Dave Hughes: 17 books

The sheer variety of fly-fishing environments and experience covered in Taking Trout make it a worthy addition to a fishing library. Fishing a canyon stream with midges, Hughes teaches the basics of presentation. Fishing stair steps, Hughes covers strategies to prevent drag. Fishing bank water, Hughes...

Dave Hughes has long believed that wet flies have an essential place in everyone's fly box and repertoire of trout tactics. That's why he has updated this 1995 classic with the benefit of the last two decades of developments in materials, tying, and fishing techniques.

If you fly fish, you need flies. Which ones to choose for taking trout? Here are the 50 proven, go-to patterns that every trout fly fisher should carry to catch trout almost all the time, anywhere in the world of trout streams and still waters. From the hundreds of trout patterns available to today’s...

A reflective, exuberant collection of stories and essays about Hughes' home water near his hometown, Astoria, Oregon.

• Second edition, completely updated in full color • Covers every water type--riffles, runs, pools, flats, pocket water, bank water • Learn how to find trout by studying currents, temperatures, oxygen levels, and food sources • 140 color photos pinpoint trout locations in specific water types

Fundamentals for the beginning fly fisher. Tips on rod and reel selection, tackle and tying techniques, basic and advanced casting methods.

Choosing the right line and rod for small stream fishing.

Popular reference work updated with full-color photos of the insects. An understandable approach and useful guide to fishing hatches. Covers mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, midges, dragonflies, boatmen, alderflies, and hellgrammites.

Three well-known fly fishers (and friends) come together to share the solid technical know-how they've learned from years of fishing the ever-elusive trout.

The fly-fishing trio offers winning practical advice and years of wisdom for catching trout all year long, no matter the season.

How to tie the 31 most effective trout patterns and selected variations-more than 200 recipes in all. "Essential Trout Flies will help you assemble, in just two fly boxes, the flies you need to catch trout anywhere. That makes it essential reading in my book." - Rich Ostoff, professional fly tier and author of Fly-Fishing the Rocky Mountain Back-Country

90 hatches including mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, midges, and terrestrials are included.

This second edition contains new chapters on reading the seasons and tenkara and is superbly illustrated with more than 100 new color photos.

The authoritative book on nymphs. Step-by-step instructions for 112 useful nymph flies. More than 900 photos of natural nymphs, their imitations, and steps in tying those flies.