No fish, no drama, just a single frame that Kelley took of me one day on Montana’s DePuy Spring Creek a few years ago. It’s really just a snapshot, with no premeditated anything going on, but what it displays just speaks to me rather strongly about my fishing and my life. I’ve fished the spring creeks [...]

Another all-digital “flag fish” as with the striped bass and the Yellowstone cutthroat. Feeling more comfortable with the process to create this style of illustration in a few minutes, so had more time to add some extra visual texture. I didn’t go so much for conservation symbolism with this one as I did an image [...]

Was out on the Willamette near Portland yesterday evening with my friend, Matt Klara, sussing out some smallmouth bass water. We found fish. We even caught fish, including a rather nicely sized bass that chomped a little sili-leg crayfish that I was tossing. We also turned some heads on the river by using a drift [...]

For those following the weekly Drawing Fish 52 (DF52) project this year, I thought that I’d do a little look back this week at what was happening last year at this same time. The DF52 project in 2010 was Drawing Flies, and the fly from week 29 (corresponding with the muskellunge this year) was a [...]

You see some cool stuff fishing…. Sort of the opposite of this.

As some of you know, I don’t tend to blog a lot about my actual fishing in “real time.” Fishing is often a rather personal affair for me, and I typically use fishing events to later enhance “how-to” pieces and so forth some time after the fact. This week, though, I wanted to do an [...]

Drawing Fish 52 muskellunge. The “official” fish of my home state, Wisconsin. I decided to honor both the fish and the state by integrating each into the other. Muskellunge, if you have never caught one on a fly, are a fierce quarry worth the time and effort (think freshwater barracuda). Like moose, “muskellunge” works for [...]

Yes, late, and it’s a long story, but here it is. Not what you were expecting, perhaps? This is along the lines of the Yellowstone cutthroat “flag” that I did. I figure that the striped bass also deserves a conservation flag, just like the cutthroat. This is perhaps less flag than pure image, but the [...]

A nice brookie from Polar Bear Provincial Park. 1-2-3-lift (and don’t forget to look at the camera next time).

While posting re-formatted excerpts of a book is nice, it is sometimes nicer to actually see what the inside of a book really looks like. I figure that anyone interested in the “Fly Fishing” series should at least see a sample of the “guts” of one of the titles. With that in mind, below is [...]

As I posted last week, I’m going to be doing two casting clinics at the 12th Annual Metolius River Flyfishing and Bamboo Rod Fair in Camp Sherman, Oregon, July 16-17 (near the greater Bend/Sisters area). The Saturday clinic is now full, but the Sunday clinic still has spots. The clinic runs 730a – 930a, with a max of [...]

Drawing Fish 52 sockeye salmon. One of my absolute favorite fish to paint. The gnarled shape and brilliant colors of this fish make it a natural for a portrait. Notes: Like the grayling and leopard rainbow before, this sockeye started as a photo, but the process I used was different than the prior two fish. [...]

Got a review CD in the mail recently from my friends over at Jazz & Fly Fishing. It’s their new release, “Slow Walking Water.” Already have it ripped into iTunes and have also played through the physical CD a couple of times. I’m narrowing down my favorite tracks, but “Parmacheene Belle” was a good companion [...]

My nephew, Alex, is now officially a fisherman. His first fish is proudly displayed above. A nice Wisconsin panfish and a great way to start (I wonder how many kids and panfish have been put together over the years). From what I hear, Alex is now “hooked” (sorry, but I am required by general angling [...]