Since I was a fishing nut way before I could ever drive and nobody else in my familty really fished, I read and read and read.
Its hard to pick to books.
But if I must I would have to say The Year of the Angler and Steelhead Water.
The Year of the Angler because Steve Raymond is an amazing author, the most underrated author in fishing and Steelhead Water because it applies to my home waters and it hooked me on flyfishing for steelhead. There are some chapters of Steelhead Water Ive read over and over and over again. It truly is a great read.
Steelhead Flyfishing is awesome too, the amount of information that is in that book is incredible so is Deke Meyer's and Steelhead Drift Fishing. Anybody who wants to fish for steelhead, Steelhead Driftfishing by Herzog is a MUST.
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Ryan