Vintage Rare Books on disk DVD in PDF format

 

 

~ Fly Fishing ~ 

 

230 Vintage Books 

 Rare Vintage books scanned to PDF format

 

The most Complete Library available

 

Deluxe Edition on 
USB Flash Drive

 

 

   

Fly  Fishing

Fly fishing is an angling method in which an artificial "fly" is used to catch fish. The fly is cast using a fly rod, reel, and specialized weighted line. Casting a nearly weightless fly or "lure" requires casting techniques significantly different from other forms of casting. Fly fishermen use hand tied flies that resemble natural invertebrates, baitfish, other food organisms, or "lures" to provoke the fish to strike (bite at the fly).

Fly fishing can be done in fresh or salt water. North Americans usually distinguish freshwater fishing between cold-water species (trout, salmon, steelhead) and warm-water species, notably bass. In Britain, where natural water temperatures vary less, the distinction is between game fishing for trout and salmon versus coarse fishing for other species. Techniques for fly fishing differ with habitat (lakes and ponds, small streams, large rivers, bays and estuaries, and open ocean.)

 

 

A Totally unique and unrivalled collection

 


 

The most Complete Library available

 

 

 

N.B there is NO BOX or physical books included in the purchase - you will receive a USB flash drive containing the books in PDF format for use on your Computer.

 
 

The colour and style of the USB drive may vary from the picture, we will send whatever drive we currently have available, a particular colour or style cannot be pre-selected.

 

 

On The Drive

 

This unique drive is an opportunity to own these rare and collectible vintage books before they disappear forever. Some of the books are already unavailable and but for being scanned into digital format would never be seen again.

Each page has been scanned in as a faithful reproduction of the original. This is a chance to be able to see books that would otherwise be lost to future generations.

The drive contains rare out-of-print books relating to Fly Fishing. Each book is individually named on the drive and thus is easily searchable by title, and each book is individually searchable itself.

Be Aware - that other sellers may pad out their collection of books with foreign language titles or books that are not relevant to the topic. Compare items and you will see the quality and effort that goes into our disks. Other sellers also put security lock on the books which requires a password (which they wont give you) so it is restricted as to what you can do with the books - all our books are completely unrestricted. In addition all our books are fully named exactly as you see in the list below making them easy to find and easily searchable - other sellers may simply supply you a disk with books named randomly making it virtually impossible to find the book you want.

IMPORTANT: These books come supplied on a USB Flash Drive - note that this is not a USB drive that will that will "play" on a home DVD player or TV, it contains no video whatsoever. It is a Data Drive and must be used on a Computer to view the PDF book files 

 

 

