Fishing Books.

This catalog page has books on fishing, outdoor skills, and driftboating.
These books were selected by our research staff to provide good reference material and useful books for those of us that truly enjoy being outside in the forests, fields, marshes, and swamps, in the mountains, and on the water.
Whether we are fishing for Bass, Pike, Catfish, Panfish, Rainbow Trout, or Steelhead, or fly fishing in your favorite mountain stream it really helps to have an expert by our side.
That is where an excellent well written book is essentical for most of us.
These book selections include hunting for fresh and saltwater fishing, making lures, baits, rigs and tackle, fly making, handling drift boats, and other essential outdoor skills.
Driftboats have a long and interesting history in their native Oregon. Commonplace on Pacific Northwest waters, the driftboats are now enjoying a national popularity and are to be found in every state. Several books are included for the acquisition and safe operation of driftboats for boating enthusiasts, outdoorsmen, and anglers.
The link for our catalog page for camping and woodcraft skills and wilderness survival books is at the lower end of this page.
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Fresh & Salt Water Fishing Books

• Basic Freshwater Fishing: Step-By-Step Guide to Tackle and Fish Know-How That Catch Fish in Your Area ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Cliff Hauptman / Paperback 224 pages / Published March 1988
An excellent book for both beginning and experienced anglers. It really covers all the essentials and will teach you how to fish. The organization of the chapters is logical and easy to follow. Covers basic tackle equipment for baitcasting, spinning, spincasting, and flycasting. Shows how to locate panfish, gamefish, trout, and other fishes, and where to fish for them. Covers using live and artificial baits. Plus trolling, handling boats, trying knots, taking care of equipment, and other fine points of fishing.
If you want to learn how to fish, you will need to read this book.
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• Fishing for Dummies ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Peter Kaminsky / Paperback 348 pages / Published April 1997
The book, true to the Dummies Series, provides good basic fishing information. This book identifies the common freshwater and the saltwater varieties of fish and how to catch them. Proper baits, lures, and techniques for each type of fish is explained. Includes photos and line illustrations.
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• The Bass Fisherman's Bible ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Erwin A. Bauer Mark Hicks (Contributor)
Paperback 213 pages, 3rd Edition / Published October 1989
This book covers Bass fishing basics quite nicely. And this book is written for the beginner as well as the more experienced bass fishermen.
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• Advanced Bass Fishing (The Hunting and Fishing Library) ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Dick Sternberg / Hardcover 128 pages / Published January 1995
Like nearly all of the books from this great series, this book is full of techniques, tips, and tricks that will add some fish into your freezer. This book is a series of writings from expert anglers. Each topic has a different professional angler for each technique. The professional then demonstrates that technique on a lake of their choice. The book then discusses information about the specifics, best weather for fishing it, season, and the best time of day to use the technique. Includes the correct rod length, action and pound test of line, when they are factors. Another great thing is that since is wasn't created by a fishing company, there is not any bias and product pushing.
This book is full of excellent tips.
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• The Complete Guide to Fishing Skills ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Tony Whieldon / Hardcover 320 pages / Published May 1997
This guide shows how to improve fishing techniques to catch the most popular freshwater and saltwater fish. Discusses helpful and easy to understand angling methods and techniques for both saltwater and freshwater fishing. Discusses and explains the best lures, and the most effective fishing methods and procedures to use for each species of fish. Fully illustrated.
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• Color Guide to Steelhead Drift Fishing ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Bill Herzog / Paperback / Published May 1994
An excellent informative book on getting started with your drift boat. Clearly written text with diagrams. Includes reading the water and tips for safe manuevering.
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• The Complete Book of Tackle Making ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours


-C. Boyd Fleiffer / Paperback 544 pages / Published March 1999
This Bible for the do-it-yourselfers that love to make their own tackle. 25 Chapters covering tools, spinning, bucktails, jigs, lures and plugs, rod building. knots, tackle care and much more.


