Ed Engle: 7 books

When fishing gets tough, fly fishers might be tempted to use bigger, flashier flies, but expert angler Ed Engle knows that tiny, sparsely dressed flies often work when nothing else will. With a little attention to tying the flies and fishing technique, fly fishers will take trout on flies as small...

This is an autobiography of Edward C. Engle.  It tells the story of his childhood and education and eventual migration to the Navy as a bombardier/navigator in the A-6 Intruder aircraft.  He explains the systems, the tactics, and the ordnance used against an implacable enemy over Laos, South Vietnam,...

This is an autobiography of Edward C. Engle. It tells the story of his childhood and education and eventual migration to the Navy as a bombardier/navigator in the A-6 Intruder aircraft. He explains the systems, the tactics, and the ordnance used against an implacable enemy over Laos, South Vietnam,...

Strategies for fast, slow, dirty, high, or low water. Using familiar patterns and techniques in unusual ways. What to do when trout are uncooperative for no good reason.

The fishing companion to Tying Small Flies. Instructions and illustrations for tricky casts, including pile, reach, parachute, and downstream-and-across reach. Techniques for dead-drift nymphing, freestyle nymphing, and fishing dry-fly and in-the-film plus how to fish tiny mayflies, Tricos, Pale Morning Duns, midges, microcaddis, terrestrials.

Interviews with 16 contemporary rodmakers. Tips on caring for a bamboo rod.

Midge larvae and pupae, tiny parachutes, floating nymphs, micro scuds, tiny ants. Choosing the right hook, thread, wire, and amount of weight for small flies plus 75 patterns, including Brassie, RS-2, Renegade, Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear, Griffith's Gnat. Foreword by John Gierach.