What Fly Fishing Book?

John wrote:

What kind of fly fishing book is YOUR favorite and why?


Far, far my favorite (and I own many, many more than 140) is 'Rod and
Line', a collection of essays written by Arthur Ransome. He's best
known as the author of a series of children's books about sailing in
the Lake District in England, 'Swallows and Amazons'. But he covered
the Russian Revolution for the Manchester Guardian, played chess
regularly with Lenin, eloped with and married Trotsky's secretary,,
Evgania, and became fishing correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.

'Rod and Line' is a collection of those essays, with titles such as
'the benign moment', 'saving a blank', 'the dry-fly strike'.

He was a passionate, intelligent fisherman, and a beautiful writer.

Below that I'd put an Irish book: 'A man may fish' by Kingsmill Moore

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