Books & Gifts

Bob Romano’s newest book Return to Rangeley features many favorite characters from previous novels and adds two young veterans trying to find "True...

In his fourth book, I'll Be Home for Dinner Unless There's a Hatch, Lou pulls back the curtain on a life lived in waders and words. With warmth, wi...

What defines a small stream? For Dave Hughes, it's not size but "that sense of intimacy" you get when you can observe the whole stream and "feel th...

Maine offers some of the most diverse angling opportunities in the nation. Depending on the season, or your fishing preference, you can canoe a rem...

We've had great comprehensive books on fly fishing before, but this one is excellent because it is concise.  It has the info you need to start fly...

Almost 300 pages of illustrations, photos, tons of information, and some memoir thrown in.  A wonderful new book by Leighton Wass "When we are in t...

This is an all-new color edition of a popular reference and introduction of aquatic insects at the simplest level. There is no Latin and the classi...

Reprinted on its 70th anniversary this is one of Brett's and Sue's favorite books.  It recounts Geagan's attempt to leave the conventional life his...

Bob Romano’s recent book River Flowers is a collection of short stories and fishing tales set in the North Woods of Maine where Romano spends much ...

Newly updated set of cards perfect for writing your fly fishing and tying friends, this set of five notecards with envelopes features the watercolo...

Burton Spiller's Grouse Feathers is possibly the best known book of all time on grouse hunting. The spirit and passion with which he writes i...

This is the best map for this area. Updated June 2023, this map has the Rangeley area on one side and the Flagstaff Lake Region on the other. It's ...

"...let me introduce an idea - just something to kick around: Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can cat...

  Carroll caught his very first brook trout at the tender age of ten. He always maintained  from the moment that 10-inch brook trout ...

In this intriguing look at his many hours at the tying bench, popular author John Gierach focuses on the trout flies he has found most successful a...

Carrie Stevens (1882-1970) of Upper Dam, Maine, created some of the most beautiful and enduring streamer patterns ever, including the legendary Gra...

Black Ghosts and Art in a Maine Guide’s Wilderness by Graydon and Leslie Hilyard Herbert Welch, the inventor of the still very popular streamer pat...

The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) has captured the fascination of anglers for centuries, and some flyfishers devote lifetimes in pursuit of w...

by Lou Zambello                   Updated for 2023 .  This completely new flyfishing guide to New England is the best flyfishing guide ever on thi...

In this updated 2nd edition how-to book, long-time fishing guide, Lou Zambello relates years of flyfishing and guiding experience about the gloriou...

     In Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs and Hermit Bill, wildlife biologist Ron Joseph recounts his youth in central Maine, the importance of his family's ...

When world-class fly fishing is the centerpiece, but not the whole vacation! From historic Grayling, Manchester, and Rangeley; to modern Ashevil...

Brook trout are native in the Eastern United States and were the most important fly rod gamefish for early anglers, until they were supplanted by n...

Learn the mysteries of the Carrie Stevens method of making Rangeley-style streamers-one of the most enduring, effective, and beautiful baitfish imi...