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The Literature of Fly Fishing

This guide was created to accompany the class session on researching the literature of fly fishing for Professor Orlock's SAGES seminar

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Online bibliographies and ebooks

This is a rare case in which I recommend a Wikipedia page!

Specifically, the Wikipedia page Bibliography of Fly Fishing books is a good one to find books on specific topics and from specific time periods.

For those books that were published before 1924 and are out of copyright, links are provided to the online full text.  For newer books, search for the titles in OhioLINK to borrow them from other libraries if we do not own them.

Another excellent bibliography is available from the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University and their Reed Draper Collection of Angling Books.

Online e-book collections

While the list mentioned above does a great job of providing access to books on fly fishing, sometimes one needs to search for oneself!

There are several online collections that can be useful in this case.

OhioLINK E-Book Center- a collection of tens of thousands of full textbooks, primarily reference and academic titles.

Google Book Search- full-text books limited to only those published before 1923 (out of copyright) as well as "preview" content of newer books.

Internet Archive- a warehouse of many different kinds of media, but their e-book collection has many titles of use, again, primarily for those materials that are out of copyright.

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