Bergman's "Trout" has arrived

[The Fisherman]

I can already see the coming addiction to learning everything I can about, then teaching myself the intracacies of wet fly tying and fishing.

Stay tuned for the article in a couple years. ;-)

[dudley]

Now yer gonna need a 9' cane 'buggy whip'
:rolleyes:

[Rich Strolis]

Steve,
If you haven't read that book yet, enjoy. Trout was the first book I ever read on trout fishing when I was a kid. My dad handed me his copy when I was in my early teens, and I read the book cover to cover several times. A great read with lots of personal anecdotes and loads of painted colorplates of flies. Bergman has a couple of other good books out there too, when you finish that one, he has a couple others that are very good too, enjoy!

[BRK TRT]

Steve, a great read. Bergman a master of the wet fly. Enjoy.

If you can find one another good book is Streamer Fly Tying, and Fishing, by Joe Bates.

[Adam Taylor]

bates book is not too hard to find at a reasonable price.

reading Trout Fishing by Joe Brooks right now with Challenge of the Trout by Lafontaine next on the list.

[dudley]

I have two fishing' books going right now
Both tags sale acquisitions

Fishing with McClane.... a copulation of A.J. McClane's articles from Field & Stream from the mid-40s through the early 60s
and
An Outdoor Journal by Jimmy Carter
I've read this book before but I think that I must have skipped over all but the fly fishing chapters.
Interesting stories from a guy who really loves the outdoors but has precious little time to enjoy it

Money quote...Jimmy's Mother Lillian

You may be President, but you still haven't learned how to catch fish.

[DA]

The first fly fishing books I read were Trout by Ray Bergman and Modern Fly Casting by John Alden Knight. My brother loaned me his copy of Trout and I found Modern Fly Casting at the Willimantic public library. That was 45 years ago. About 15 years ago I bought a copy of Trout from the used book rack at Colonial Sports in Bozrah. Unfortunately Colonial Sports closed last year. I found a copy of Modern Fly Casting on eBay last year. Both books are classics.

[The Fisherman]

I LOVE Brooks' Trout Fishing, if only because I devoured it cover to cover many times at the New Britain Public Library throughout the 1970s.

What other wet fly books does the group recommend?

[Adam Taylor]

relevant link...

http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/techniques/likakis_beyondtheswing.aspx

[southpaw526]

hehe hehe....he said copulation....Sorry, couldn't resist a little beavis and butthead flashback...

[L25]

I was given a first edition copy of Bergman's Trout from my uncle in 1964. My dog ate it in 1985. I still have what's left of it. Not the part that exited the dog. If he wasn't such a great bird dog I would have shot him...

[labtrout]

Bergman's "Trout" is a true classic as are the Joseph Bates books on streamers and how to fish for trout from the late 1940s. I just reread the latter one and was amazed at how much practical knowledge still applies.

For wet fly fishing, there are two I like, Sylvester Nemes' book on Soft Hackles and Dave Hughes on Wet Fly Fishing & Techniques. I may not have these titles exactly right (I am not at home near the bookshelf) but you should be able to find them in a search on those topics.

[The Fisherman]

To date, it looks like there are four Nemes titles on soft hackles.

[labtrout]

TF,

About the Nemes books:

The two I've read include his first, titled, The Soft-Hackled Fly, A Trout Fisherman's Guide, published in 1975. It's a slim little book of 127 pages. The second is Soft-Hackled Fly Imitations, published in 1991. Both are excellent. I like the first one better since it focuses more on techniques and theories. The second, as the title implies, is more a book of patterns.

Since reading his first book nearly 30 years ago. I've had great success swinging simple soft-hackled wets during caddis hatches. His partidge and olive, partridge and orange and hair's ear patterns are still great fish catchers.

The Hughes book is called, simply, Wet Flies. It's also quite instructive and he gives Nemes a lot of credit.