• Bug Making: A Thorough Guide to Making & Tying Floating Bugs For All Gamefish; Bluegills to Bullfish
~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours

-C. Boyd Pfeiffer / Paperback 224 pages / Published July 1995
This exceptionally practical and thorough book fills a distinct gap in fly-tying literature and is destined to become a classic in this previously untouched and important subject. Covers the making and tying of all types of floating bugs with nearly two hundred helpful black-and-white photographs. Covering everything from panfish poppers to smallmouth sliders, trout terrestrials to huge billfish popping bugs, saltwater skippers to pike poppers. The emphasis is on easy, effective, and durable bug construction, using all of the important materials easily available today.
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• Luremaking: The Art and Science of Spinnerbaits, Buzzbaits, Jigs, and Other Leadheads
  ~Usually Ships Within 10 to 14 Days


-A. D. Livingston / Paperback 161 pages / Published October 1993
This book is a complete comprehensive course in the art and science of making some of the popular fishing lures. Shows how to make lures for enticing bass and all other types of fresh and saltwater fish for much less cost than buying similiar lures. Includes detailed how-to instructions complete with illustrations for hand crafting lure, with expert information, techniques, and tips. Whether you're looking for basic building instructions or just want to know why these lures work the way they do, this is the book you want.
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• The Complete Book of Fly Tying ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eric Leiser / Hardcover 241 pages / Published November 1977
This book covers all styles and types of flies and how to produce them. This includes dry flies for trout, hair bugs for bass, and streamers. Expert instruction and clear illustrations make this book an excellent book for beginners as well as experienced fly tiers.
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• The Art of Fly Tying ~Usually Ships Within 2 to 4 Weeks
-John Van Vliet / CD ROM Edition / Published June 1999
This is the CD-ROM version of the very popular hardcover book by the same name. Published by Cowles Creative Publishing, the publishers of the Hunting and Fishing Series of excellent hardcover books. The clearly written text and step-by-step illustrations and detailed color photographs will enable the reader to produce well crafted, high quality popular and classic fishing flies. Includes coverage on just about everything that you will need to know to tie great flys, and the tools your will need to tie them. Also includes hundreds of fly pattern recipes with a searchable fly pattern index making it a good reference source.
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Fly Tying and Fishing for Panfish and Bass ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Tom Keith / Paperback 192 pages / Published July 1989
This fine book covers basically everything that you need to know to tie your own flies and improve your fishing success. Covers how to tie and fish the most productive flypatterns for bass and panfish. Includes helpful information about fly rods, reels, lines and leaders. Also cover how to read the water for the most favorable fishing areas.
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• Panfish (The Hunting & Fishing Library) ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Dick Sternberg, Bill Ignizio / Hardcover 160 pages / Published April 1996
Read this book to learn the steps needed to graduate from catching small panfish with earthworms and a cane pole to the techniques needed to catch the big panfish. With with clear concise text and over 425 color photographs and illustrations, this book will help you to learn where to find and how-to catch good-sized panfish. Covers the techniques and tips that expert anglers use to find and catch big sunfish and crappies in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Learn how to catch white bass and real large yellow perch and rock bass.
Also covers how to choose the right equipment.
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• Fishing Rivers and Streams (Hunting and Fishing Library) ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Dick Sternberg / Hardcover 160 pages / Published April 1990
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• Steelhead Savvy ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Jim Bedford / Paperback 88 pages / Published February 1995
This book is an excellent book for the beginning steelheader and the experienced fisherman. The author includes steelhead catching techniques and his expert tips. Covers steelheading tips and special techniques and where the migrating steelhead go and habits of the fish, drift boat fishing and tips on selecting plugs, baits and hardware.
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• Driftboats: A Complete Guide ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Dan Alsup / Paperback 95 pages / Published February 2000
This book is a complete and comprehensive guide to driftboats and their operation, covering such issues as their history, their controversy, solutions to common river problems, the future of driftboating, and a great deal more. Includes how to handle a driftboat, purchasing and outfitting a driftboat, and rowing basics to row your boat. How to read the river, identify and avoid the dangerous river features.
Includes over 1500 rare pictures fron th first drift boats and the pioneers that built them and proved their value on the wildest rivers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a beginning driftboater, this guide has all the information that you will need to ensure that your driftboat trips are safe, well organized, and fun.
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