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 [...]

If you still want a copy of Nature of Fly Casting, you’ve got until September 1, 2010, to order. After that date (assuming that I don’t run out of copies before then), the book will no longer be available from me (though there will likely still be a few copies lurking out there in shops [...]

Just a quick note if you have ordered a Nature of Fly Casting book and have not yet received an e-invoice for it. All orders that I have received have been invoiced via PayPal’s system, which allows for payment with a major credit card or PayPal account. If your e-mail system has a highly aggressive [...]

At last, the final few drawings for Fishing the Film should be done today. I have been inserting the drawings into layout as I go (and doing captions at the same time), so that means that the book should be ready to go to the printers within a week or so. That pleases me to [...]

Drawing Flies 52 Leadwing Coachman. This pattern caught my father his first trout back in the day (when GB was 11). A lot happened after that! Actually the Leadwing Coachman features prominently in the first story in the upcoming Fishing the Film book, and is the second illustration in Chapter One. I drew several Leadwings [...]

Yep, it’s late. We had to chop out about two dozen pages, and adjust content as a result. Once we got there, and I got my final marching orders on drawings (which I was behind on by at least four weeks anyway), we decided to just re-set the release date to end of summer. We [...]