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A number of these books can be difficult to track down (I know it took me years to find most), so be sure to check on Ebay, Amazon, Albis, and visit...
A number of these books can be difficult to track down (I know it took me years to find most), so be sure to check on Ebay, Amazon, Albis, and visit the Streamer List cache and the Classic Fly Tying trading floor for heads up on some books, hooks and materials.
![trolling flies for trout and salmon](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/trolling-flies-for-trout-and-salmon1-150x150.jpg)
Title: Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon
Author: Bob Leeman, Dick Stewart
Pages: 122 pages
Date: 1982 Softcover (1992 hardcover)
Publisher: Stephen Greene Press
ISBN: 093664401X
ISBN-13:978-0936644011
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/Streamer-fly-tying-and-fishing-130x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing (Revised Edition)
Author: Joseph D. Bates Jr., Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1995
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081171702X
ISBN-13: 9780811717021
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/streamer_flytying-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing
Author: Joseph D. Bates Jr., Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1966
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![streamer-fly-fishing-in-fre](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/streamer-fly-fishing-in-fre-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Fishing in Fresh and Salt Water
Author: Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 402
Date: 1950
Publisher: Van Nostrand
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![streamers and bucktails the big fish flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/streamers-and-bucktails-the-big-fish-flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamers and Bucktails - The Big Fish Flies
Author: Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1979
Publisher: Knoph
ISBN: 0394415884
ISBN-13: 978-0394415888
Availibility: | Amazon | Albris
![Carrie Stevens Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/Carrie-Stevens-Maker-of-Rangeley-Favorite-Trout-and-Salmon-Flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Carrie Stevens: Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies
Author: Graydon R. Hilyard, Leslie K. Hilyard
Pages:162
Date: 2000
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811703533
ISBN-13:978-0811703536
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![secrets-of-streamer-fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/secrets-of-streamer-fishing.jpg)
Title: Secrets of Streamer Fishing
Author: Gene L. Letourneau
Pages: 19
Date: 1949
Publisher: Letourneau-Nichols
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
This is a tough book to get a hold of and copies can go for upwards of $100 if they can be found. There is a small selection of patterns found on the back page and a wealth of knowledge packed into this small booklet.
![minnows-of-north-america](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/minnows-of-north-america.jpg)
Title: Minnows of North America and Their Streamer Imitations
Author: George Leonard Herter
Pages: 104
Date: 1971
Publisher: Herter's, Inc
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![fulsher_thunder_creek](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/fulsher_thunder_creek-150x150.jpg)
Title:Tying and Fishing the Thunder Creek Series
Author: Keith Fulsher
Pages: 101
Date: 1973
Publisher: Freshet Press
ISBN: 0883950189
ISBN-13: 978-0883950180
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![thunder_creek](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/thunder_creek-150x150.jpg)
Title: Thunder Creek Flies: Tying and Fishing the Classic Baitfish Imitations
Author: Keith Fulsher, David Klausmeyer
Pages: 106
Date: 2006
Publisher: Stackpole
ISBN: 0811701719
ISBN-13: 978-0811701716
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![tying classic freshwater streamers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/tying-classic-freshwater-streamers-150x150.jpg)
Title: Tying Classic Freshwater Streamers: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide
Author: David Klausmeyer
Pages: 150
Date: 2004
Publisher: Countryman Press
ISBN: 088150596X
ISBN-13: 978-0881505962
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![tandemstreamers_cover](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/tandemstreamers_cover-150x150.jpg)
Title: Tandem streamers: 24 favorite eastern patterns
Author: Robert (Bob) Young
Pages: 7
Date: 1995
Publisher:
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Forgotten Flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/forgotten-flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Forgotten Flies
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages:560
Date: 1999
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961034
ISBN-13:978-1886961036
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Vol 1](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/rare_unusual_1-150x150.jpg)
Title:Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A natural history
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages: 286
Date: 1994
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961018
ISBN-13:978-1886961012
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Imacon Color Scanner](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/rare_unusual_2-150x150.jpg)
Title: Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History (Volume Two - Birds and Mammals) (Volume Two)
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages: 345
Date: 1997
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961026
ISBN-13:978-1886961029
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![martinek_vol1](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/martinek_vol1.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Patterns for Trolling and Casting Volume 1
Author: Mike Martinek Jr.
Pages: 37
Date: 1993
Publisher: Mordax
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Title: Streamer Fly Patterns for Trolling and Casting Volume 2
Author: Mike Martinek Jr.
Pages: 50
Date: 1998
Publisher: Mordax
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Title: Eastern Streamers
Author: Dick Frost
Pages: 14
Date: 1979
Publisher: Heritage Printing Co.
