📚 Fly Fishing

The cast artificial insect: the hatch, the rod, and the river’s connoisseurs.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fly fishing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The fly-fisher's entomology	Alfred Ronalds	1836	41
	A concise treatise on the art of angling	Thomas Best	1787	15
	Favorite flies and their histories	Mary Orvis Marbury	1892	15
	Lines on the Water	David Adams Richards	1999	10
	The fly fisher's guide	George Cole Bainbridge	1816	9
	The longest silence	Thomas McGuane	1999	9
	American Angler's Book	Thaddeus Norris	2015	9
	The practical angler	W. C. Stewart	1857	8
	Trout	Ray Bergman	1950	8
	Fly fishing in salt water	Lefty Kreh	1974	7
	Fly Fishing	Turhan Tirana	1996	7
	Fly tying and fly fishing for bass and panfish	Tom Nixon	1968	6
	Fly Fishing for Trout	Richard W. Talleur	1974	6
	The basic manual of fly-tying	Paul N. Fling	1977	6
	Fly fishing for dummies	Peter Kaminsky	1998	6
	Fishing Season	Philip Weigall	2009	6
	A day's angling on the Almond	Frank Fayle	1862	5
	A Fly Fisher's Life	Charles Ritz	1959	5
	Fly Fisherman's Streamside Handbook	Craig Woods	1981	5
	L.L. Bean fly-fishing handbook	Dave Whitlock	1984	5
	Fly-tyingmethods	Darrel Martin	1987	5
	The view from Rat Lake	John Gierach	1988	5
	Flyfishing	Stephen Windsor	1988	5
	Even brook trout get the blues	John Gierach	1992	5
	River Music	James R. Babb	2001	5
	The illustrated fly-fisher's text book	Edward Chitty	1845	4
	Red palmer	James Tayler	1888	4
	A history of fly fishing for trout	John Waller Hills	1921	4
	The Complete Fly-Fisher;	Charles Frederick Walker	1969	4
	A master's guide to building a bamboo fly rod	Everett Garrison	1977	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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