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Quick& Easy Guide to Saltwater Fly Fishing
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Our Pal Jeff Currier gives us a great introductory guide to saltwater fly fishing.
An entry-level fly fishing primer that gives you everything you need to get started in the saltwater. Topics covered are: why saltwater?; tides; six types of water; flies and equipment; knots; saltwater fly casting; hooking and landing fish and popular saltwater gamefish. Also includes an equipment checklist, Jeff's fly box, Jeff's saltwater tips and distribution maps of gamefish. Full-color, 34 photos, 40+ watercolors, 16 knot illus, 5 pages of maps; 6x9 inches, 122 pgs.

Fly Fishing for Permit
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The definitive Permit guidebook.

How-to & where-to guide for catching fly fishing's toughest fish! What kind of equip you'll need, thorough instruction on using that equip; detailed info with maps for fishing all the famous permit areas of the world — Mexico's Ascension Bay, Florida Keys, Belize, & many more. Plus, an extensive selection of photos & tying recipes of the most effective flies—including the latest innovative patterns. Bonus appendix of fishing stories from several of the most famous permit fishermen in the world including Gordie Hill, Winston Moore, & more. 92 B&W photos, 16 color photos; 7x10 inches, 240 pgs.

Tarpon On the Fly
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If you want to go Tarpon fishing, you need to read this amazing book.
Tarpon On Fly draws from two primary sources-the observations and knowledge that come with Rob's nearly 20 years' experience as a professional tarpon fishing guide, and the journals and the curiosity of lifelong fly fisherman Donald who came late to tarpon fishing but has savored every hour of it. The knowledge and experience of these two men has led to the definitive book on fly-fishing for the Silver King. Tarpon On Fly includes: in-depth coverage of tarpon biology and behavior; tackle; rigging up; flies for tarpon; setting up to cast; aiming and casting; retrieving; striking; fighting; guides and anglers; tournaments; references; and so much more. Clear illustrations and photagraphy further enhance this classic.

A Passion for Steelhead
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Dec Hogan has fashioned a masterpiece on all of the aspects of Steelhead on the fly.
Based on what Dec learned in 20 years as a steelheader, 15 years of which he guided nearly 200 hundred days a year. It's classic flyfishing for steelhead from A-Z as he saw, lived and taught it. There is something for everyone. From the rank novice to the most seasoned of veteran. Dec covers basic techniques proven on 1000s of steelhead, selecting the best fly for various river conditions, choosing the right tackle for you, effectively covering different water types, learning to spey cast, practical strategies for finding productive streams. 336 pgs.


No other game fish stirs the passion of the dedicated steelhead fly fisher as does this big sea-run rainbow—whether rising to intercept a dry fly skated across a September tailout on a high-desert canyon river in Oregon, or taking a deeply swinging wet fly on a swollen springtime river in coastal British Columbia. From his longtime base on Washington State's legendary Skagit River, highly regarded steelhead guide and fly fisher Dec Hogan has done and seen it all. Now he brings together a lifetime of solid steelheading experience to write a book which, if not the last word on the subject, is destined to be an instant classic. A Passion for Steelhead will cover all the basic techniques proven on thousands upon thousands of steelhead successfully hooked, selecting the best fly for various river conditions, choosing the right tackle for you, effectively covering different water types, learning to spey cast, practical strategies for finding productive streams by the season, and a fascinating and highly original look at how steelhead take (or refuse) a fly, based on the author's personal observations of more than 1,000 summer-run steelhead movements during nine intense seasons. The book will be filled with the author's own impressive color photography and illustrated with many beautiful pencil sketches of two-handed casting and steelhead taking the fly.

Spey Casting
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Spey casting's best instructor, Simon Gawesworth, covers it all in this highly acclaimed book.
Casting with a two-handed rod in the style that dates back to mid-1800s Scotland is no easy challenge. It’s now popular for all types of fishing, especially when obstructions block the backcast & for all kinds of fish - trout, striped bass, salmon, & steelhead. Switch cast, single spey, double spey, snake roll, snap T, & devon switch; discusses the differences between traditional & modern techniques; recommends right rods & lines. Forward by Thomas McGuane. 210 color photos, 66 line drawings; 8.5x11 inches, 256 pgs.

Selective Trout
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The book that changed it all, revised and updated.
Completely revised, expanded, and reset edition of the book that revolutionized modern fly fishing for trout. Includes hatching charts for the whole country, id keys for caddisflies & stoneflies as well as mayflies, the latest entomological info, proven new fly patterns, & much more. 150 illus by Dave Whitlock; Full color throughout; 8.5x11 inches, 240 pgs.

