Wet Flies:  Tying and fishing soft-hackles, flymphs, winged wets, and all- fur wets. 2nd Edition.  342-page souftbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Wet Flies, in its first edition, became a cult classic among wet fly experts, and among those who desire to learn how to tie and fish wet flies. Many times they’re the most effective flies to take trout, when drys, nymphs, and streamers fail to work. Now with 100 new pages and in full color. 

    Chapters on wet flies and the insects they represent to trout, and therefore the reasons they’re so effective.  Complete material lists and step-by-step color instructions for tying soft-hackled wet flies, flymphs, traditional winged wets, and all-fur wets.  The one book you must have if you have any interest in learning to tie and fish wet flies, and if you’d like to advance your knowledge about them, your abilities to tie them, and the number of trout you catch on them.  

 

    Based on long study of the natural insects, and the ways in which wet flies imitate them.  Also based on Dave’s friendships with Pete Hidy, author with James Leisenring of The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing the Flymph, with Sylvester Nemes, author of The Soft-Hackled Fly, with Polly Rosborough, author of Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs, and with Davy Wotton, instructor in the video Wet Fly Ways. 

 

 

 

Pocketguide to Western Hatches.  314-page hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Whenever trout feed selectively on an insect or crustacean, you need to be able to match it, or at least approximate it, with your fly pattern and presentation if you have much hope to fool those fish. This book covers each of the important stages of all western food forms on which trout might focus, in both streams and stillwaters. 

 

    For each hatch it covers:  common and scientific names; recognition characteristics; habitat types; seasonal emergence periods and times of day; behavior; effective imitations; presentation tactics; and known hatch locations. It’s the one book you want in a vest pocket, your boat bag, or back at the rig when you’re on any western trout water with a fly rod in your hand.

 

 

 

Trout From Small Streams. 2nd edition. 248-page Softbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Covers all aspects of fly fishing for trout on small streams. Dave describes how fishing is different on mountain, foothill, and lowland streams, plus freestone and meadow streams, and how to develop the skills necessary to master each. Covers gearing down, not up, for small stream fishing, and a minimal fly box that lets you fish small streams with maximum freedom, and the full range of options for drys, nymphs, wet flies, and streamers.  

 

    Dave’s advice on casting techniques for small waters is especially useful, because trees and brush often require creative casts to get the fly onto tiny water where trout can get at it. Based on decades of fly fishing small streams from the hills of coastal Oregon where he grew up, to the Blue Mountains in North Carolina, as well as small streams in Chile, New Zealand and Japan—wherever he has fished, Dave has gravitated to small streams. 

 

 

An Angler’s Astoria.  2nd edition.  225-page Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The underground classic book of essays first published in softbound, by Frank Amato Publications, in 1982. A record of a time and a place, where the author grew up, eight miles up the Columbia River from its meeting with the Pacific Ocean. Includes stories whimsical and sad, surprising and even sometimes questionable…who knew, or to this day would believe, that deer can be seen to eat trout while trotting up the centers of small streams! 

 

    Stories about trout, salmon, and steelhead fishing, along with bass at dawn and fly fishing for ling cod from the ocean jetties. With a new long epilogue titled Life Cycles, in which by reading the rings of a still-freshly cut stump, Dave is able to read back through the history of his and his family’s fishing life along the most beautiful of all the streams:  poetic little Grassy Lake Creek. Finally available in hardbound. 

 

 

 

Reading Trout Water. 2nd edition.  312-page Softbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Teaches everything you need to know about trout stream structure, trout foods, and trout lies so that you can better utilize your time on the water by focusing on the areas most likely to hold trout.  Covers the needs of trout, and the ways in which trout water meets those needs, thereby dictating where you’ll find them in abundance.  

 

    Covers the different kinds of trout lies:  holding lies, feeding lies, prime lies, and perhaps most important, the types of water that are usually empty of trout, where you don’t want to waste your time fishing.  Breaks down and instructs how to read and fish riffles, runs, pools, pocket water, and bank lies in freestone streams, meadow streams, spring creeks, tailwaters, plus creeks, streams, small and large rivers.  Ten percent of the fishermen are said to catch 90% of the trout.  It’s unlikely the numbers are that dramatic.  But it’s very likely that you’ll catch a lot more trout if you learn to read the types of water in which they prefer to hold.  This book will help elevate you into that percentage of more successful anglers.

