Fly Fishing and Aquatic Entomology Books

Fly Fishing and Aquatic Entomology Books

I wrote much of this site by combining and reconciling information from different angler-entomology books, professional entomology books, and scientific papers. They're all cited on the pages where their information is used. This page only lists the books.

• Arbona, Fred Jr. 1989. Mayflies, the Angler, and the Trout. Nick Lyons Books.
• Bates, Joseph D. Jr. 1966. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing . The Stackpole Company.
• Behnke, Robert J. 2002. Trout and Salmon of North America. The Free Press.
• Bergman, Ray. 1976. Trout. The Derrydale Press.
• Berner, Lewis, and Manuel L. Pescador. 1988. The Mayflies of Florida.
• Borger, Gary A. 1991. Designing Trout Flies. Tomorrow River Press.
• Brigham, W.U., A.K. Brigham, and A. Gnilke. 1982. Aquatic Insects and Oligochaetes of North and South Carolina. Midwest Aquatic Entomologist.
• Burks, B.D. 1953. The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois . Entomological Reprint Specialists.
• Caposella, Jim. 2002. Good Fishing in the Catskills . Backcountry Guides.
• Caucci, Al. 2011. The Mayfly Guide. Scott & Nix, Inc.
• Caucci, Al and Bob Nastasi. 1983. Instant Mayfly Identification Guide. Comparahatch Ltd.
• Caucci, Al and Nastasi, Bob. 2004. Hatches II. The Lyons Press.
• Cutter, Ralph. 2005. Fish Food: A Fly Fisher's Guide to Bugs and bait. Stackpole Books.
• Fauceglia, Ted. 2005. Mayflies . Stackpole Books.
• Filkins, Kenn. 2000. Fly Fishing for Salmon and Steelhead of the Great Lakes. Wilderness Adventure Books.
• Flannagan, John F., and K. Eric Marshall. 1980. Advances in ephemeroptera biology. Plenum Press.
• Galloup, Kelly. 2001. Cripples & Spinners. Dean Publishing.
• Gierach, John. 1994. Dances with Trout. FIRESIDE.
• Gonzales, Lloyd. 2005. Fly-Fishing Pressured Water. Stackpole Books.
• Hafele, Rick and Hughes, Dave. 1981. The Complete Book of Western Hatches: An Angler's Entomology and Fly Pattern Field Guide. Frank Amato Publications.
• Hafele, Rick and Hughes, Dave. 2004. Western Mayfly Hatches. Frank Amato Publications.
• Harvey, George W. 1985. Techniques of Trout Fishing and FlyTying. Metz Hatchery.
• Hughes, Dave. 1995. Wet Flies. Stackpole Books.
• Hughes, Dave. 2002. Trout from Small Streams . Stackpole Books.
• Hughes, Dave. 1999. Trout Flies. Stackpole Books.
• Hughes, Dave. 2001. Matching Mayflies. Frank Amato Publications.
• Humphreys, Joseph B. 1981. Joe Humphrey's Trout Tactics. Stackpole Books.
• Jorgensen, Poul. 1999. Salmon Flies. Stackpole Books.
• Juracek, John and Mathews, Craig. 1992. Fishing Yellowstone Hatches. Blue Ribbon Flies.
• Kustich, R. and Jerry Kustich. 1999. Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead - An Advanced Look at an Emerging Fishery (Hardcover) . West River Publishing.
• LaFontaine, Gary. 1990. The Dry Fly: New Angles . The Lyons Press.
• LaFontaine, Gary. 1981. Caddisflies. The Lyons Press.
• Lee, Art. 1998. Tying and Fishing the Riffling Hitch. Human Kinetics Publishers.
• Leeson, Ted and Jim Schollmeyer. 1998. The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles. Frank Amato Publications Inc.
• Linsenman Bob and Kelly Galloup. 1999. Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout: New Techniques, Tactics, and Patterns (Paperback) . The Countryman Press.
• MacQuarrie, Gordon. 1995. More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters. Willow Creek Press.
• Marinaro, Vincent. 1973. A Modern Dry-Fly Code. Crown Publishers, Inc.
• Marinaro, Vincent C. 1976. The Ring of the Rise. The Lyons Press.