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
This is quite a rare book to find. If you see a copy, grab it.
![Streamer fly fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/Streamer-fly-fishing-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer-Fly Fishing: A Practical Guide to the Best Patterns and Methods
Author: John Merwin
Pages:
Date: 2001
Publisher:
ISBN: 1585740411
ISBN-13:978-1585740413
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![tandem_streamers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/tandem_streamers.jpg)
Title: Tandem Streamers
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 188
Date: 2011
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
ISBN: 157188467X
ISBN-13: 978-1571884671
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![smelt_patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/smelt_patterns.jpg)
Title: Smelt Fly Patterns: Dressings Tying Fishing
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 61
Date: 1996
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
ISBN: 1571880712
ISBN-13: 978-1571880710
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![wilson_fly_patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/wilson_fly_patterns-150x150.jpg)
Title: Wilson Fly Patterns
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 40
Date: 2005
Publisher: Flyfishing University
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Copies may be found by contacting Christine Wilson - Adventures in Angling
Attn: Christine D. Wilson 84 Main Street
Newfields, NH 03856-0322
Phone: 603-772-5009
Fax: 603-772-7028
Email: cmdwilson@comcast.net
![northeast_baitfish and patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/northeast_baitfish-and-patterns-150x150.jpg)
Title: Northeastern Baitfish ...and their patterns
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 47
Date: 1998
Publisher: Adventures in Angling
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Copies may be found by contacting Christine Wilson - Adventures in Angling
Attn: Christine D. Wilson 84 Main Street
Newfields, NH 03856-0322
Phone: 603-772-5009
Fax: 603-772-7028
Email: cmdwilson@comcast.net
![long_feathers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/long_feathers-150x150.gif)
Title: Long Feathers Long Flies
Author: Ken Thayer
Pages: 23
Date: 1997
Publisher: Dj's Paperworks
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Another rare book to find. It was limited to 200 copies numbered and signed. Bound with a comb binding and printed single sided. 71 patterns included. These originally sold for $10.00 but now copies will run you upwards of $80.00
![Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/Modern-Streamers-for-Trophy-Trout.jpg)
Title: Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout
Author: Bob Linsenman, Kelly Galloup
Pages: 172
Date: 1999
Publisher: Countryman Press
ISBN: 0881506729
ISBN-13: 978-0881506723
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![trolling flies for trout and salmon](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/trolling-flies-for-trout-and-salmon1-150x150.jpg)
Title: Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon
Author: Bob Leeman, Dick Stewart
Pages: 122 pages
Date: 1982 Softcover (1992 hardcover)
Publisher: Stephen Greene Press
ISBN: 093664401X
ISBN-13:978-0936644011
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/Streamer-fly-tying-and-fishing-130x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing (Revised Edition)
Author: Joseph D. Bates Jr., Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1995
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081171702X
ISBN-13: 9780811717021
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2010/12/streamer_flytying-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing
Author: Joseph D. Bates Jr., Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1966
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![streamer-fly-fishing-in-fre](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/streamer-fly-fishing-in-fre-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Fishing in Fresh and Salt Water
Author: Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 402
Date: 1950
Publisher: Van Nostrand
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![streamers and bucktails the big fish flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/streamers-and-bucktails-the-big-fish-flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamers and Bucktails - The Big Fish Flies
Author: Joseph D. Bates
Pages: 395
Date: 1979
Publisher: Knoph
ISBN: 0394415884
ISBN-13: 978-0394415888
Availibility: | Amazon | Albris
![Carrie Stevens Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/Carrie-Stevens-Maker-of-Rangeley-Favorite-Trout-and-Salmon-Flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Carrie Stevens: Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies
Author: Graydon R. Hilyard, Leslie K. Hilyard
Pages:162
Date: 2000
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811703533
ISBN-13:978-0811703536
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![secrets-of-streamer-fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/secrets-of-streamer-fishing.jpg)
Title: Secrets of Streamer Fishing
Author: Gene L. Letourneau
Pages: 19
Date: 1949
Publisher: Letourneau-Nichols
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
This is a tough book to get a hold of and copies can go for upwards of $100 if they can be found. There is a small selection of patterns found on the back page and a wealth of knowledge packed into this small booklet.
