Trout Literature

Here's a list, that will also always be incomplete, for writing on trout and fly fishing for them. It's a list that includes non-fiction books, but shies away from straight instruction. Please give me more.


The Curtis Creek Manifesto
Sheridan Anderson
1978
Frank Amato Publications
936608064

Crazy For Rivers
Bill Barich
2006
The Lyons Press
1592288332

A Green Fisherman Never Caught a Brown Trout : Essays on Minnesota Ecology
William Boudreau
1991
Brule Pub
963117602

Trout Bum
John Gierach
1988
Simon & Schuster
671644130

View From Rat Lake
John Gierach
1989
Simon & Schuster
671675818

Fly Fishing Small Streams
John Gierach
1989
Stackpole Books
811722902

Sex, Death And Fly Fishing
John Gierach
1990
Simon & Schuster
067168437X

Where The Trout Are All As Long As Your Leg
John Gierach
1993
Simon & Schuster
671754556

Standing In A River Waving A Stick
John Gierach
2000
Simon & Schuster
684863294

Death, Taxes, And Leaky Waders
John Gierach
2000
Simon & Schuster
684868598

At The Grave Of The Unknown Fisherman
John Gierach
2004
Simon & Schuster
743229932

Still Life With Brook Trout
John Gierach
2006
Simon & Schuster
743229959

Fool's Paradise
John Gierach
2009
Simon & Schuster
743291743

My Moby Dick
William Humphrey
1979
Penguin
140052712

The Habit of Rivers: Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing
Ted Leeson
2006
The Lyons Press
1592289541

The Earth is Enough
Harry Middleton
1996
Mountain Press
871088746


Brook Trout and the Writing Life
Craig Nova
1999
The Lyons Press
1558219749


Fly-Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel
James Prosek
2003
HarperCollins
60193794

The One That Got Away: A Memoir
Howell Raines
2006
Scribner
743272781

The Speckled Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis)
Louis Rhead (ed)
1902
R.H. Russell


Black River Dreams
Maximilian Werner
2010
Barclay Creek Press

Trout Fiction

I couldn't find a decent resource for fictional books that deal, in part, with fly fishing so I created one. I won't vouch for every title as being a great read since I have not read them all, but I have read a lot and would love to discuss any. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Fiction only.


The Trout Whisperers
Peter Bodo
2006
Stackpole Books
0811701778


The River Why
David Duncan
1982
Bantam
1578050847


Madison River Country
Sid Eliason
1992
Charleston Books


The Nail Knot
John Galligan
2005
Bleak House
1932557113


The Blood Knot
John Galligan
2007
Bleak House
1932557296


The Clinch Knot
John Galligan
2008
Bleak House
1606480049


Under Cottonwoods
Stephen Grace
2004
Globe Pequot Press
1592281656


Blues
John Hersey
1988
Vintage
394757025


Window Dressing
John Hershey
2006
Outskirts Press
1598005146


The Snowfly
Joseph Heywood
2006
Lyons Press
1592285104


Dead Angler
Victoria Houston
2000
Berkeley
425173550


Dead Water
Victoria Houston
2004
Berkeley
425180034


Dead Jitterbug
Victoria Houston
2005
Berkeley
425202011


Dead Boogie
Victoria Houston
2006
Wheeler Publishing
1597222976


Dead Creek
Victoria Houston
2008
Bleak House
1932557911


Dead Frenzy
Victoria Houston
2008
Bleak House
193255792X


Dead Hot Mama
Victoria Houston
2008
Bleak House
1932557938


Pale Morning Done
Jeff Hull
2005
Lyons Press
1592286844


The Major, the Poacher and the Wonderful One-Trout River
Dayton O. Hyde
1985
McClelland & Stewart
0689311079


Firehole River Murder
Raymond Kieft
2004
Authorhouse
1418464562


Old Faithful Murder
Raymond Kieft
2008
Authorhouse
1434354318

Northwest of Normal
John Larison
2009
Barclay Creek Press
1936008017


Guiding Elliot
Robert Lee
1997
Lyons Press
1558216030


Fly Fishing Corpse
David Leitz
1994
Centennial Publications
1882418131


Casting in Dead Water
David Leitz
1996
St Martins Mass Market Paper
312957793


Dying to Fly Fish
David Leitz
1996
St Martins Mass Market Paper
312959834


Fly Fishing Can Be Fatal
David Leitz
1997
St. Martin's Press
312961626


Hooked on Death
David Leitz
2000
Xlibris Corporation
073881797X


A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean
1989
University of Chicago Press
0226500608


Time is a River
Mary Monroe
2009
Simon and Schuster
1416546642


The Congressman's Daughter
Craig Nova
1986
Bantam
385294557


The Good Son
Craig Nova
2006
Crown Publishing Group
307345777


Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday
2008
Harvest Books
0156034565

Deer Hunting, WOJB and My Morning Jacket

Every Saturday during the rifle season there's a radio show that plays old country music that meshes extremely well with the surroundings of our deer camp in the woods. There's a few "young bucks," myself included, that stay up a little later than the veterans to enjoy the music and beverages and fire. Listening to My Morning Jacket reminds me of the end of those nights. They have a great relaxing sound; a winding down sound.