• McCafferty, W.P. 1983. Aquatic Entomology: The Fishermen's Guide and Ecologists' Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• McCafferty, W.P., Jacobus, L.M., Provonsha, A.V., and Wiersema, N.A. 2017. Chapter 2 (Ephemeroptera) of Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species. Clemson University Public Service Publishing. 10-160.
• Merritt R.W., Cummins, K.W., and Berg, M.B. 2019. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (Fifth Edition). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
• Needham, James G., Jay R. Traver, and Yin-Chi Hsu. 1935. The Biology of Mayflies. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc.
• Newman, Eric. 2002. Flyfisher's Guide to New York. Wilderness Adventures Press, Inc.
• Osthoff, Rich. 2001. No Hatch to Match. Stackpole Books.
• Osthoff, Rich. 1999. Fly-Fishing the Rocky Montain Backcountry. Stackpole Books.
• Peckarsky, Barbara. 1990. Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America. Comstock Publishing.
• Peper, Eric and Gary LaFontaine. 2003. Fly Fishing the Beaverkill . The Lyons Press.
• Pobst, Dick. 1990. Trout Stream Insects: An Orvis Streamside Guide. The Lyons Press.
• Quinn, Thomas P. 2005. The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout. University of Washigton Press.
• Rosenbauer, Tom. 1998. The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams. The Lyons Press.
• Rosenbauer, Tom. 2000. The Orvis Guide to Prospecting for Trout . The Lyons Press.
• Rosenbauer, Tom. 2000. The Orvis Streamside Guide To Leaders, Knots, and Tippets. The Lyons Press.
• Schollmeyer, Jim. 2001. Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques . Frank Amato Publications.
• Schwiebert, Ernest. 1984. Death of a Riverkeeper . Creative Arts Book Company.
• Schwiebert, Ernest. 1973. Nymphs. Wichester Press.
• Schwiebert, Ernest. 1990. The Compleat Schwiebert . Dutton Adult.
• Schwiebert, Ernest G. 2007. Nymphs Volume I: The Mayflies: The Major Species. The Lyons Press.
• Schwiebert, Ernest G. 2007. Nymphs Volume II: Stoneflies, Caddisflies, and Other Important Insects: Including the Lesser Mayflies. The Lyons Press.
• Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1955. Matching the Hatch. MacMillan Publishing Company.
• Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1984. Remembrances of Rivers Past. Donald S. Ellis.
• Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1978. Trout. E.P. Dutton.
• Scott, Jack. 1982. Greased Line Fishing for Salmon [and Steelhead]. Frank Amato Publications.
• Stalcup, Shane. 2002. Mayflies "Top to Bottom" . Frank Amato Publications.
• Stark, B.P. 2017. Chapter 3 (Plecoptera) of Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species. Clemson University Public Service Publishing. 161-247.
• Stehr, Frederick W. 1998. Immature Insects. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
• Streeter, Robert W. 2000. New York Fly-Fishing Guide. Frank Amato Publishers.
• Supinski, Matt. 2001. Steelhead Dreams: The Theory, Method, Science and Madness of Great Lakes Steelhead Fly Fishing (Paperback) . Frank Amato Publications.
• Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. 2000. Selective Trout. The Lyons Press.
• Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. 1991. Emergers . The Lyons Press.
• Thomas C. Grubb Jr. 2003. The Mind of the Trout. University of Wisconsin Press.
• Thurston, Jay. 2005. Following in the Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. Savage Press.
• Usinger, R.L. 1956. Aquatic Insects California, with keys to North American Genera and California species. University of California Press.
• Usinger, Robert L. 1956. Aquatic Insects of California, with Keys to North American Genera and California Species. University of California Press.
• Wright, Leonard M. Jr. 1972. Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect . E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.