Books on USB Flash Drive

A concise practical treatise on artificial fly fishing for trout - Drake,Grey1860
A day's angling on the Almond - Fayle,Frank-1862
A handbook of angling - teaching fly-fishing, trolling, bottom-fishing, and salmon-fishing - E.  Fitzgibbon (1847)
A handbook of angling - teaching fly-fishing, trolling, bottom-fishing, and salmon-fishing [Fourth Edition] - E.  Fitzgibbon (1865)
A handy guide to dry-fly fishing; with a series of graduated exercises for all who wish to learn it - R. Glover (1890)
A history of fly fishing for trout - J. W. Hills 1921
A Scottish fly-fisher - Leitch,A-1911
A true treatise on the art of fly-fishing, trolling, etc. - W. Shipley (1838)
A year of liberty; or, Salmon angling in Ireland, from Feb. 1 to Nov. 1 - W. Peard 1867
All about trout fishing (1909) - Riddell, J. A
Alphabet of scientific angling for the use of beginners (1833)
Amateur rodmaking (1914) -  Frazer, Perry D
American trout-stream insects - a guide to angling flies and other aquatic insects alluring to trout - L. Rhead 1916
Angler's guide to the rivers & lochs of Scotland - R. Blakey (1854)
Angling - a practical guide to bottom fishing, trolling, spinning, and fly-fishing - J. T. Burgess (1867) 2
Angling - a practical guide to bottom fishing, trolling, spinning, and fly-fishing - J. T. Burgess (1867)
Angling - F Francis (1883)
Angling - L Yale (1897)
Angling and how to Angle A Practical Guide to Bait-fishing, Trolling, Spinning and Fly-fishing - J. T. Burgess (1895)
Angling holidays; in pursuit of salmon, trout and pike-Gedney, Charles William-1896
Angling Sketches - A Lang (1895)
Artificial flies and how to make them - M. A. Shipley 1888
Autumns on the Spey. With four illustrations by Wolf - A E Know 1872
Blacker's Art of Fly Fishing-William Blacker-1855
Book of the black bass, together with a practical treatise on angling and fly fishing and a full description of tools, tackle and implements - J. Henshall (1881)
Bowlker's Art of Angling Containing Directions for Fly-fishing, Trolling, Making Artificial Flies, etc. - C. Bowlker - (1854)
Boys Own Guide to Fishing-Keene, John Harrington-1894
British angling flies - M. Theakston 1862
Brook and river trouting-Edmonds,Harfield H-1916
Brook trout fishing-Allerton,Reuben G-1869
Catching the wily sea-trout-A. R.Harris Gass-1900
Chalkstream and moorland, thoughts on trout-fishing - H. Russell (1911)
Clear waters-Bradley,A.G-1914
Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed - W. Scrope 1885
Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed - with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon,  etc - W. Scrope (1843)
Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed - with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon,  etc - W. Scrope (1898)
Dry Fly Entomology - F. M. Halford (1897)
Dry Fly Trout Fishing - W Michael
Dry-Fly Fishing - R.C.Bridgett-1922
Dry-fly fishing for trout and grayling-Englefield,James-1908
Dry-fly fishing in border waters  - Ferni, Frederick-1912
Dry-fly Fishing in Theory and Practice - Halford,Frederic M.-1902
Exmoor Streams - Claude Fitz-Roy Wade-1903
Facts and Fancies of Salmon Fishing - CLERICUS-1874
Favorite flies and their histories - M. O. Marbury 1892
Fish and fishing in the long glens of Scotland - R. Knox 1854
Fishcraft, a treatise on fresh water fish and fishing, modes of angling for them suitable tackle, etc. - F. E. Pond (1922)
Fishing - H. Cholmondeley-Pennell (1889)
Fishing gossip; or, Stray leaves from the note-books of several anglers - H Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
Fishing in Eden, to which are added some practical notes on flies and tackle - W. Nelson (1922)
Fishing tackle - P. D. Frazer (1914)
Fishing tackle, its materials and manufacture - a practical guide to the best modes and methods of making every kind of appliance necessary for taking freshwater fish - J. Keene (1886)
Fishing tackle; modern improvements in angling gear, with instructions on tackle-making for the amateur - Wielder (1922)
Fishing with floating flies - S. C. Camp 1913
Fishing with the fly - C Orvis 1883
Fishing, tackle and kits - C. B. Cook (1919)
Flies and fly fishing for white and brown trout, grayling - J. Dick 1873
Flies and fly fishing for white and brown trout, grayling and coarse fish - Capt St John Dick 1873
Floating flies and how to dress them -.... methods of dressing artificial flies for trout and grayling - F. M. Halford 1886
