GB’s second book in the “Fly Fishing” series, Reading Waters, is planned to be available in time for Father’s Day orders (I’m polishing the index right now). In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from the text. This is basically the first few paragraphs from page one of Chapter One. Hope you like it. Waters have always [...]

Hard to believe this shot of me was taken in Tasmania some 15+ years ago. What happened to the time? It feels like my angling life is rushing by and I’ve become strangely disconnected from some of the places that I know and love. 15 years?! How can that be? Well, in any case, it’s [...]

Almost have the illustrations and layout for Reading Waters finished. Plowed through a few of the larger drawings last night, including four brown trout (all caught by GB in one location—have to read the book to get the story). Thought that they would make for a nice bit of visual enhancement here. While they are [...]

Yes, a trophy horned chub for your viewing pleasure. This magnificent specimen was extracted from Pennsylvania’s Little Sandy River some years ago by none other than GB.  My ink-on-vellum rendering appears in a story in the upcoming Reading Waters book, but it is “special” enough that I felt that I needed to share it here. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A gold star to anyone who can ID that piece of water on the cover. So, I’m through the big edit of Reading Waters, and thought that I’d toss the chapter list out here on the blog. It should give an idea of the scope of the text. In that vein, some people have asked [...]

Guess that GB got a bunch of requests for signed copies of Fishing the Film. As such, he’s decided to offer the book, signed and personalized, on his eBay store. The price includes shipping (international customers will need to check out any additional ship costs). Don’t know how long he’ll keep the book up there, but [...]

An FF&W reader (that’s you, Robert) made a mention in a comment about a “gator-snouted brown.” Well, here’s one for you. This is actually the first fish head I did for the new Reading Waters book in the 20-book “Fly Fishing” series. This fish is in Chapter Two, so for those of you interested in [...]

For those of you who have a copy of the book, Designing Trout Flies, you’ll likely recognize this illustration (see page 25). What’s a bit different is the collection of numbers (corresponding to pencils) and colors. The notes were part of my artistic preparation for working on the “presentation” edition of the book. That edition [...]

GB has been busy lately. He’s managed to finish all of the text for book #2 in the Fly Fishing series: Reading Waters, and is onto Long Flies. All of the photos for Reading Waters have also been scanned (at least the first pass), and I’m into the edit with a box of red pens. GB [...]

Here are a few stories excerpted from the end of Chapter Three in Fishing the Film. To put them in context, these follow GB’s discussion of the Dry and Dropper tactic. I have few other dropper-fly stories of my own, and they may appear in another book. Hope you find these enjoyable (and perhaps even [...]

So, the 2010 DF52 project is in its final two weeks. Hard to believe that a year is almost gone. Sometime between now and Jan 1, Jeff and I will decide on what we’re going to do in 2011 (I think that a book is likely on the list, but I don’t know what else). [...]

Just in time for the holidays (what a fine cliché), we have made some revisions to the cost structure of the “Series Pass” for the 20-book “Fly Fishing” series. The US price remains the same ($479), but Canada drops to $559 (save $120) and International drops to $719 (save $160). In additional, GB will now [...]