I recently upgraded WordPress (the software that runs this site) and it appears that some settings got changed in the process. If you’ve tried to leave a comment and subsequently been asked to login as a user, you know what I mean. Should be fixed now. I’ll check through the other settings to be sure [...]

This one is a slice from the recent FF&W E-List mailing, and is also straight from the next version of my Nature of Fly Casting book (and not yet edited). Makes for a decent (if brief) lead-in piece to the “Heathier Cast” post/page. Here goes…. If you’re going to be doing some serious casting during a [...]

I’ve got six new trout portraits available for purchase. All of these images will be appearing in some form in the upcoming book, Reading Waters. They are offered either “as-is” in pen or pencil (see details of each image), or with watercolor for a $20 up-charge per image. Add $5 for shipping outside the U.S. Payment [...]

Drawing Fish 52 lake trout. A good choice for this week, I think, given the on-going issues and discussions concerning the lake trout problem in Yellowstone. Notes: Went with a style that I’ve been employing for a few of the 30-minute fish. Fast and open, but it still has a sense of detail that is [...]

Yes, the new FF&W tees (Brown #1) are now available. You can see what they look like up above and here’s the rest of the info: The 100-percent cotton, unisex, “Pool Blue” tee is sewn in America (by American Apparel) and printed right here in Portland, Oregon. As a result, the shirts aren’t cheap, but [...]

If you’re signed up for the FF&W E-List, check you inbox. The latest mailing was scheduled to go out at 12:00pm Pacific Time today. I hope that you enjoy the mailing, and thanks to everyone who is an E-List member. Update: Looking at 5 bounces immediately, up from 1 last time. That means that 5 [...]

This morning, I finished up the photo/illustration layout for Chapter Three of Reading Waters. In one spot, GB dictated the use of one of my 1990s-vintage photos of Costilla #1 creek on the Vermejo Ranch property. It is a photo pulled from a series of images that I made one morning when the light simply forced [...]

“DF52 Yamame” For Japan this day Peaceful mountain trout drawing My small gift to you.

Continuing the FF&W Art Archive series with another image from the book, Designing Trout Flies. This one is from page 45. The collection of numbers correspond to colored pencils that I used for the “presentation” edition of the book. That edition was quite a beauty: handmade wood boxes (with burled panels), leather covers, all of the [...]

Just wanted to say “thanks” to all of those who attended my demos and seminars at last weekend’s NW Expo and Casting Instructor Continuing Ed day. It was great to see a packed casting pond, even for a whopping 25-minute demo, and the casting seminar and continuing ed clinic were both full (although I think [...]

Woke up to a phone call about a west-coast tsunami warning this morning, and saw what’s been going on in Japan. Caught some unnerving and tragic video of the quake aftermath followed by the tsunami as it spread inland. I sent an email to a friend in Japan who lives a ways south of the [...]

Drawing Fish 52 peacock bass. Another beautiful fish that really deserves to be focused on for more than 30 minutes. It’s name definitely is deserved, as is its sporting reputation. Notes: More later, but I did use all 30 minutes to the end (had to re-work some stuff that just wasn’t coming along properly). Trying [...]

Now that’s a storm. Somewhere west of Mt. Vernon, South Dakota with an approaching supercell. Having moved from the Upper Great Lakes region to the Pacific Northwest, I’ve had to adjust my expectations of what the word “storm” actually means. For example, right now, we are experiencing a series of “storms” here in the Portland [...]

Other than the fact that I’m taller now, and rarely wear green pants, there isn’t much difference between this shot from 1975 and some I took recently. This is from the first year that father did fly-fishing schools on the Vermejo Ranch property in northern New Mexico. GB was a newly-minted director in the then [...]