Flood, field and forest - G. Rooper 187-
Fly Fishing - E Grey 1920
Fly fishing for trout and bass - C Johnson 1893
Fly fishing in wonderland - O. P. Barnes (1910)
Fly rods and fly-tackle; suggestions as to their manufacture and use - H. P. Wells 1901
Fly-fishing and fly-making for trout, etc - J. H. Keene 1887
Fly-fishing and worm-fishing for salmon, trout and grayling - H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 1878
Fly-fishing in Maine lakes or, camp-life in the wilderness - C. W. Stevens 1881
Fly-fishing in salt and fresh water - H. G. Hutchinson (1851)
Forty years of trout and salmon fishing - J. L. Dickie 1921
Frank Forester's Fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America - H. W. Herbert 1849
G. Little & Co. fishing rod & tackle manufacturers and fly dressers - Giles Little & Co. London (1879)
Halcyon; or, Rod-fishing with fly, minnow, and worm.  H. Wade 1861
How to catch trout - 'Three Anglers' 1889
How to dress salmon flies - a handbook for amateurs - T. E. Pryce-Tannant 1914
How to fish the dry fly - L. J. Rhead 1921
How to fish, a treatise on trout & trout-fishers. With eight full-page illustrations- W  Hodgson 1907
How to tie salmon flies; .....with illustrated directions, and containing the dressings of forty flies  J. H. Haley 1892
In pursuit of the trout - G. A. B. Dewar 1898
In the land of the beautiful trout - A. T. Johnson 1907
Lake and stream game fishing - a practical book on the popular fresh-water game fish, the tackle necessary and how to use it - C. B. Cook (1917)
Letters to a salmon fisher's sons - A. H. Chaytor 1910
Life-history and habits of the salmon, sea-trout, trout, and other freshwater fish - Malloch,P.D-1910
Lochs and loch fishing - S. Hamish 1899
Minor tactics of the chalk stream and kindred studies - G. Skues 1910
Modern development of the dry fly - the new dry fly patterns, the manipulation of dressing them - F. M. Halford 1910
Modern improvements in fishing tackle and fish hooks - H. Cholmondeley-Pennell (188-)
Moorland and stream - with notes and prose idylls on shooting and trout fishing - W. Barry 1871
Moose-hunting, salmon-fishing and other sketches of sport -  T. R. Pattillo 1902
More about the black bass - J. A. Henshall (1889)
Mostly about trout - G. Aston 1921
My life as an angler - W. Henderson 1879
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 - T Pritt 1866
Observations on a salmon river - F. J. Griswold 1922
Ogden on fly tying, etc  J. Ogden 1887
Old flies in new dresses; how to dress dry flies with the wings in the natural position and some new wet flies - C Walker 1898
Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon - G. Dawson 1876
Practical dry-fly fishing - E. M. Gill (1915
Practical fly fishing - L. St. John 1920
Practical fly-fishing, by Arundo - j Beever 1849
Practical fly-fishing, founded on nature - J. Beever 1893
Rambles and recollections of a fly-fisher. - W. Cartwright 1854
Recollections - A. Lansing 1909
Recollections of fly fishing for salmon, trout, and grayling, with notes on their haunts, habits, and history - E Hamilton 1884
Red palmer - a practical treatise on fly fishing - J. Tayler 1888
River angling for salmon and trout; with a memoir and list of the tweed salmon casts - J. Younger 1864
Rod and river, or, Fly-fishing for salmon, trout and grayling - A. T. Fisher 1892
Rod-fishing in clear waters by fly, minnow, and worm - with a short and easy method to the art of dressing flies - H. Wade 1860
Salmon and sea trout - how to propagate, preserve, and catch them in British waters - H. Maxwell 1898
Salmon and trout - D. Sage 1904
Salmon fishing - J. J. Hardy 1907
Salmon fishing - W Hodgson 1920
Salmon-casts and stray shots - J. Colquhoun 1858
Salmon-fishing in Canada - A Resident 1860
Salmon-fishing in Canada - W Adamson 1860
Salmon-fishing on the grand Cascapedia - E. W. Davis 1904
Salmonia; or, Days of fly fishing. With some accounts of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo - H. Davy 1870
Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland - W A Chatto 1834
Secrets of the salmon - E. R. Hewitt 1922
Shooting and salmon fishing, and Highland sport - A. Grimble 1902
Shooting and salmon fishing; hints and recollections - A. Grimble 1892
Streamcraft; an angling manual. Profusely illustrated including ten color-plates - G. P. Holden 1919
