Book one of the (planned) 20-book GB/JB fly-fishing series is inching closer to reality. Fishing the Film is totally written, and almost through the final edit. I have begun to plan out what I need to do with the required illustrations over the next few weeks. I’ve decided to go in a direction that takes [...]

If you ordered a Nature of Fly Casting book during the last week, your order has either already shipped or will at some point today (I’m heading out to look at some water, so they may be on tonight’s truck out of PDX). Depending on where you live, expect anywhere from 4-14 days transit time [...]

FF&W reader and fly tyer, Leng, recently sent me an email and asked about the Cross-Dresser fly design that I had in the Modern Midges book project. Specifically, Leng wanted to know about the wing and other aspects of the fly, since the photo in the book is from only one angle and there are [...]

Just a quick post to everyone who has ordered Nature of Fly Casting books up through and including Jan 29. All the books have shipped or are shipping as of today (Feb 1). Got a little behind due to the heavy initial response (thanks!), but am now caught up on shipping. Depending on where you live, [...]

I recently re-acquired all 315 remaining copies of my Nature of Fly Casting book. I sold through a small stack last week at two club events, and am making the last of the books available here on FF&W (for a special price, of course). All 320 pages of pedagogical fly-casting goodness are available to U.S.-based readers [...]

GB has now finished the initial writing of Reading Waters, the second book in our upcoming series. From the title I’m guessing that you can figure out what the book is about. We are editing book one (Fishing the Film) now, and we are also setting up the pricing structure, distribution, and other details for the series. My [...]

The GB/JB book series that I’ve been talking about here at FF&W continues to move ahead. GB and I finally decided on a trim size (7″X10″), and I finally got the layout and font choices figured out (we hope). While it’s not exactly a thrilling bit of news, GB and I want to keep interested [...]

The old boy is fast if anything, that’s for sure. The first book in our upcoming GB/JB educational series has been uploaded to our shared FTP server. Granted, we’ll have to edit, polish, illustrate and layout before printing, boxing, warehousing and (hopefully) selling, but all 70,000(!) words are in their initial places. GB and I are [...]

Those three little words may seem like nonsensical Latin (or at least chunks of Latin), but they have special meaning to the publishing world. They are the start of a project, filler text used to approximate the real thing, until the real thing can be placed. I recently flowed the famed lorem ipsum sequence onto [...]

GB is here in the Pacific Northwest right now, and is furiously typing away on his PowerBook. What is he typing, you ask? The start of a new book series that the two of us are collaborating on, that’s what. We have plans…big plans (insert megalomaniacal laughter here). Actually, the plan right now is, “We’d better [...]

I forgot to mention that I made a couple of small contributions (emphasis on the “small” part) to this project: a fly pattern (the Cross Dresser) and a short techniques piece. Authors Rick Takahashi and Jerry Hubka put some serious effort into this book (with tyers from all over the world contributing), and the finished product [...]

Just giving this a bump back up the post list… Looking for one of these? Amazon has them on-sale for $19.95 (cheap!) (plus the usual shipping fees, etc.). If you’ve always wanted one of your very own, now is the time. Imagine the look on your face when you unwrap the package and see that [...]