 

 

 

Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters.  372-page 8-1/2” x 11” Hardbound. Kindle Edition available.  Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Has been called the most thorough and enjoyable book about selecting, tying, and fishing nymphs that has ever been written.  The subject is broken logically into four parts.  

 

    Part 1 is an introduction to the way nymph fishing, and therefore nymph tying, shapes itself, with chapters on streamside and lakeside observation, nymph pattern slection based on what you’ve observed, and tools and materials for both basic and advanced methods used in tying nymphs that take trout.  

 

    Part 2 deals with the selection and detailed tying of effective searching nymphs for fishing in moving water:  creeks, streams, and rivers, plus spring creeks and tailwaters.  

 

    Part 3 examines in thorough detail imitative nymphs for moving waters, tightly relating naturals to their imitations and the methods used to tie and fish them.  Part 4 covers selecting, tying, and fishing a set of stillwater nymphs.  You’ll get a sound understanding of the relationship between naturals and their imitations, and the relationship between those imitations and the trout.  You’ll learn what nymphs you should spend your time tying:  those that best suit your own fishing situations.  You’ll learn how to tie them, and most important, when, where, and how to fish them in order to catch more trout.  

 

    Dave takes a subject that has been considered complex and confusing, and makes it easily understood and even enjoyable.  He distills out of the muddle just the information that you really need to improve your nymph tying, and your nymph fishing as well. You’ll have fun reading and working with this book, and it will increase the amount of fun you get from your fishing.  

 

 

 

Trout Rigs & Methods.  320-page Softbound. Kindle Edition available.  Stackpole Books. Hundreds of technique illustrations. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Clear and simple instructions and explanations describe 18 different basic ways to rig your gear for trout, and 81 essential methods with which to fish those rigs.   In other words:  all the core and important ways you might think about to fly fish for trout in any situation. Covers creeks, streams, rivers, spring creeks and tailwaters, as well as lakes and ponds.  

 

    For moving water, the book details rigs and methods for dry flies and emergers, nymphs, wet flies, streamers, and dry-and-dropper rigs.  For stillwaters, it covers rigs and methods and line systems for dry flies and all manner of sunk flies.  Covers gearing up for all types of trout fishing, on all types of waters, with all types of flies.  No rig or method is left uncovered.  Includes sections on casting, selecting flies, reading water and finding trout, and most of all, rigging and techniques to catch those trout.

 

 

 

Handbook of Hatches. 2nd edition. 276-page Softbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    An introduction to the aquatic insects that trout eat, and that cause trout to become selective to imitations, at the simplest and most essential level:  just the facts you need to know to collect an insect, observe its size, form, and color, select an effective imitation, and thereby catch trout.  

 

    Handbook of Hatches omits the Latin and demystifies the insects and selection of fly patterns that match them.  If fly fishing for trout that are feeding on aquatic insects has been a mystery to you, or if you’re just getting into fly fishing for trout, this is the book you need to figure out what those trout are doing, and to catch them when they’re selective, but you don’t have time to study complicated entomology texts and fly tying tomes. 

 

 

 

Essential Trout Flies.  92-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    A unique approach to tying trout flies that will allow you to carry the minimum necessary, while solving the maximum number of trout fishing situations. How to tie the 31 most effective fly pattern styles for trout, and within each style, lists and shows in color plates the most important variations for your trout fishing.  More than 200 fly pattern recipes in all, with step-by-step color photos, clearly written tying steps, and notes on how and where to fish each pattern style.  

 

    Helps you reduce the infinitely complex subject of tying trout flies to its essence, and helps you choose and tie an elemental core set of flies that you can carry in a couple of fly boxes, and that will allow you to catch trout anywhere you might encounter them, on all kinds of waters, all across the continent and all around the world.  Covers essential searching patterns and imitations. Includes dry flies, nymphs, emergers, wet flies, and streamers:  Every fly you’ll need to go out and catch trout.