Superior fishing, Embracing full directions for dressing artificial flies with the feathers of American birds - R. Roosevelt (1884)
The Adventures of a Salmon - notes for the Fly Fisher (1853)
The American angler's book ....., with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making and rod-making - T Norris 1865
The American salmon fisherman - H. P. Wells 1886
The angler and the loop-rod Webster, Daviid1885
The angler; comprising proper instructions in the art, with rules to choose fishing rods, lines, hooks, floats, baits, and to make artificial flies - T. Lathy (1822)
The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland-Stoddart, Thomas Tod-1847
The angler's companion, a popular and practical handbook to the art of angling - T. T. Stoddart (1892)
The angler's complete guide and companion - Little,G. -1881
The angler's complete guide to the rivers and lakes of England-Robert Blakey-1853
The angler's desideratum…dressing artificial fly - 1839
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1882-Cox, Irvine Edward Bainbridge
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1885 - Cox, Irvine Edward Bainbridge
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1889-Cox, Irvine Edward Bainbridge
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1899-Cox, Irvine Edward Bainbridge
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1902
The Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer 1907-Cox, Irvine Edward Bainbridge
The angler's guide; a handbook of the haunts and habits of the popular game fishes - C. B. Bradford (1908)
The angler's guide; or, Complete London angler - T. F. Salter 1814
The Angler's Manual - or Fly-Fisher's Oracle-John Turton-1836
The angler's museum or, The whole art of float and fly fishing - T Shirley 1784
The angler's vade mecum, - account of the water flies, their seasons-Carroll, William-1818
The angler's workshop - P. D. Frazer (1908)
The art of trout fishing on rapid streams  - H. C. Cutcliffe 1889
The art of worm-fishing, a practical treatise on clear-water worming - A. Mackie 1912
The autobiography of the late Salmo Salar, esq-Rooper, George-1867
The book of the dry fly - G.. Dewar 1910
The book of the dry fly-Dewar, George Albemarle Bertie-1910
The Book of the Grayling-Pritt,T.E-1888
The book of the salmon; Usefully illustrated with numerous coloured engravings of salmon-flies, and salmon-fry - E. Fitzgibbon (1850)
The book of the salmon-Ephemera-1850
The border angler - a guide-book to the Tweed and its tributaries - J. G. Bertram (1858)
The boy's own guide to fishing, tackle-making and fish-breeding - J. H. Keene (1894)
The British Angler's Lexicon-Richard Niven-1892
The British angler's manual, or, The art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland - T. C. Hofland (1839)
The British angler's manual, or, The art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland [New Edition] - T. C. Hofland (1848)
The brook trout and the determined angler-Bradford,Charles Barker-1900
The Cascapedia Club - F. G. Griswold 1920
The Complete angler; a practical guide to bottom fishing, trolling, spinning, and fly-fishing - (1891)
The Complete Angler-Charles Cotton-1875
The Complete Science of Fly Fishing and Spinning - Shaw,Fred.G-1915
The determined angler and the brook trout - Bradford,Charles Barker-1916
The dry fly and fast water - La Branche,George Michel Lucien-1914
The dry fly and fast water; fishing with the floating fly on American trout streams - G. LaBranche 1914
The dry-fly fisherman's entomology-Mosely,Martin E-1921
The dry-fly man's handbook; a complete manual - Halford,Frederic M.-1913
The English lakes - Bradley, A. G.-1910
The Erne, its legends and its fly-fishing - Newland, Henry-1851
The fishing-rod and how to use it a treatise on the various arts of angling, trolling, spinning, and fly-fishing - Glenfin 1860
The fly fisher's guide - illustrated by coloured plates ... forty of the most useful flies, accurately copied from nature - G Bainbridge 1816
The fly fisher's text book - T. South 1841
The fly-fisher's entomology - A. Ronalds (1836)
The fly-fisher's entomology with coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect [Tenth Edition] - A. Ronalds (1839)
The game fish of the northern States and British Provinces, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc. - R. Roosevelt (1865)
