Me too! A rather humbling experience wasn't it.....

You can get the 1995 UK reprint of "In the ring of the rise" from Coch y Bonddhu books for £17.95 and recently it was on offer cheaper. I bought a copy and very good it is, although I found it more like a series of very good linked essays on river fishing topics than a single flowing narrative.

As has been said, Lapsley offers a good simple "soup to nuts" for UK river fly fishers, and O'Reilly is a peerless refernce book because it cuts through a lot of the entomology cant...he advises you can go into the subject as deeply or not as you wish and still catch.

Incidentally I saw from Charles Jardine's intro to "ring...." that Marinaro was "a crusty, opinionated gent with unshakeable faith in his theories". He'd have got on well with one or two folks on here, then

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i don't think there is duty to be paid on books.

jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

As great a book as Marinaro's is, it was all said before (1931) by Col. E. W. Harding in "The Flyfisher & the Trout's Point of View". The UK original will cost you the proverbial arm and leg, but there was a 1993 reprint by Derrydale in the US which you can sometimes pick up for around £20.

Another two to set you thinking, are J. C. Mottram's 1921 "Fly-Fishing - Some New Arts & Mysteries" (Derrydale reprint again, or Fly Fisher's Classic Library), and J. W. Dunne's 1924 "Sunshine & The Dry Fly".

A good summary of dry fly theory can also be found in Conrad Voss Bark's 1996 "The Dry Fly - Progress since Halford", and in much of his other writings.

Enjoy!

regards,

Doc

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Shallow Dave.

thanks guys,im really spoilt for choice now i dont kno which one is best,so im gonna put them all on pieces of paper and pull 2 out and they will be the one`s im going to get.


many thanks again for all your advice.


del

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Frank Sawyer 1964

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My copy of "In The Ring Of The Rise" arrived yesterday from the USA. What a very very good book this is. Compelling and so well written.

Scotfly: Respect is due

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"A homeward tramp thro' mist wrapped night,
With heart and creel in common light,
Complete content, the day has brought it,
They fished for pleasure - and they caught it"

P F Morgan
taken from the catch record book at Llanthony Hotel, Honddu Valley, Aug 1942

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Mine arrived a few days ago, but I am thick so I is only looking at the pictures. My copy of the the Lapsley book has also arrived. Iwill let know how my thoughts in a few weeks when I have got into them.