After the the success of the film "A River Runs Through It" (an adaptation of an excellent book which I've read many times) a profusion of fly fishing books, fiction and non-, appeared and reappeared and I've read many of them. There is one type though I would never reread, these were among the most popular and they typically involved self-deprecating humor and silly situations which often seemed disingenuous because these guys (I don't remember any female authors being guilty of this) have reputations as competent anglers. I'd catch myself yelling at the page "Mark Twain did this stuff better a century ago, so move on". I won't name names because there is some good stuff to be had there and I'd rather dwell on the writers that I constantly reread like Roderick Haig-Brown and Tom Mcguane.