The game fish of the northern States and British Provinces, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc. - R. Roosevelt (1884)
The hand-book of angling for Scotland and the border counties, embracing the practical experience of thirty years' fishing, with map and routes, etc. - J. Robertson (1861)
The illustrated fly-fisher's text book  a complete guide to the science of fly-fishing for salmon, trout, grayling - E Chitty 1845
The jolly angler; or, Waterside companion - J. March (1831)
The modern angler, containing instructions in the art of fly-fishing - Otter 1864
The modern practical angler. A complete guide to fly-fishing, bottom-fishing & trolling - H Cholmondeley-Pennell  (1870)
The natural trout fly and its imitations - L. West 1921
The northern angler, or, Fly-fisher's companion - J. Kirkbride 1837
The origin of the silver eel with remarks on bait & fly fishing - D Cairncross 1862
The practical angler; or The art of trout-fishing more particularly applied to clear water - W. C. Stewart 1861
The practical fisherman - dealing with the natural history, the legendary lore, the capture of British freshwater fish, and tackle and tackle making - J. H. Keene (1881)
The practical fly-fisher; more particularly for grayling or umber - J Jackson 1880
The rod and line or, Practical hints and dainty devices for the sure taking of trout, graylings -  H. Wheatley 1849
The salmon - A. E. Gathorne-Hardy 1898
The salmon fisher - C. Hallock 1890
The salmon fly - how to dress it and how to use it - G. M. Kelson 1895
The salmon rivers and lochs of Scotland - W. L. Calderwood (1909)
The salmon rivers and lochs of Scotland - W. L. Calderwood (1921)
The salmon rivers of Scotland - Grimble, Augustus-1913
The science of dry fly fishing and salmon fly fishing - F. G. Shaw 1907
The south country trout streams - G. A. B. Dewar 1899
The speckled brook trout - L. Rhead 1902
The trout - H. Rutland (1899)
The trout - H. Rutland (1904)
The trout - H. Rutland 1898
The trout are rising in England and South Africa; a book for slippered ease - B. Bennion 1920
The trout fly dresser's cabinet of devices, or How to tie flies for trout and grayling fishing. With eighty illustrations - H. G. McClelland 1919
The trout waters of England - a practical guide to the fisherman for sea trout, brown trout, and grayling - W Gallichan 1908
The Universal Angler, Or, That Art Improved in All Its Parts, Especially in Fly-fishing - R Bowlker 1766
The vade-mecum of fly-fishing for trout -.... instructions for the manufacture of artificial flies - G. Pulman 1851
The way of a trout with a fly and some further studies in minor tactics - G Skues 1921
The Wonderful Trout - J A Harvie-Brown 1898
The Young Angler's Guide Comprising Instructions in the Arts of Fly-fishing... - J. Cheek (1839) 2
The Young Angler's Guide Comprising Instructions in the Arts of Fly-fishing... - J. Cheek (1839)
Tournament casting and the proper equipment - L Darling 1907
Trout and how to catch them - P. Castle 1920
Trout fishing - memories and morals - H Sheringham 1920
Trout fishing - W. E. Hodgson 1904
Trout fishing in the Isle of Man - S Tod 189-
Trout flies of Devon and Cornwall, and when and how to use them - G. W. Soltau 1847
Trout fly-fishing in America - C. Z. Southard 1914
Trout in lakes and reservoirs; a practical guide to managing, stocking, and fishing - E. Phillips 1914
Trout in New Zealand where to go and how to catch them - W. H. Speckman 1892
Trout lore - O. W. Smith 1917
Trout waters management and angling - W. H. Armistead 1920
Trout-fishing and sport in Maoriland - G. D. Hamilton 1904
Trout-fishing for the beginner - R. Clapham 1922
Trout-fishing in brooks, its science and art - C. Garrow-Green 1919
Trouting on the Brulé River, or Summer-wayfaring in the northern wilderness - J. L. King 1879
W. Blacker's art of angling, and complete system of fly making and dying of colours - W. Blacker 1842
Wanny blossoms - a book of song ; with a brief treatise on fishing with the fly, worm, minnow and moe - J. Armstrong (1879)
Wet-fly fishing treated methodically - E. M. Tod 1907
Wild sports of the West of Ireland; - Maxwell,W.-1892
Wings and hackle; a pot-pourri of fly fishing for trout and grayling ...- R. Hill 1912
With fly-rod and camera - E. A. Samuels (1890) 2
With fly-rod and camera - E. A. Samuels (1890)
Yorkshire trout flies; comprising ll plates of illustrations ...  by T.Pritt 1885

