Merry Christmas to all from Kel (the beautiful girl with the large rainbow) and me (the other person with the embarrassing slightly less large trout).

There is still one day until Christmas, and if you’re looking for a unique gift to get someone, check out the book that Jeff Kennedy at Drawing Flies 365 has to offer (or just buy it anyway, good books are always worth having). Jeff and I have also been talking behind the scenes, and we have [...]

Yes, there really will be one coming soon. They take some effort to create, and I’ve gotten about three weeks further behind than I’d hoped on the next mailing (seems that I say that about every mailing, doesn’t it?), The next mailing will have a streamer-fishing focus, along with the usual “free stuff” give-away. It [...]

Just FYI—Doing two major upgrades to the blog over the weekend (as I have the time): WordPress version update *and* the code behind the blog theme. Hopefully there will be no more than a few minutes downtime (you’ll know it when you see it), and then away we go, all security-patched and PHP updated…

The 100th Post Contest has a winner (Bill H.) who will soon be enjoying the A River Runs Through It soundtrack via iTunes. Bill’s name was randomly drawn from all of the correct answers to the question of “Name the river on which the ‘Shadow Cast’ scene was shot.” The correct answer is the “Gallatin [...]

Yes, the milestone* has arrived! The 100th post of the (new) FF&W [blog] has been reached. Naturally, we at FF&W are so thrilled by this that we have to give something away. How about the A River Runs Through It soundtrack via iTunes? If you want a shot at it, you have to answer a [...]

The current info-void here at FF&W will filled soon! There will be some nice freebies for the E-List, and I’m heading to Missoula today for the Fly Casting Institute Clinic (July session), as well as five extra days of fishing, hiking and camping. And speaking of the FCI, we are “go” for an August 21-23 [...]

I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in Missoula. Yes, I’d rather be fishing, but it has been a week-and-change since I last updated FF&W, and at some point one has to eat, too. Spent the day in Hamilton, doing a “Taste of the FCI“ hosted at the brand spankin’ new Marcus Daly Hospital Rehab Center. [...]

One of the good things about a blog is the constant stream of updates. One of the bad things about a blog is the constant stream of updates. On a blog with regular posts it is easy to get way behind in no time. Here at FF&W, a fair number of posts are educational material [...]

After some thought (and a few hours of work), I have switched FF&W’s E-List management software. The new stuff is better for what I want to do with the FF&W E-List and is more friendly to my system environment. That means better e-mails for list members (and hopefully better rendering for those on mobile devices, [...]

Okay, so I might miss that self-imposed April 30 E-list deadline by a day or so… I really am working on it, but I have to get used to the layout template before making the thing final. Sorry for the delay with the mailing, but the contest winner will still be drawn as promised. Keep [...]

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, [...]