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 [...]

I actually blogged about Gaylord and his work a few years ago—before I decided to do a major blog upgrade and killed my old database. Since that time Gaylord has been working on a variety of projects, but his mayfly art is still available (as is his beautiful book, Mayflies of the Driftless Region). If [...]

I was going to post a shot of the book sitting on a table or something equally as exciting, but then this little pic of GB popped up. He’s either trying to look pleased with how it all turned out, or he hates it and he’s just trying to laugh off the money he spent [...]

192 pages; 7X10 inches; color cover with black text After yesterday’s issues, let’s try this again…. Fishing the Film is now available for pre-order, with the first books arriving sometime shortly after October 22. The “Series Pass” for the entire 20-book series (of which Fishing the Film is the first title) has already been covered. [...]

Had a little snag there (as in no one could order on-line, not even me). Until that gets fixed properly (hoping it’s just a day for the fulfillment center to fix things), I’m pulling that post. I’ll re-post once I know that things are running more like they should. Apologies to those readers who tried [...]

192 pages; 7X10 inches; color cover with black text FIshing the Film is due out shortly after October 22, and GB and I have arranged a special offer for our respective readers. For those who have faith in us delivering a solid series of 20 books over the next 5 years or so (due to [...]

Yes, it’s gone. 157MB of files off to the press this morning. And with that, I’m going fishing…

This is the last week to order a copy of the first edition of  Nature of Fly Casting directly from me. After September 1, 2010, the book will no longer be available through FF&W (though there will still be some copies lurking out there on Amazon and in shops and so forth). The book will not [...]

It’s getting closer! The TOC (Table of Contents) and Index are formatted, and are just awaiting two final proof reads and I can lock in the numbers. Looks like we squeaked it all into 188 pages, with 4 pages left over (for a total of 192). Those other four pages at the end will be [...]