Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams [Hardcover]

Art Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997

This text explains both the essentials and the nuances of fly fishing, presentation, fly tying, and most importantly, landing trout. Includes over 100 colour illustrations and a colour insert detailing the dry fly patterns recommended in the book.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"I have gotten a number of helpful ideas from this book and personally from the author. I’m sure his book will be equally helpful to other anglers who wish to improve their fly fishing technique."

Jimmy Carter Former U.S. President

"It is said that, back in the 1940s and 50s, if an angler had one book on trout it would be Ray Bergman’s Trout. Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams is--shoot me if you want--a better, better written, more sophisticated book."

Gray’s Sporting Journal

"Art Lee's book should be a landmark, a touchstone, in every angler's education. Lee has thought through the art of fly-fishing with a clarity and an inelligence that is almost unrivaled. There isn't an angler alive who won't benefit from this book and some anglers may learn everything from it."

Verlyn Klinkenborg Sports Afield

"I wish I had Art Lee’s Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams when I began fishing. Lee takes us from the art of ‘reading’ a stream to the craft of netting a large trout."

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt New York Times

About the Author

Over the past 40 years, Art Lee has earned the reputation as the consummate writer and angler and has emerged as the most instantly recognizable face in American fly fishing.

Lee takes pride in being a fishing writer who really fishes. The work from his pen flows from his line as he fishes at home and abroad, where he has caught ("and lost") about every species of sport fish from bluegill to blue marlin.

Currently the editor-at-large for Fly Fisherman, The Atlantic Salmon Journal, and Wild Steelhead & Salmon, Lee has been published in a wide range of the best publications in the country, including Sports Illustrated and National Geographic. The most recognizable face in American fly fishing, Art and his trademark long-billed cap have been featured on ESPN's Fly Fishing the World and ABC's The American Sportsman.

Lee and his wife Kris live and work where dry fly fishing in America really began, in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088011777X
• ISBN-13: 978-0880117777
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #922,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can keep only one fly fishing book, this is it!, February 21, 1999

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John Wait ([e-mail]) (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams (Hardcover)

I bought the initial (Athenum Publishing.) edition in Feb. 1983. Read it so many times, and lent it so often (sorry, Art) that the spine is cracked. Bought this version in March 1998; he updated when appropriate (sadly Nylorfi is no longer available for tippets, and yes you can 'hang' yourself on it). This is a great read--the chapter on tying your own leaders is worth the price of the book. "Presenting the Fly" and "The Correct Approach" are essential reading for every fly fisher. Whitlock offers more tactics, and Joe Humphrey offers great insight, but Art is the most gifted writer on the subject of fly fishing. Buy it! Read it now. Read it each winter. Give a copy to anyone who wants to flyfish for trout with dry flies (Is there really any other way?). The only other fishing writer in his league is Frank Daignault.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for any level of expertise., August 23, 1998

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Kenneth J. Austin (Cherry Hill, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams (Hardcover)

Art Lee's book dispenses with the "myth" of trout fishing and presents in a clear and entertaining manner the true enjoyment of fly-fishing. " Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams" illustrates that presentation and reading the water is more important than looking like a hardware store on the stream and changing flies every two minutes. A well written and intelligent book on a subject often shrouded in a "match the hatch" mystery.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sick Puppy, February 24, 2006

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Herb Green "Bud's brother" (Wyoming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams (Hardcover)

Never has an author perennially engaged in such transparent self-aggrandizement to the extent of oddball Art Lee. When he tires of it, he tries to elevate his aberrant little partner Galen to hero status. [the worlds best two-weight angler].
Gag me with a whitefish.