Read about our favorite rivers and lakes, find maps to the different fishing spots, learn about the local wildlife or just relax with a good story. You will find them all at the Stumptown Library!
Books
 Flyfisher's Guide to Montana
By Chuck Robbins.
This completely new guidebook details the wealth of great fly fishing in Big Sky Country. From major rivers such as the Yellowstone, Missouri, Beaverhead, Big Hole, Clark Fork, Bighorn, and Madison to the smallest fishable creeks and lakes, veteran fishing author Chuck Robbins tells anglers everything they need to know about Montana's best fisheries. This book introduces fly fishers to uncrowded waters well off the beaten path, including high country lakes where many of the fish have never seen a fly or lure and a few hidden gems in eastern Montana. The guide also includes 90+ detailed maps and other great travel and angling information. Paperback, 475 pages. Wilderness Adventure Press.
$28.95
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 Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide Revised Edition
Fish with success after reading this fly fishing guide authored by Orvis's own Tom Rosenbauer.
A fully updated, completely revised edition of a classic that's helped more than 200,000 anglers learn or improve upon the basics of fly fishing. More than 400+ new full color images will make it even easier for thousands more anglers to enjoy learning this great pastime. Heralded as the absolute best source on all aspects of fly fishing. By Tom Rosenbauer. Art by Bob White. Softcover; 271 pages.
$24.95
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 Orvis Vest Pocket Guide to Leaders, Knots, & Tippets
A Detailed Guide to Leader Construction, Fly-Fishing Knots, Tippets
By Tom Rosenbauer
You can't catch fish if your knots break. It's as simple as that. Includes instructions on tying the most useful and effective fly-fishing knots, constructing strong and smooth-casting leaders, understanding knot and tippet breaking strength, and selecting tippets for various species. Features numerous, easy-to-follow diagrams that'll get you rigged and ready to fish. The Lyons Press, 145 pages, paperback.
$12.95
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 Reading Trout Streams
A Guide on How To Fish For Trout
Reading Trout Streams is the second volume in Tom Rosenbauer's definitive series of guides about the sport of fly fishing. Following The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing, Reading Trout Streams takes the angler to the next level looking at the structure of rivers and streams, where trout prefer to live and why. This guide teaches the angler to look through the water, to see the currents and understand what is happening underneath. Trout find specific places to lie in the river to conserve energy, to easily access the food supply, and to avoid predators. This book is considered the best ever written on how to look at a river, read the water, and find those secret lies that hold big trout. 160 pages.
$17.95
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 Orvis Fly Tying Guide
By Tom Rosenbauer
This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread to whip finishing. The book lays the basic groundwork by fully explaining simple tying techniques and progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular modern patterns. Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater patterns and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one.Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for more than four decades and was tying commercially at age 14. He is the author of numerous books and articles on fly fishing and fly tying, and is the Director of Rod and Tackle Marketing at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont.
$29.95
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 Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die
This remarkable fly fishing guide book creates a global checklist for insatiable anglers.
This fly fishing guide book includes destination articles by Perk Perkins and Dave Perkins of Orvis. Chris Santella is a freelance writer, marketing consultant, and avid fly fisherman whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, and Fly Rod & Reel, among other publications. Santella offers 50 short takes on the ultimate fly-fishing destinations in this beautifully photographed and nicely packaged volume. Each locale comes recommended by an avid fisher. With its elegant descriptions, gorgeous photos and practical information on accommodations and equipment, this book is a dream travel guide for avid fly-fishers. Fly fishing guide book in hard cover. 224 pages.
$24.95
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 1001 Fly-Fishing Tips
Leading anglers come together to produce this comprehensive book of fly fishing tips.
Fly fishing tips book by Jay Nichols. Reading this one-of-a-kind collection of practical advice is like taking a fishing trip across the country with over twenty-five of the world's fly-fishing experts. Over 1,001 of the best fly-fishing tips compiled by the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman Magazine cover essentials from trout to tarpon, such as: casting with Lefty Kreh, matching the hatch with Charlie Meck, taking great fish photos with Barry and Cathy Beck, mastering mayflies with John Barr, catching selective trout with Mike Lawson, West Coast stripers with Dan Blanton, steelhead secrets with Lani Waller, and Spey casting with Simon Gawesworth. Soft cover fly fishing tips book. 216 pages.
$19.95
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 Orvis Story
Own a piece of fly fishing history
For thousands of our customers, Orvis represents more than a country lifestyle company. We are an integral part of the history and lore of fly fishing in America. A small business that began with a love of fly fishing on the banks of the famed Battenkill more than 150 years ago, we're the longest running fly fishing company in the United States. Our rod developers and builders are the only ones to have worked with every material from lancewood to bamboo, fiberglass and graphite, to carbon with thermoplastic resins. That makes for a lot of great stories. Many of them are told here, in the Orvis Story, for the first time ever. This book will give you an insider's look at the people and products that have made Orvis the leader in the fly fishing and sporting lifestyle world for more than 150 years.
$24.95-$98
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 Benchside Intro to Fly Tying
Master the art of fly tying with this guide book from Tom Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer.
The essential benchside fly tying guide book has an easy-to-use split page, spiral bound design. This guide book offers 3,000+ color photos and step-by-step instructions to give you the confidence to tie proven patterns easily. From masters Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer.
$45
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 Dry Fly Fishing
A Guide to Dry Fly Fishing
150 page guide about dry flies. This fly fishing field guide, written by Tom Rosenbauer, gives information on dry fly casting, strategies, fly selection, and presentation of dry flies.
$16.95
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 Nymphing Techniques
Fishing Techniques by Tom Rosenbauer
Tom Rosenbauer provides fly fishing techniques in the complete beginner's guide to nymphing. His book explains fly fishing tackle and tactics for subsurface angling. 132 pages of fishing techniques covering flies, indicators, and strategies.
$16.95
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 Orvis Pocket Guide to Streamer Fishing
A Guide to Streamer Fishing
This streamer fishing guide explains how, where, and when to use this effective technique, by Patrick Straub. The Orvis Pocket Guide to Streamer Fishing adds to the angler's repertoire the art of the streamer, with valuable advice on why the big trout go for the streamers, reading streamer-friendly waters, streamer techniques, tools of the trade, and proven patterns that really deliver. Author Author Patrick Straub, a guide for ten years, includes sections about casting philosophies, retrieves, drifting techniques, and fighting big fish. He also provides a survey of regional waters favorable to streamers, from Washington state to upstate New York, Alaska, and the Southwest. Hardcover.
$16.95
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