“Instinctive Fly Fishing is packed with friendly, practical advice for improving all aspects of your fishing game—including your attitude.”
—Paul Guernsey, former Editor-in-Chief, Fly Rod and Reel

“Move over Ray Bergman, Charley Brooks, John Gierach, here comes Taylor Streit upriver waggling his literary fly rod with the best of them in a wonderful, easy-going, and easy-reading book that is sure to find an honored place among the classics . . . Anybody who reads this book can’t fail to discover joy on any river . . . and catch plenty of fish to boot.”

—John Nichols

“Shrewd and wise perceptions on how all fly fishers can achieve a state of skill we all seek.”

—Nick Lyons

“Move[s] anglers beyond the wives’ tales and popular presumptions of modern fly fishing to a more intuitive and natural approach. . . . It does what it does extremely well: making most readers want to throw off the hair suit of science and bad advice and go catch fish.”

—Marshall Cutchin, publisher of Midcurrent


“Every fly fisherman should read this book more than once!”

—A. K. Best

“This is a catalog of useful information for fly fishers.”

—John Gierach

“Taylor Streit is a natural born fly fisherman, guide, and teacher. Instinctive Fly Fishing is all about how less clutter in your fly fishing game means more productive fishing. It’s a book every serious fly fisher should read.”

—Ed Engle