flycasting Mel Krieger
The Even Tempered Angler Louis Rubin
The Flytier’s Craft Michael Shanks
The Game Angler in Ireland Ken Whelan
The Longest Silence A Life in Fishing McGuane Thomas
The new compleat angler Stephen Downes
THE PAINTED STREAM. A River Warden’s Life Robin ARMSTRONG
The Penguin Book of Fishing Ted Lamb
The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout Brian Clarke
The South African Fly-Fishing Handbook Riphagen Dean
The Suggestive Fly Fisher Meintjies Malcolm
The Trout and the Fly: A New Approach Brian Clarke
The Wild Trout. The Natural History of an Endangered Fish Rod, Greenhalgh,
Malcolm Sutterby
The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide Craig Mathews
To Rise a Trout John Roberts
Trout and Salmon Loughs of Ireland: A Fisherman’s Guide Peter O’Reilly
Trout and Salmon of the World Silvio Calabi
Trout and the Fly Brian Clarke
Trout and the Sub-surface Fly Lou Stevens
Trout Fishing Brian Furzer
Trout from Still Waters Peter Lapsley
Trout in South Africa Bob Crass
Trout Lochs of Scotland Bruce Sandison
Trout on the Veld Meintjies Malcolm
What the Trout Said: About the Design of Trout Flies and Other Mysteries Datus
Proper
Where the Bright Waters Meet Harry Plunket Greene
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