![minnows-of-north-america](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/minnows-of-north-america.jpg)
Title: Minnows of North America and Their Streamer Imitations
Author: George Leonard Herter
Pages: 104
Date: 1971
Publisher: Herter's, Inc
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![fulsher_thunder_creek](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/fulsher_thunder_creek-150x150.jpg)
Title:Tying and Fishing the Thunder Creek Series
Author: Keith Fulsher
Pages: 101
Date: 1973
Publisher: Freshet Press
ISBN: 0883950189
ISBN-13: 978-0883950180
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![thunder_creek](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/thunder_creek-150x150.jpg)
Title: Thunder Creek Flies: Tying and Fishing the Classic Baitfish Imitations
Author: Keith Fulsher, David Klausmeyer
Pages: 106
Date: 2006
Publisher: Stackpole
ISBN: 0811701719
ISBN-13: 978-0811701716
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![tying classic freshwater streamers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/tying-classic-freshwater-streamers-150x150.jpg)
Title: Tying Classic Freshwater Streamers: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide
Author: David Klausmeyer
Pages: 150
Date: 2004
Publisher: Countryman Press
ISBN: 088150596X
ISBN-13: 978-0881505962
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![tandemstreamers_cover](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/tandemstreamers_cover-150x150.jpg)
Title: Tandem streamers: 24 favorite eastern patterns
Author: Robert (Bob) Young
Pages: 7
Date: 1995
Publisher:
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Forgotten Flies](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/forgotten-flies-150x150.jpg)
Title: Forgotten Flies
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages:560
Date: 1999
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961034
ISBN-13:978-1886961036
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Vol 1](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/rare_unusual_1-150x150.jpg)
Title:Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A natural history
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages: 286
Date: 1994
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961018
ISBN-13:978-1886961012
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![Imacon Color Scanner](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/rare_unusual_2-150x150.jpg)
Title: Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History (Volume Two - Birds and Mammals) (Volume Two)
Author: Paul Schmookler, Ingrid V. Sils
Pages: 345
Date: 1997
Publisher: Complete Sportsman
ISBN: 1886961026
ISBN-13:978-1886961029
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon
![martinek_vol1](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/01/martinek_vol1.jpg)
Title: Streamer Fly Patterns for Trolling and Casting Volume 1
Author: Mike Martinek Jr.
Pages: 37
Date: 1993
Publisher: Mordax
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Title: Streamer Fly Patterns for Trolling and Casting Volume 2
Author: Mike Martinek Jr.
Pages: 50
Date: 1998
Publisher: Mordax
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Title: Eastern Streamers
Author: Dick Frost
Pages: 14
Date: 1979
Publisher: Heritage Printing Co.
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
This is quite a rare book to find. If you see a copy, grab it.
![Streamer fly fishing](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/Streamer-fly-fishing-150x150.jpg)
Title: Streamer-Fly Fishing: A Practical Guide to the Best Patterns and Methods
Author: John Merwin
Pages:
Date: 2001
Publisher:
ISBN: 1585740411
ISBN-13:978-1585740413
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![tandem_streamers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/tandem_streamers.jpg)
Title: Tandem Streamers
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 188
Date: 2011
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
ISBN: 157188467X
ISBN-13: 978-1571884671
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![smelt_patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/smelt_patterns.jpg)
Title: Smelt Fly Patterns: Dressings Tying Fishing
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 61
Date: 1996
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
ISBN: 1571880712
ISBN-13: 978-1571880710
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
![wilson_fly_patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/wilson_fly_patterns-150x150.jpg)
Title: Wilson Fly Patterns
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 40
Date: 2005
Publisher: Flyfishing University
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Copies may be found by contacting Christine Wilson - Adventures in Angling
Attn: Christine D. Wilson 84 Main Street
Newfields, NH 03856-0322
Phone: 603-772-5009
Fax: 603-772-7028
Email: cmdwilson@comcast.net
![northeast_baitfish and patterns](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/northeast_baitfish-and-patterns-150x150.jpg)
Title: Northeastern Baitfish ...and their patterns
Author: Donald A. Wilson
Pages: 47
Date: 1998
Publisher: Adventures in Angling
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Copies may be found by contacting Christine Wilson - Adventures in Angling
Attn: Christine D. Wilson 84 Main Street
Newfields, NH 03856-0322
Phone: 603-772-5009
Fax: 603-772-7028
Email: cmdwilson@comcast.net
![long_feathers](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/long_feathers-150x150.gif)
Title: Long Feathers Long Flies
Author: Ken Thayer
Pages: 23
Date: 1997
Publisher: Dj's Paperworks
ISBN:
ISBN-13:
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
Another rare book to find. It was limited to 200 copies numbered and signed. Bound with a comb binding and printed single sided. 71 patterns included. These originally sold for $10.00 but now copies will run you upwards of $80.00
![Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout](/sites/default/files/streamers/2011/12/Modern-Streamers-for-Trophy-Trout.jpg)
Title: Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout
Author: Bob Linsenman, Kelly Galloup
Pages: 172
Date: 1999
Publisher: Countryman Press
ISBN: 0881506729
ISBN-13: 978-0881506723
Availibility: Ebay | Amazon | Albris
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