Books by Dave Ames

Dances With Sharks

Fly-fishing winds like an interactive time machine through the pages of this book, taking you on a 340 million year journey from Carboniferous mayflies the size of canaries to contemporary Mexico where the descendents of Mayan jaguar priests learn to be bonefishing guides.

"I can tell you straight up, without flinching, that one of the reasons I like to read Dave Ames is because he makes me feel young again. And I am not a young man."

Larmar Underwood, former editor of Sports Afield.

A Good Life Wasted or Twenty Years as a Fishing Guide

Although Ames calls himself a fishing guide, it is his capacity as a guru that keeps his lines taut, his stories untangled. It is his ability to see the humor as well as the intent of nature that charms and beguiles….Because if we can’t spend twenty years as a fishing guide, we can at least spend a few days in (his) competent hands, like a trout he’s handled and let slip back into the current.

"Big Sky Journal"

Moving, thought-provoking, sometimes powerful and always entertaining, this is an important and welcome addition to the literary side of the angler’s world.

"Library Journal"

True Love and the Woolly Bugger

True Love and the Woolly Bugger is a thoroughly amusing, manic, and perversely informative book about fishing in several of its most mutant forms.

Tom McGuane

Dave Ames writes from a soul that, like Gaul, may be in three parts. Blended with Zane Grey and O. Henry is a deep vein of the guy that wrote “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Fred Banneroft, Angler’s Club of New York