 

The Nature of Scanned Books

You will get a copy of each of the scanned books in PDF format. The PDF will be a replica of the book in exactly the condition it was available to us - so that will necessarily mean that the book will have inevitable signs of ageing. Some of the books in our collection are over 400 years old - it is not possible to maintain a book in pristine condition for that length of time. In addition any marks made by the previous owners will also be present. We do not consider that to be  a flaw of the product but rather adds to its authenticity.

Searchable - Each file is fully named on the disk so it is easy to search and find a particular title. In addition  each book is searchable and individual sections or pages  can easily be printed.

Viewing - The books will require suitable PDF software to view them, almost certainly you will already have this on your computer or device - if not such software is universally available for Free download.

Sizing - Page size can be adjusted to suit your needs for viewing text or images.

Printing - A complete book is printable, or individual sections or just individual pages too.

Images - All images can be printed out and used as you wish.

 

About the Drive

 

The drive is not suitable for use on a home DVD player connected to your TV or audio device. The drive contains PDF files (these are electronic books) which can be viewed on your computer. You can easily convert the PDF files to a similar format suitable for viewing on your Tablet, mobile phone, Kindle, eBook reader or other device using the totally free software called Calibre.

Please Note - Physical books are not included in this purchase; all books are scans of the original books in PDF digital format only. You will receive your USB drive only - there is no box included. The cost of a box plus associated increase in postage and packaging would mean the price of the item would need to at least double and we find that our customers do not value a box but rather they value the contents of our drives

 

Shipping

 

All items are shipped from the UK. We despatch within one business day of receiving the order, please note that whilst we can despatch purchases quickly we cannot control the delivery time it takes to reach you.

For UK deliveries the standard service is second class post shipped in secure packaging.

For non-UK deliveries; the standard posting method is Airmail. Please be aware that Airmail delivery times can vary greatly even within the same country, there is not a standard time and please do not expect your item to arrive within a few days - it simply will not happen.

The "Anticipated Delivery" date is given by eBay , not us, and quite frankly should be totally ignored because it is not a true reflection of the reality. There is an option to have tracked international shipping (it is an option in the postage section of the listing) - tracked delivery is far more secure, it can often be quicker but is relatively expensive; we charge just for the cost of the service plus our additional time in organising it; it is entirely optional whether you make use of that service or not.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

 

We feel certain you will be delighted with your purchase. If however for any reason you have cause for concern then please contact us. We are always happy to resolve any issue to your satisfaction and offer a full no-quibble money-back guarantee. We purchase many different items ourselves on eBay and understand the need for quality customer service.

Please note - before contacting us with a query that the USB drive is intended to be use on a computer only (with suitable PDF reader software) - it will not work on a home DVD player connected to your TV or a "smart" TV etc. The drive does not contain audio or video files; it is a data drive with PDFs on it

 

 

DELIVERY time-scale  - Note to All Non-UK Buyers 

In 99.9% of cases we will post your international purchase to you within one Business day but after that we have absolutely no control over the speed, efficiency or effectiveness  of the particular delivery service that you have selected.


So please be aware of the following:


1. Anticipated delivery is set by eBay (not us) and should be ignored.

2. There is no set time for when your Airmail item will arrive. It may be 2 weeks, it may be 4 weeks (yes items can often take that long to be delivered); but almost certainly it will not be 5 days.

3. Standard Airmail delivery WILL NOT INCLUDE TRACKING – that service is available for an extra charge. Tracking will make  the delivery more secure but does not necessarily speed up the delivery time (we charge extra for tracking simply because that is what Royal Mail charge us).


Please form your expectations on the basis of the points raised above – the same points apply for all sellers though they may not openly say it; but we prefer to create a realistic expectation and as a result have a harmonious relationship rather  than tell you it will arrive in 4 days and then have to deal with the fallout from that when it doesn’t happen.

For any queries please feel free to send us a message using the eBay message system.