 

 

Trout Flies:  The Tier’s Reference.  Massive 470-page 8-1/2” x 11”  Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    A new and quite different approach to tying.  Trout Flies is divided into three parts.  Part 1 offers an entire philosophy of fly tying, always related to fly fishing, including an extraordinarily lucid “Unified Theory of Trout Flies.”  Part 2 covers the full range of searching flies for trout:  dries, nymphs, wets, and streamers. Part 3 covers an infinite array of imitative fly pattern styles and variations that catch trout.  Crisp color photos and clearly-written captions show and tell you how to tie each fly listed in the book.  Trout Flies has been called the most useful pattern and tying book for the trout fisherman.  It is the largest gathering of patterns for trout food forms—including insects, crustaceans, leeches and other things that trout eat—ever put together.  

 

    The flies listed and shown in this book are designed to catch trout, not to put on display.  The book sets your thinking about fly tying and trout fishing off in many new directions.  You’re after beauty in the eyes of the trout, not in the eye of the fly collector.  Form follows function; the most beautiful fly is one that catches trout.  Your goal is a fly that looks alive in or on the water, not while clamped in the tying vise.  Your fly tying should always be rooted in what you learn when you’re out fly fishing.  This beautiful book will ensure that you make the connection between the fly and the fish in all of your fly tying.  

 

    If you are among the many who own Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer’s important Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference, then you’ll benefit from this book as a companion to it. Trout Flies enables you to apply their tying methods to specific patterns that in turn let you go out and catch more trout.

 

 

 

Fly Fishing Basics.  216-page Softbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. 255 line drawings. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Still simply the best basic book, an introduction to all types of fly fishing:  trout in both moving and still waters; steelhead and salmon; bass and panfish; saltwater.  Covers everything from basic tackle and fly tying techniques to hooking and playing fish in streams, stillwaters, and saltwater.  An easy-to-read reference, clearly and heavily illustrated.  Covers rod and reel selection, the well-outfitted angler, basic and advanced casting techniques, and everything between gearing up and landing a fish that you need to know to get started in fly fishing.  

 

 

 

Big Indian Creek.  92-page Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Diary of a trip backpacking and fishing on a small stream on the shoulders of Steens Mountain in Oregon, during an October wind and rain storm.  Includes thought-provoking observations on the fishing life and life in general.  Takes you out there on the trip.  One of those small cult classics that you must read if you haven’t already read it.  Considered by those who love it to be one of the literary masterworks on the subject of fly fishing. The original hardbound is out of print, though available on the collectors market. 

 

 

 

Strategies for Stillwater.  246-page Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. Black & White photos and illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Lake and pond fishing for trout is different enough from rivers and streams that it deserves its own book on the subject, just as stillwater food forms are different enough that you need a different set of flies to match them. This book is somewhat out of date in terms of the photos, and some of the fly patterns. But the trout haven’t changed, and neither has what they do, where they can be found, and the things they eat. 

 

    Covers reading stillwaters; gear; float tubes and boats; strategies for drys, nymphs, wet flies, and streamers; and a long and substantial set of chapters on stillwater food forms and their imitations. Reviewers have asked for a new, updated, all color edition. It’s a possibility. Meantime, the hardbound is out of print, but available on the collector’s market. if you can track down a copy, it will be one of the most useful additions to your fly fishing library. 

 

 

Tackle & Technique for Taking Trout:  192-page Softbound. Stackpole Books. Black & White photos and illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Expert advice on two vital aspects of fly fishing for trout.  First, explains how to choose a rod, reel, line, and leader that are all in balance with each other and perfectly suited to the situation in which you’ll be fishing.  Second, demonstrates casting techniques for presenting flies in an enticingly lifelike manner.  Covers in detail the movements of an effective basic fly cast, on which all other casts are based.  Then details the roll cast, slack-line casts, reach cast, positive and negative curve casts, steeple cast, single and double hauls, mending and feeding line, plus the elemental knowledge that position and wading are essential parts of any effective cast.  Concludes with notes on creative casting to solve unique situations in which you find yourself. 

