When I lived in New York City, I always found solace in fly fishing for trout in the Catskills, mostly on the Beaverkill River.
A New York bookstore was another place to find solace. My favorites were Scribner’s, Rizzoli, Shakespeare, Strand, Coliseum, Barnes and Noble and McGraw-Hill. I always looked for fishing books. After baseball, fishing seemed to produce the most titles. Over the years, I accumulated many. Here are a couple of them:
Good Fishing Close to New York City: A Guide to the Great Close-To-Home Angling of the Metropolitan Region (Good Fishing to New York Ser.)
● Open Season
● French Fishing Flies
● Fishing Idaho, An Angler’s Guide
● Art Flick’s New Streamside Guide
● Matching the Hatch
● Vermont River: The Classic Portrait of a Man and His River
● The River Why
● 21 Great New Zealand Trout Waters (Fly Fishing International)
● Fear of Fly-Fishing
● Neversink: One Angler’s Intense Exploration of a Trout River
● Fishless Days, Angling Nights
● Every Angler’s Guide to Amazing Lures and Flies: Rare and Forgotten Masterpieces of Fishing
● The Complete Book of Fly Tying
● Trout Strategies
● Fishing Came First
● Trout on a Fly
● Higher Elevations: Stories From the West
● New Zealand’s Top Trout Fishing Waters
When I lived in New York City, I always found solace in fly fishing for trout in the Catskills, mostly on the Beaverkill River.