Sweet fly, huh? This one’s not part of the giveaway package. Sorry. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  From: The “Thinly Veiled Advertisement” Department To: FF&W Readers Subject: FF&W E-List Giveaway April 16, 2009 – FF&W is planning on sending out its first E-List mailing on April 30. In addition to the veritable horde of exciting and glamorous information, [...]

Once in a Blue Moon 60sec promo from Bumcast on Vimeo. Just this 60 second teaser makes me miss N.Z. is a bad way. It has been far too long since I wet a line in those waters and watched a big South Island brown consider my offering.  I am eager to see the places [...]

Since I’m in a flashback mood, I thought that a little art from the way-back (well, 1995) might be appropriate, too. Enter 37N 105W in Google Maps and you’ll be almost at this fish’s homewaters (and trust me, this location cannot be considered “hotspotting”). This brown had such a memorable face (and size) that it [...]

I originally wrote this for the Federation of Fly Fishers’ newsletter, “The Loop.” Figured it couldn’t hurt to post it here, too. – – – – – – – – – - In the U.S. leader and tippet material diameters are typically measured in thousandths of an inch, with tippets also given an additional “X” [...]

In 2007, I wrote a brief piece looking back at the production of A River Runs Through It (watch It on-line). It was the 15th anniversary of the film’s release and I guess I was feeling a bit nostalgic. Anyway, the Trout Underground linked to it, and a bunch of traffic flowed to my (then) [...]

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] While a link to this DVD already appears over in the sidebar, I thought that I would eat some bandwidth and post a short QuickTime clip—slightly modified—from the video. If you happen to be looking for the new-wave in [...]

Scanout is a new “new media” mag with an eye towards the fly (although not fly-fishing exclusive). It’s short, but sweet, with a modern layout (love that close-up shot on “page 3″ of issue #3.09). Check it out…

Okay, this little piece is something that I wrote for a fly-show booklet this last winter. I had enough space for 300 words and a photo. That’s not a lot of room in which to describe the double haul. In fact, once I got into it, I began to view the article as an exercise, [...]

With the unseasonably warm weather here, I got to thinking about a few of my favorite places to spend a mid-summer’s day fishing. Among them are the lakes of Vermejo Ranch in northern New Mexico, one of my long-time favorite stillwater haunts. The last time Kel and I were there, it was mid-July, but the [...]

(A bit of casting/line handling skill for the upcoming (northern hemisphere) season). Triple Shooting is a name used to describe a sequence of three shooting-line skills made consecutively as a cast progresses. As a whole, Triple Shooting consists of Slip Shooting, Back Shooting and Front Shooting. Triple Shooting allows line to be lengthened rapidly and can [...]

After the recent FishFace Radio interview, I got a couple of questions about the infamous Slide-Ball Slider and Tarpon Cay. Since YouTube has the vid (in fancy new player colors now), I thought I’d let the TC video speak for itself: Update: A sample of the fly in question, up close and obvious:

Since FF&W seems to be radio-focused this week, I thought that I’d toss up a few links to Web-based radio programs that I’ve been involved with over the last couple of years. While I realize that some readers have already been there, done that (via the sidebar links), I figure that it never hurts to [...]