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A capturing and sometimes touching novel about a young boy whose life is formed by farming, outdoors activities and fishing

Joining author Ben Jailler on his fishing trips in the UK is bound to bring a smile on your face – and probably make you laugh out uncontrollably a few times

An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property

A book on UK style lake fishing for trout, written in a personal and entertaining - but still very informative - tone

"I spent most of 1949 in utero, gradually gaining awareness that something truly good awaited once I left the waters of my beginnings." A review of Frederick Prince's book.

A fascinating "true crime" story that tells about the theft of skins from protected bird from a natural history museum in the UK with the purpose of using them for fly tying

A short, enlightening and entertaining biography of the renowned Scottish salmon fly tyer Megan Boyd, a tyer who still inspires many salmon fly tyers and whose influence can still be found. Letters, anecdotes, photos and much more.

THE FUNK cloaks my heart,
Hazes my mind,
Chokes out fun,
Good friends and sunshine.

All for a fish
That will eat that f*king fly.

This book was brought to my attention by GFF contributor Bob Kenly. I had noticed the movie by the same title (and based on the novel) because the web had been overflowing with trailers for it when it premiered in the beginning of 2012. I was honestly more annoyed by the trailers than intrigued, but when Bob recommended the book, I fired off an order.

Derek Grzelewski's book The Trout Diaries takes the reader on a relaxed, yet exciting trip through the seasons of a year in a fly-fisherman's life. It's not one particular year it seems, but more like a series of representative periods in a row of years.
The seasons are upside down compared to mine - literally. Spring is in October and autumn is in March and April, summer is winter... at least in this book. This is of course dictated by the fact that we're in the southern hemisphere and on the other side of the globe compared to where I am right now.

This is one of those books that I wish I bumped into more often. I did actually bump into this one.

When I first took note of Mr. Winkler's book, it was on amazon.com, in a search for fly fishing books. I did a double-take as I didn't expect to see a book by an American TV sitcom icon on fly fishing. But in recollection, I did remember hearing something about the book coming out several months before its release.

Henry Winkler is best known via TV as Fonzie on the popular American 70's sitcom Happy Days.

A treatise on small fish and small waters; an eclectic collection of classic fly pattern variations; a survey of some of the better literature on the art and sport of fly fishing; a portrait of the angler as a young man... All of these descriptions apply to "Small Fry: The Lure of the Little" brought to you by ron P. swegman.

This is the first fly fishing novel I have ever read. In fact, it might be the first one I've ever heard of, so I don't have anything to compare it to. I'm also not a literary critic, so I don't even know if I'm qualified to review the book. I guess the best I can offer is the perspective of the target audience - a fly fisherman who enjoys reading books.

This book took me from the Introduction through its seemingly endless (in the good way, that is) fishing stories.

What an enchanting and entertaining book! I cannot recommend it enough. Written in the late 1800's and first published in 1882 this book is bound to be an all time classic - especially in Norway where many school kids have been forced to read it as a part of their English education.

At only 126 pages, this quick read will have your mind absorbed in the genesis and exodus of The Gentlemen's Society of Angling. At $18, however, the price seems a bit steep for an afternoon's read in paperback cover, figure you'll clip off $0.15 per page as you read (smile!). The book has a hint of Forrest Gump's honest niavity and a generous touch of characters similar to Norman McClean. You even come to realize that Quill Gordon just isn't a fly. Author Jay Hill casts a story line that lays out perfect, but you won't know it until the very end; a perfect cast so-to-speak.

A compilation of articles and essays from one of the finest trout fishermen in the world.

It has been said that in the world of fly fishing, there is precious little new to say. The conventional wisdom is that most of what is written and said is the regurgitation of long established ideas, sometimes bent with a subtle twist to make them appear new. Have we gotten to the point where new books are published that are simply a compilation of older works?

Lee Wulff was a quintessential fly-fisherman. From earliest childhood growing up in Alaska, Lee and the outdoors were two intertwined threads in the pattern of a long and accomplished life.

WARNING: I enjoy good humor. If you don't care for silly wit and prose, you won't agree with my review. Stop here and read something more serious on GFF. However, if you are like me and your built-in internal wader-snug system jiggles over classic comedy, then you'll want to read on.

Combine the practicality of Sheridan Anderson, The witty prose of John Gierach and the comedic illustration of Gene Trump and you have the only Alan Pratt book ever published. Making it more of a spectacular feat is that all the writing and illustrations are done solely by the author.