You have been exiled to a deserted island for a month. You can only bring 2 books with you, and they must be about fishing, what would your choices be???

1) "Advanced steelhead flyfishing" by Deke Meyer.

2) "Steelhead Drift Fishing" by Bill Herzog.

for the following reasons:

a) They're about steelhead.
b) They're long reads(especially Meyer's)
c) They're good reads.
d) Lots of good quality color pictures.
e) They're good to re-read.

Footnote: If the wife isn't co-stranded then item #1 or #2 could quite easily be replaced with Playboy!

Moby **** and the book I just finished The Perfect Storm.

Since I was a fishing nut way before I could ever drive and nobody else in my familty really fished, I read and read and read.
Its hard to pick to books.
But if I must I would have to say The Year of the Angler and Steelhead Water.
The Year of the Angler because Steve Raymond is an amazing author, the most underrated author in fishing and Steelhead Water because it applies to my home waters and it hooked me on flyfishing for steelhead. There are some chapters of Steelhead Water Ive read over and over and over again. It truly is a great read.
Steelhead Flyfishing is awesome too, the amount of information that is in that book is incredible so is Deke Meyer's and Steelhead Drift Fishing. Anybody who wants to fish for steelhead, Steelhead Driftfishing by Herzog is a MUST.
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Ryan

Great choices!! Swami, I also picked Moby**** as one of my choices 1930 Random House edition, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. My other choice would be CRUNCH and DES: Classic stories of saltwater fishing by Philip Wylie. Both long, and very rereadable hardbacks. Sorry Eric W., you can't bring your wife, and magazines don't count, check out Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat.

Dan O, I would choose The Old Man in the Sea by Hemingway, and Fishermans Summer by Roderick Haig Brown

How to catch fish on desert islands By Gilligan and the skipper, and 1000 coconut recipes by Maryanne.

lol--corky!

Really, I'd take Sparse Grey Hackle's "Fishless Days, Angling Nights" and an anthology entitled "The Armchair Angler" (ed by Terry Brykczynski) over all my other books, even over Herzog and Combs...angling is, after all, one of life's paths, and not just a mechanical "sport"...

The Fishekisser has changed my mind! Subing for The Old Man in the Sea is the Arm Chair Angler how did I let that "Gem" slip my mind at my age I should be used to things slipping my mind. The dust jacket has a big marlin jumping and spinning around which is pleasing to look at. There are at least articles and storys by no less tha 50 different authors the likes of Norman Maclean, Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Robert Traver and Ray Bergman on steelhead and the ones that got away.

If you like the Perfect Storm, try the Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw. She was the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the ship that went down. She's a fisher...and a good storyteller. Also brings conclusion to some things in Junger's book.

Hey, you Moby **** readers! Have you noticed that all of the recent editions omit the author's footnotes? Those footnotes added very much to the fascination of the book for me. My favorite was the Scribner's edition (of 1946, I think) with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

1. David James Duncann's "The river why"
2.Advanced Steelie fishing..d.meyer with Herzogs drift fishing for steelhead glued between the cover. ( great pictures...)

1. David James Duncann's "The river why"
2.Advanced Steelie fishing..d.meyer with Herzogs drift fishing for steelhead glued between the cover. ( great pictures...)

I forgot......does this island have steelhead streams?

"The River Why" and "The Old Man and the Sea"

Moby ****? A-a-w, come on now.

Corky- You really busted me up. I'm still laughing !!!!I like to read a chapter of Steelhead fly fishing by Trey Coombs when I need a fishing fix and can't get out. And Deke Meyers book is also great.

It's great to see that so many others appreciate good books!! Sorry Corky,1000 recipies by Maryanne, is NOT a fishing book! Guess you"re stuck with Gilligian's book. Bet it"s not a threehour read-a three hour read. Steelhead Addict,yes the island has steelhead streams, self-sustaining hatchery stock, [skamania strain], single barbless hooks, no bait, 1 a day limit, for personal consumption. Current Drifter, if you like those books, check out Fish the Strong Waters by N.C. McDonald, and The Forty Fathom Bank by Les Galloway. B-Run Steely, like your choices!, check out anything written by Ted Leeson, or Bob Arnold. gotta go, check in later,read on brothers and sisters, unplug that tv!!!

How about some steely stories form Ted Trueblood. Now that's going back a long time.

Currentdrifter I'm going to pick that one up. There is so many good books out. So little time to read them, thanks all for the info.

Native Son, guess I should have given more thought to all the great anthologies out there. Here's a few I really enjoy: The One That Got Away by Greenberg and Waugh: Fireside Book of Fishing by Raymond L. Camp: Treasury of Fishing Stories, by Charles Goodspeed: Uncommon Waters by Holly Morris.