Online Books
Just click on the links below and you will be taken to the books. This is an amazing resource. Proof that, for all its faults the Web has a lot to commend it.
We are indebted to our internet wizard, Spike (a Yorkshireman through and through) for the following links.
Fishing gossip; or, Stray leaves from the note-books of several anglers – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1866
The modern practical angler. A complete guide to fly-fishing, bottom-fishing & trolling – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1870
Fly-fishing and worm-fishing for salmon, trout and grayling – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1876
Fishing Salmon and Trout – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1889 (fifth edition)
Fishing Salmon and Trout – (fifth edition – better copy)
Fishing Salmon and Trout (fourth edition 1888)
Fishing Pike And Other Coarse Fish – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1887
Bottom or Float-Fishing – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1876
Modern improvements in fishing tackle and fish hooks – H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1887
The Compleat Angler – Izaaz Walton 1676
Fishing – translation of The Latin of Vanier – Rev. John Duncombe 1809
Fishing with a Worm – Bliss Perry 1896
Fishing Tackle – Perry D Frazer 1914
Trout Fishing – W. Earl Hodgson 1920
Salmon Fishing – W. Earl Hodgson 1920
Tragic Fishing Moments – W.H. Dilg 1922
Fishing with the fly – C.F. Orvis 1885
Fly Fishing – Sir Edward Grey 1899
Fly Fishing (altern.)
Salmon Fishing- John James Hardy 1907
Coarse Fishing – H.T. Sheringham 1912
Trout fishing : memories and morals – H.T. Sheringham 1920
Practical Fly Fishing – Larry St John 1928
Dry-fly Fishing – R.C. Bridgett 1922
Fly Fishing in Wonderland – O.P. Barnes 1858
Let’s Go Fishing – L.V. Bates 1946
All About Trout Fishing – J.A. Riddell 1909
Fishing kits and equipment – S.G. Camp 1877
Fishing with floating flies – S.G. Camp 1877
The Fine Art of Fishing - S.G. Camp 1911
Favorite fish and fishing – J.A. Henshall 1908
Fishing at Home and Abroad – Sir Herbert Maxwell 1913
Fishing and Fishers – J.P. Taylor 1898
Science of Fishing – A.R. Harding 1912
In a Fishing Country – W.H. Blake 1897
Dry Fly Trout Fishing – W.W. Michael 1951
Practical Fresh Water Fishing – Francis E. Sell 1960
A Fishing Catechism – R.F. Meysey-Thompson 1905
Routledge’s Handbook of Fishing – Routledge 1867
The Science of Dry Fly Fishing and Salmon Fly Casting – Fred G. Shaw 1907
Fishing from the earliest times – William Radcliffe 1921
Notes on Fish and Fishing – J.J. Manley 1877
Fishing in Derbyshire and Around – W.M. Gallichan 1905
Fishing and Travel in Spain – W.M. Gallichan 1904
Anecdotes of Fish and Fishing – Thomas Boosey 1887
Pond Lake And Stream Fishing – Ben C. Robinson 1941
Practical dry-fly fishing – E.M. Gill 1912
A Handbook of Angling – Edward Fitzgibbon 1865
The Practical Angler or The art of trout-fishing more particularly applied to clear water - W.C. Stewart 1905
Angling: A Practical Guide – J.T. Burgess 1867
Fishing for pleasure and catching it – E. Marston 1906
Forty years of trout and salmon fishing – J.L. Dickie 1919
Wet-fly fishing treated methodically – Ewen M. Todd 1903
A History of Fly fishing for Trout – J.W. Hills 1921
North Punjab Fishing Club Anglers’ Handbook – George H. Lacy 1888
Trout and salmon fishing in Wales – G.A. Hansard 1834
Prehistoric fishing in Europe and North America – Charles Rau 1884
Rambles with a fishing-rod – E.S. Roscoe 1883
Making Fishing Rods As A Hobby – H. Brotherton 1960
Facts and Fancies of Salmon Fishing – William Cartwright 1874
The Art of Fishing: A Poem – T. W. Charleton 1819
The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs – Thomas Doubleday 1852
Practical Fly-fishing founded on nature – John Beever 1893
Trout-fishing for the beginner – R.Clapham 1922
