Books Maps and Guides We have several excellent local maps and guides written specifically for the fisherman by local identity Michael Shook. The Complete Fly Fishing Guide to the Roaring Fork Valley (Colorado) area is a pocket-sized fly fishing guidebook for the areas best waters; including the Roaring Fork River, the Fryingpan River, the Colorado River, the Crystal River and more... Price: $12.95 Paper--foldout map. Michael Shook. ISBN#1-889450-13-8. The fishing map and guide for the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork River is a pocket-size, foldout map for these two famous Colorado rivers. The map gives detailed public access points, hatch charts, recommended flies, boat launch and take-outs, information on the area, local shops, and much more. It is a crucial map for any fishermen hitting these two awesome rivers. Price: $9.95 New Books In addition we carry a respectable range of salt and freshwater fishing books. The range extends from the more technical aspects to the more lighthearted and fiction. A. K. Best and John Gierach stop in to the shop from time to time. We are great fans and consequently keep several autographed copies of their books on hand for that special gift. The following is a list of some of the books we currently have in stock: Knee deep in Montana Streams – John Holt Catch that trout!: New Zealand – Ron Giles The art of tying the dry fly – Skip Morris Cripples and Spinners – Kelly Galloup Fly tying made Clear and Simple – Skip Morris Splitting Cane – Ed Engle Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway Hatch guide for lakes – Jim Schollmeyer Western River Hatches – Skip Morris Hatch Matcher – Bill Fisher The Tarpon book – Frank Sargeant The Quotable Fisherman – Nick Lyons A River runs thought it – Norman McLean Confessions of a Fly Fishing Addict – Nick Lyons Spring Creeks – Lawson 101 Fly fishing tips – Kreh Lefty's little fishing tips – Kreh Advanced Fly Casting – Kreh The essential Knot Book for boats – Colin Jarman Longer Fly Casting – Kreh Solving Casting problmes – Kreh Permit on a Fly – Samson Yellowstone Fly Fishing guide – Mathews & Molinero Fly fishing – Joseph Petralia Death Taxes and Waders – John Gierach Another day in Paradise – John Gierach Trout bum – John Gierach Grave of Unknown fisherman – John Gierach Standing in a River Waving a stick – John Gierach View of Rat Lake – John Gierach Dances with Trout – John Gierach Where the trout are as long – John Gierach Even Brook Trout have the Blues – John Gierach Good Flies – John Gierach Fly fishing the high country – John Gierach Fishing Bamboo – John Gierach Dying and Bleaching – A.K. Best AK's Fly box – A.K. Best Bahamas Fly fishing Guide – S & K Vletas Western Hatches – Hafele & Hughes Matching Mayflies – Dave Hughes Fly fishing Colorado – Streit Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques – Kreh Driftboats – Alsup They shoot canoes don't they – P McManus How I got this way – P McManus The grasshopper trap – P McManus On Fishing – Robert Traver Western Streamside Guide – Dave Hughes The Longest Silence: A life in fishing – Thomas McGuane Imitating and Fishing Natural Fish Foods – Dave Whitlock Flyfisher's guide to Colorado – Marty Bartholomew Western Fly fishing Strategies – Craig Matthews The Old Man and the Boy – Robert Ruark The Old Man's boy gets Older – Robert Ruark Fly Fishing New Zealand's South Islands – Robert and Jana Bowler Bonefish Fly Patterns – Dick Brown Great New Zealand Trout Waters – Tony Orman Bonefishing – Kaufmann Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway Stoneflies for the angler – Leister & Boyle Tying Small Flies – Ed Engle Great Rivers, Great Hatches – Meck & Hoover Advanced Fly Tying – A.K. Best Wet Flies – Dave Hughes Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods – Dave Whitlock Everything Bird Book – Tershia d'Elgin Tarpon on the fly – Larmouth & Fordyce Soft Hackle Imitations – Sylvester Nemes Mastering Pike on the fly – Barry Reynolds Carp on the Fly – Reynolds, Befus, Berryman The River Why – D.J. Duncan The Deer on a bicycle – P McManus Never Sniff a Gift Fish – P McManus Fly fishing the Tailwaters – Ed Engle American Nymph Fly Tying Manual – R Kaufmann Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques – Kreh Guide to the Gunnison Drainage – Shook Fly Fishing Yellowstone in the Park – Jacklin & LaFontaine Angling guide to Colorado's Blue Mesa – Lightbody Reading the Water – Dave Hughes Nymphing Strategies – Larry Tullis Understanding Trout Behaviors – Goddard & Clarke Trout Hunter – Renee Harrop Caddis Flies – Gary LaFontaine Nymph Fishing – Dave Hughes Lake Fishing with a fly – Cordes & Kaufmann Selective Trout – Swisher & Richards Fishing Nymphs, Wet flies and streamers – Dick Sternberg Trout Hunting – Bob Wyatt Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout – Linsenman & Galloup The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway Nymphing – Borger Pursuing Wild Trout – Bob Madgic Curtis Creek Manifesto – Sheridan Anderson Trout Stream Insects – Dick Pobst The Caddis Fly Handbook – Pobst & Richards Trout Flies Proven Patterns – Gary LaFontaine   Second Hand Books We are also building up a collection of older secondhand fishing books which are generally out of print. It is a lot of fun browsing some of the older pictures to see how far fly fishing has progressed. What the River Knows – Wayne Fields Modern Fresh and Saltwater fly Fishing – Waterman The Philosophical Fisherman – Balisdell Caviar – Inga Safferon Fly fishing Through the Midlife Crisis – Raines The Compleat Angler – Isaak Walton Trout – Ray Bergman Saltwater Fly Casting Techniques – Kreh Production Fly Tying – A. K. Best Trout Fishing – Joe Brooks Fly Fishing The Lakes – Gerlach Trout – James Prosek The one that got away – Greenberg and Waugh Fly Fishing – Charles Jardine Trout – Dick Sternberg Game Fish of North America – Calabi Classic Fly Fishing Water of the World – Ed. Goran Cederberg Lure of the Open – Godfrey Dufresne Fly fishing Structure – Newman Fly Fishing the Rockies – Black Fly Fishing Strategies – Swisher/Richards A Different Angle – Ed. By Holly Morris The Fly Tier's Craft – Mike Shanks Fly Fishign for Trout – Dick Talleur Seasons fo the Angler – Ed. By David Seybold The Treasury of Angling – Larry Koller Gone Fishing! A selection of poems and quotations – Compiled by Anna Nicholas.   If any of the foregoing are of interest call us at the shop or email us and we will gladly post out any book or map you would like.
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