Barr Flies
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Designer of the best selling flies in the world shares his patterns.
John Barr shares his "confidence" patterns, the flies that he carries with him at all times to cover nearly every scenario an angler might encounter on the water. When used at an appropriate time with a good presentation, they are guaranteed to catch fish. Barr tells how he developed each fly, gives tips on when & how to fish them, & explains how he fishes multiple-fly rigs with the Copper John as the center of a 3-fly system that optimizes fish-catching potential. 570 color fly photos by Charlie Craven, 22 illus; 8.5x11 inches, 184 pgs.

Essential Trout Flies
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Great book on solid trout patterns.
How to tie the 31 most effective trout patterns and selected variations-more than 200 recipes in all-with step-by-step photos and fishing notes. 323 color photos; 8x11 inches, 96 pgs.  Based on the concept that trout flies come in pattern styles; once you learn to tie a single fly in a style, you're ready to tie any variation on it. Once you learn to tie the basic styles of trout flies, you can buy two fly boxes, fill them with flies you learn to tie from this book, and you're ready to fish anytime, anywhere.

Fies as Art
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Shockingly realistic flies in a beautiful and collectable book.
Provides details of how to tie a range of modern realistic flies; everything from a realistic Beetle for Fishing with right through to a full blown Art Fly. For each fly/insect there is an entomological overview including color photos;
A Step By Step series of high quality, graphic line drawings explaining every aspect of tying an ‘Art Fly’ version of that insect; Step by step photographic sequences explaining how to tie a simplified, realistic fishing version of the same fly. Color & B&W photos. Ilus; 8x11 inches, 200+ pgs.

The Fly Tyer Benchside Reference
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THE BOOK NO FLY TIER SHOULD BE WITHOUT!
Printed in full color on top-quality paper, this book features over 3,000 color photographs and over 400,000 words describing and showing, step-by-step, hundreds of fly-tying techniques! Leeson and Schollmeyer have collaborated to produce this masterful volume which will be the standard fly-tying reference book for the entire trout-fishing world. Through enormous effort on their part they bring to all who love flies and fly fishing a wonderful compendium of fly-tying knowledge. Every fly tier should have this book in their library!

Fly Tying for Beginners
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Good instruction and step-by-step photography makes learning how to tie easy.
Quick and simple professional techniques for Nymphs, Streamers, and Dry Flies.
Randall shares his 40 years of fly tying knowledge detailing many of the techniques employed by the worlds best tyers to produce perfect flies. Over 400 concise step-by-step photos show and tell you how to tie 24 of the most popular flies. 400 color photos; 5x8 inches, 64 pgs.

Creative Fly Tying-Mike Mercer
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One of the world's most creative tyers shares his fly patterns.

Mercer—whose highly original trout patterns have made him one of Umpqua Feather Merchants’ top fly designers—offers fresh and thought-provoking insights to the art of fly tying in Creative Fly Tying, his first book. These concepts are drawn from a lifetime spent on the water fishing and guiding, studying the prey and feeding habits of fish. Mercer shows how to think differently about trout flies; he explains which materials to use and why.

In this book, Mike reveals the evolutions and epiphanies that went into the creation of 12 of his favorite innovative patterns: Gold Bead Poxyback Green Drake Nymph, Copper Bead Micro Z-Wing Caddis, Profile Spinner, Rag Sculpin, Micro Mayfly Nymph, Alaska Lemming, PMD Trigger Nymph, Gold Bead Biot Epoxy Golden Stone Nymph, Sac Fry, Rag Hex Nymph, Zebra Midgeling, Glasstail Caddis Pupa. Very little is left to chance in these deadly flies—they are truly designed, head to tail. Tying sequences are elaborately and exquisitely photographed in super-sharp detail by Ted Fauceglia, America’s foremost macro-photographer of aquatic insects.

Most fly fishers think of tying flies in one of two ways: as a task—work necessary to keep their fly boxes full while saving a few dollars—or as an eternally fascinating extension of their fishing. To creative minds, designing trout flies can be a never-ending puzzle. It's always on their minds, teasing at their thoughts. Northern California's Mike Mercer is a card-carrying, dues-paying member of this group. Fortunate to have fished most of the planet's great fly-fishing destinations in his 40-plus years, Mike brings fresh and thought-provoking insights to the art of fly tying. These concepts are drawn from a lifetime spent on the water fishing and guiding, studying the prey and feeding habits of fish.