 

    Written as part of the Handbook of Hatches/Reading Trout Water/Tactics for Trout series, but didn’t sell well enough to be kept in print. Has been called one of the best books on tackle and casting for trout fishing by those in the know. Out of print; available on used market.

 

 

 

Tactics for Trout.  224-page Softbound. Stackpole Books. Black & White photos and illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The key to successful trout fishing lies in knowing the full range of methods that work with dry flies, nymphs, wet flies, and streamers, and being able to call on the one tactic that is precisely right for the fishing situation in which you find yourself.  This book teaches you to actively read the water and the situation, and choose the proper fly pattern, casting position, and presentation method to catch trout. It’s emphasis is the tactics put into play against the trout.

    This book was originally planned as part of Tackle & Technique–together to be published as Tactics for Trout. They got a bit big for their britches, and were separated out as two books, a mistake in hindsight. If you can’t find a new copy, then go to the used market and buy this one together with the previous one. Read them as one, starting with Tackle & Technique. Together they’ll make an excellent primer, and the perfect companion, as they were intended, to the best-selling Handbook of Hatches and Reading Trout Water.

 

 

 

Taking Trout.  212-page Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The sheer variety of fly fishing environments and experiences covered in this book make it a worthy addition to your fishing library.  Fishing canyon streams with midges; fishing stairstep streams; how to prevent drag; fishing bank water and how to cast upstream near the bank; fishing slicks and pocket water and much, much more.  This book contains five years of Dave’s “Fly Fishing Success” columns from Fly Rod & Reel, plus many articles written for Field & Stream, Fly Fisherman, and other important magazines. The hardbound is out of print. A search turned up copies available on the collectors market. 

 

 

 

 

 

Tactics for Trout with Rick Hafele and Skip Morris. 234-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Kindle edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 After three years struggling to make an e-magazine, HookedNow, break even, and perhaps pay back a bit, Rick, Dave, and Skip gave it up, sent all the material to Stackpole Books. They decided to break it into two logical subjects, and publish it as a two-volume set:  Tactics for Trout and Seasons for Trout. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seasons for Trout with Rick Hafele and Skip Morris. 230-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Kindle edition available. Stackpole Books. All color photos. Bestseller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    After three years struggling to make an e-magazine, HookedNow, break even, and perhaps pay back a bit, Rick, Dave, and Skip gave it up, sent all the material to Stackpole Books. They decided to break it into two logical subjects, and publish it as a two-volume set:  Tactics for Trout and Seasons for Trout. 

 

    The original idea for the e-zine was to take a fishing trip, come home, each cover the trip from a separate point of view. The results are informative, whimsical, full of good ideas for your own fishing, and fun to read. The two books are photographically gorgeous, and crammed with a variety of helpful things to apply in your own trout fishing. Even if you were one of the rare subscribers to the e-zine, you’ll find the books both valuable and enjoyable. If you weren’t a subscriber, it will be all new material, by three well-known fly fishing authors and good friends, gathered in this new way. 

 

 

 

Western Mayfly Hatches with Rick Hafele. 268-page 8-1/2” x 11”  Hardbound and Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos plus Black & White illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    All you need to know about all western mayfly hatches, in all stages:  nymph, emerger, dun, and spinner.  Fly patterns and presentation techniques.  Covers every important insect to family, genus, and where relevant, species level.  Distribution maps, emergence tables, and importance charts for every insect.  The most detailed and thorough treatment of any order of insects ever written.  It’s been called the best angler’s entomology book written in this country.  Each stage of each insect is shown in color photos.  Richard Bunse line drawings depict each nymph and dun.  Jim Schollmeyer photos clearly show the fly pattern choices, usually suggestive, impressionistic and imitative for each insect, to give you the full range of options.  

 

    For each insect, coverage includes identification characteristics, habitat types, and behavioral habits, plus the best imitations, the water types in which to fish them, and the best ways to rig and present them.  No western mayfly is left uncovered; you will find no finer source of information on all western mayfly hatches:  how to identify them, what flies to fish for them, where and how to fish those flies to solve far more fly fishing situations.  This is the culmination of a lifetime of collaboration between Dave and professional aquatic entomologist Rick Hafele. It’s a reference useful to anglers and entomologists alike. 