Trout fishing in the Isle of Man – M.S. Tod 1865
Dry-fly fishing in border waters – Frederick Ferni 1912
The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams – H. C. Cutcliffe 1883
A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line – Leonard Mascall 1590
Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice – Frederic Michael Halford 1902
The fishing tourist: angler’s guide and reference book – Charles Hallock 1873
Fly-fishing and fly-making for trout, etc - John H. Keene 1887
Walton and some earlier writers on fish and fishing – Robert B. Marston 1894
Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing – James Tayler 1888
G. Little & co., fishing rod & tackle manufacturers and fly dressers … 1879
Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing – Richard Penn 1833
The Erne, its legends and its fly-fishing – Henry Newland 1851
Bowlker’s Art of Angling – Charles Bowlker 1854
The angler and his friend; or, Piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions – John Davy 1855
The Angler in the Lake District ; or Piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland – John Davy 1857
Salmonia: or, Days of Fly Fishing – Sir Humphrey Davy 1828
The Fly-fisher’s Entomology illustrated by coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, and accompanied by a few observations and instructions relative to trout-and-grayling fishing – Alfred Ronalds 1839
The Modern Angler, containing instructions in the art of fly-fishing, spinning and bottom-fishing, fully describing the tackle – H. Jervis Alfred
The Young angler’s guide : comprising instructions in the arts of fly-fishing, bottom-fishing, trolling, &c. ; illustrated with numerous fine engravings and wood-cuts – John Cheek 1839
Fishing Experiences or Half a Century, with instructions in the use of the fast reel – F. P. Hopkings 1893
Oppian’s Halieuticks of the nature of fishes and fishing of the ancients – Oppian 1772
Rod and River, or, Fly-fishing for Salmon, Trout and Grayling – Arthur Thomas Fisher 1892
Dry-fly Fishing for Trout and Grayling – James Englefield 1908
Flies and Fly Fishing for White and Brown Trout, Grayling – Harris St. John Dick 1873
The Origin of the Silver Eel : with remarks on bait & fly fishing – David Cairncross 1862
The Practical Fly-fisher: More Particularly for Grayling Or Umber – John Jackson 1854
The Complete Angler’s Vade-mecum: Being a Perfect Guide of Instruction – Thomas Williamson 1825
The Angler’s Vade-Mecum – Charles Farlow 1860
The Angler’s Vade Mecum, containing a descriptive account of the water flies, their seasons, and the kind of weather that brings them most on the water … to which is added, a description of the different baits used in angling, and where found – William Carrol 1818
The Fly-fisher’s Entomology – Alfred Ronalds 1849
The Angler’s Manual: Or, Fly-fisher’s Oracle. With a Brief Compendium on Bottom Fishing – John Turton 1836
The British angler’s manual, or, The art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland – Thomas Christopher Hofland – 1848
British Angling Flies – Michael Theakston 1883
North-country flies. Comprising eleven plates of hand-painted illustrations, from the author’s own drawings, with particulars of the dressings and season of each fly; and chapters on fishing the minnow, the creeper, the stonefly, and the worm in clear water, with an extra plate showing the hooks necessary therefore – Thomas Evan Pritt 1886
North-country Flies: (alternative copy) – Thomas Evan Pritt 1886
Brook and river trouting, a manual of modern north country methods, with coloured illustrations of flies and fly-dressing materials – Harfield H. Edmonds and Norman N. Lee 1916
A Treatise of Fysshynge wyth an Angle; by Dame Juliana Berners: being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496. With an introduction by M.C. Watkins
