From Simon & Schuster, Fly Fisher's Reader is an unabashedly biased sampling angling's finest literature by Leonard M. Wright.In Fly Fisher's Reader, Wright shares more than two dozen literary gems from amazing writers like Sparse Grey Hackle, Red Smith, Sir Edward Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Barich, Tom McGuane, and others.
This is the book that revolutionized the way fly fishing is done. Originally written in 1972, Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect (now Flutter, Skitter and Skim: Using the Living Insect as a Guide to Successful Fly Fishing) changed the method of fly fishing from one of casting the fly upstream and allowing it to "dead drift" with the current to including tactics that recreate the movement of an abundant aquatic insect-the caddis. Wright explains the behavior of the caddis and the best tactics to take advantage of them.