 

 

 

Western Hatches  with Rick Hafele. 224-page 8-1/2” x 11” softbound.  Frank Amato Publications. Black & white with color plates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The classic, and still by far the most useful coverage of its subject:  the entire range of aquatic insects important to western anglers.  Co-authored with professional aquatic entomologist and angling author Rick Hafele. Covers recognition of the insect, plus its habits and habitat, then the best pattern for imitation, plus how and where to fish that pattern.  Lists the key features of each stage for all western aquatic insects important to anglers.  This is the book that started it all, and it’s still the best book with which to start your own recognition and imitation of western hatches.  

 

    Covers mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, craneflies, dragonflies, damselflies, midges, waterboatmen, backswimmers, and beetles.  Includes photos of the naturals and drawings of key identifying features. Only 1,000 hardbounds were printed; they immediately became collector’s items, and are almost impossible to find now.  

 

 

 

American Fly Tying Manual.  50-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    One of the first fly tying and pattern books to be published in full color. Because of its broad coverage of the most important fly patterns for all types of fly fishing, it was instantly the most useful beginning book around, and remains so to this day. It is used extensively in fly tying classes. More people have learned how to tie flies from this book than from any other fly tying and pattern book.  Describes the materials, tools, and basic techniques of fly tying.  Lists 290 fly patterns that are the most useful in fly fishing for all species:  dry flies, nymphs, wet flies, and streamers for trout, plus flies for bass, panfish, Atlantic and Pacific salmon, steelhead, and saltwater.  The one book that will get you started fly tying, and give you a comprehensive list of flies with which you can catch the widest variety of species.  

 

 

 

Deschutes: River of renewal.  96-page 11” x 8-1/2” Hardbound and Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos by Jim Schollmeyer and others. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This beautiful coffee table book is filled with information about the famous river’s geology, history, and especially its fishing for both trout and steelhead.  Explains how to fish the river with all types of flies.  Special notes on fly patterns and techniques.  100 beautiful color photos by Jim Schollmeyer, Brian O’Keefe, and many others, plus color fly plates and map. Not a mile-by-mile river guide, rather an appreciation of the beauty of this famous river, in both photos and words. Out of print, but available on the collectors market. 

 

 

 

Yellowstone River and its Angling.  96-page 8-1/2” x 11” Hardbound and Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This beautiful coffee table book takes you on a journey to one of the world’s finest fly fishing rivers, from high in the headwaters above Yellowstone Park, downstream through the Park and Paradise Valley and the Lower River all the way to the end of trout fishing near Billings, Montana.  Includes chapters on the Bighorn River and other tributaries.  Covers a horse pack trip to the point on the continental divide where Two Ocean Creek splits, heads in one direction to the Pacific Ocean, in the other to the Atlantic. Captures the feeling of the river as well as its geography and history.  More than 100 color photos, plus plates of flies tied by resident experts on the river. Out of print, but available on the collectors market.

 

 

 

Dry Fly Fishing.  56-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos by Jim Schollmeyer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This all-color guide, companion to Nymph Fishing, will help make you a very competent dry fly angler.  Chapters on tackle, fly selection, casting techniques, fishing dry flies on moving water, lakes and ponds, and matching hatches over selective, rising trout. The introductory material is an excellent source for basic trout fishing, from outfitting yourself, to tackle selection, through casting and presentation techniques, and on to dry fly pattern selection.  

 

    In combination with Nymph Fishing this book becomes a very good primer to fly fishing for trout. Both of the books illustrate all useful techniques in Jim Schollmeyer color photo sequences. Out of print, but available on the collectors market. 

 

 

 

Nymph Fishing.  64-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos by Jim Schollmeyer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Emphasizes all that you need to know to fish nymphs effectively for trout.  Companion to Dry Fly Fishing. The techniques and methods covered will guarantee that your nymph imitation will be fishing right.  Includes dressings for the best nymphs for trout.  Crisp, brief text by Dave, and dramatic color photos by famous fishing photographer and author Jim Schollmeyer.  All the rigging techniques and fishing methods that will put you into business against trout.  

