 | Trout Bum by John Gierach
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £5.38 Gierach remains, to my mind, the greatest of contemporary angling authors. No one else lets me day dream about fishing the way he does.
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 | The Seasons of a Fisherman by Roderick Haig-Brown
Buy used from: £49.11 Haig-Brown's "Seasons" books are classics. This compendium is a wonderful collection of them.
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 | Going Fishing by Negley Farson
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £21.73 Magical writing and humour.
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 | The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation by Izaak Walton
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £8.73 If Izak hadn't existed, anglers would have had to invent him.
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 | The Fly by Andrew Herd
Buy new: £15.63 / Used from: £17.32 One of the best modern histories of fly fishing
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 | How to Fish by Chris Yates
Buy used from: £7.50 Yates again demonstrates that there's more to fishing than catching fish!
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 | The Trout and the Fly by Brian Clarke
Buy used from: £5.57 Insightful, learn something every time I read it.
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 | FM Halford and The Dry Fly Revolution by Tony Hayter
Buy used from: £33.48 Biography of the dry fly purist.
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 | The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference: To Techniques and Dressing Styles by Ted Leeson
Buy new: £37.69 / Used from: £46.83 More than you'll ever want to know about tying flies
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 | The Habit of Rivers: Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing by Ted Leeson
Buy used from: £1.75 Well written personal meditations on fly fishing.
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 | Spring Creek by Nick Lyons
Buy new: £14.30 / Used from: £2.06 Witty, funny look at fly fishing - a modern classic
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 | The Far from Compleat Angler by Tom Fort
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £2.99 Engrossing collection of stories.
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 | Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference by Dave Hughes
Buy new: £29.26 / Used from: £55.70 Encyclopaedic collection of flies and fly tying techniques.
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 | Fishing on the Frontline by Nick Sawyer
Buy new: £11.87 / Used from: £9.00 Unusual to say the least but utterly fascinating.
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 | Dances with Trout by John Gierach
Buy used from: £2.99 Still my favorite Gierach book.
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 | The Trout and I (Daily Telegraph) by Jon Beer
Buy used from: £15.00 One of Trout and Salmon's best writers
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 | Salmon Fishing by Hugh Falkus
Buy new: £9.13 / Used from: £19.93 If you fish for salmon, a must have book
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 | The Flyfisher's Handbook: The Natural Foods of Trout and Grayling and Their Artificial Imitations by Malcolm Greenhalgh
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £21.70 Bugs, bugs and more bugs.
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 | The Complete Book of the Grayling by Ronald Broughton
Buy used from: £35.00 Title says it all
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 | The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing by Thomas McGuane
Buy used from: £3.22 A wonderfully well-written collection of essay on the ethos of fishing
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 | Chalkstream Chronicle by Neil Patterson
Buy used from: £16.25 From the city to a chalkstream - excellent read but makes you jealous as hell.
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 | Chalkstream: In Praise of the Ultimate River by Charles Rangley-Wilson
Buy used from: £120.00 Their past, present and (hopefully) future.
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 | Still Life with Brook Trout by John Gierach
Buy new: £7.21 / Used from: £1.64 As enjoyable a read as ever.
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 | The Domesday Book of Giant Salmon by Fred Buller
Buy new: £32.50 / Used from: £35.17 A staggering piece of work, totally engrossing.
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 | The Essential G.E.M. Skues
Buy used from: £15.00 Almost goes without saying, essential.
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