Trout: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 1996)
Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship(Morrow, 1997)
The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton (HarperCollins, 1998)
Early Love and Book Trout (Lyons Press, 2000)
Fly-Fishing the 41st Parallel (HarperCollins, 2003)
Trout of the World (Stewart Tabori and Chang, 2003)
A Good Day’s Fishing (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
The Day My Mother Left (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Bird, Butterfly, Eel (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Eels: An Exploration from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish (HaperCollins, 2010)
Ocean Fishes (Rizzoli 2012)