 

    The most effective nymphing methods are shown in photo sequences, to help you sort out how to execute them on streams and stillwaters. Includes plates of the most useful nymph patterns. The best introduction to nymph fishing available in its time, and to this day. Out of print, but available on the collectors market.

 

 

 

Western Streamside Guide. 160-page 4” x 8” Hardbound and Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  A pocket-sized guide to the important major hatches in the western states and provinces.  Based in size and format on Art Flick’s famous eastern Streamside Guide. Originally published in black and white with color plates, it has been revised and updated in all color.   Includes photos of the insects, the best imitations, and notes on how and where to fish the flies to match the hatch.  Compact and easy to read and to carry in the field.  All you need to know when you get into a hatch, and want to solve it on the stream or lake. A nice read for collectors of Dave’s books, and a useful book in its time, it has been superseded in utility by Pocketguide to Western Hatches. Still tells you how to recognize the hatches you’re most likely to run into in a season on western waters, and what to do about them when you do. 

 

 

 

Matching Mayflies.  84-page 8-1/2” x 11” Spiral Hardbound and Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. All color photos and illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This beautiful book was conceived as Matching Mayflies Simplified, to be published in small size and at a small price. It accidentally got expanded into a large format with a modest price tag. In its perceived form, it would have been an excellent streamside companion to the mayfly hatches, anywhere you might find them. In its present form it’s a beautiful volume, a good read, and very useful at the tying bench. Its concept that the mayflies are all the same shape, that you can match any insect in the order with size and color variations of a few pattern styles, isn’t out of date. 

 

 

 

Western Fly Fishing Guide.  86-page 8-1/2” x 11” Softbound. Frank Amato Publications. Black & white. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This thin but still valuable little volume was written as a subscription incentive for Flyfishing the West, the magazine that several permutations later became the Flyfishing & Tying Journal that Dave edited for eight years. It was also sold as a separate book. Think of it as an early poor man’s version of 50 Places to Fly Fish Before You Die. It lists, with brief notes, the best ten waters in each western state and province. Though dated, it’s still an excellent condensation of information about trips you might want to make. If you buy it, you’ll have fun musing over it, and might get more than one idea for a trip out of it, but check it’s destination information before you depart…things have changed! Out of print; available used. Not to be mistaken for Western Streamside Guide. 

 

 

 

 

Fishing the Four Seasons.  144-page Softbound. Lyons Press. Color plates. Black & White illustrations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    To catch fish consistently throughout the year, you must know where the trout are found, how to fish for them, and which flies to use during the various seasons:  spring, summer, winter, and fall.  Each is different, and this small but elegant book covers the things you’ll need to do differently in each season to become successful the year around.  

 

    An obscure little title by Dave that you’ll enjoy reading, and be able to put to use in your own fishing. Originally published as a hardbound in the Lefty’s Little Library series by Odysseus Editions, which can be found on the collectors market. The Lyons Press softbound is beautiful, and is available new. 

 

 

 

 

 

City Fishing.  2002 Hardbound. Kindle Edition available. Stackpole Books. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This is an anthology about fishing in or near the world’s major cities. Dave has a story, “Hermaphrodites to Dries”, about dry fly fishing for carp in the Tamagawa–Tama River–threading between Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan. Many other authors have fine stories in the collection. The hardbound is out of print, but available in the used market. 

 

 

 

Love Story of the Trout.  2010 Softbound. Kindle edition available. Fly Rod & Reel Books. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    This beautiful anthology of stories was selected from those accepted for publication in Fly Rod & Reel magazine’s annual fiction issue. If you’ve been a reader of the magazine for many years, you’ve read some of them, and will both want to re-read them, and discover the surprises in store in the ones you’ve missed. If you’re not a subscriber, the stories will all be new to you, and you’ll end up wanting to subscribe to the magazine. Dave has two stories in the book, the title story, “Love Story of the Trout,” and “What It Was.”