Friend, and fellow casting instructor, Matt Paluch, recently acquired the Deschutes River Camp property and fly shop on Oregon’s famed Deschutes River. He has asked me to come over and do a series of casting clinics for his grand re-opening on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23. I’ll be doing two, four-hour clinics on [...]

I had so many requests for size XL in this tee that I sold out in a few days. The re-order was placed last week and should be here shortly. As a result, I have left the XL size showing as available on the order page. If you are interested in that size, you can [...]

I’ve got six new trout portraits available for purchase. All of these images will be appearing in some form in the upcoming book, Reading Waters. They are offered either “as-is” in pen or pencil (see details of each image), or with watercolor for a $20 up-charge per image. Add $5 for shipping outside the U.S. Payment [...]

Yes, the new FF&W tees (Brown #1) are now available. You can see what they look like up above and here’s the rest of the info: The 100-percent cotton, unisex, “Pool Blue” tee is sewn in America (by American Apparel) and printed right here in Portland, Oregon. As a result, the shirts aren’t cheap, but [...]

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I am going to be offering more art and illustration for sale here on FF&W (“more” meaning beyond the weekly DF52 work). The piece for this week is an older oil that I did called “Gibraltar Sockeye.” Some FF&W readers may have already seen this piece here [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been getting a jump on spring with a little cleaning of my gear closet. I have a pile of gear, some of which has sat unused for a while, or has simply been replaced by other gear over the last year or two. Rather than just toss it all up on eBay, I figured [...]

Got a couple of emails asking if I was going to start doing some other art for sale (other than just the DF52 stuff), like the big brown trout portrait that came from Reading Waters (and the new FF&W Tee). Yes I am, starting now. The first piece up is that brown. It is on vellum, [...]

So what do you think? Is this the next FF&W tee? Update: Yes. Coming soon!

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 [...]

Rather than wait until year’s end to make the Drawing Fish 52 art available, I’m going to do it on an as-we-go basis. If you are interested in a piece, please contact me directly using the Contact JB link above, or send an email to jason(at)fishfliesandwater(dot)com. Available Drawing Fish 52 (2011) art (in reverse chronological order): [...]

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 [...]

While some 2010 Drawing Flies 52 art has already been purchased (and some pieces are not suitable or possible to offer as originals), there are a few pieces remaining that I am presenting here. If you are interested in a piece, please contact me directly using the Contact JB link above, or send an email [...]

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). [...]