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LF Finally Finished! (Plus the Friday Fish Fry)

JB — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:30:23 +0000

It is done, approved and away from me at last. Yes, Long Flies (LF for short) is soon to be appearing in person at a fly shop, cataloger, internet site, or even a mailbox (if you are a Series Pass holder) near you. This thing took seemingly forever to complete, and as such, I’ll be into [...]

Friday Fish Fry – Upper Varzina Brown

JB — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:36:34 +0000

From years back, on a trip to Russia’s Kola Peninsula. One of many browns that nudged the measuring tape well past the 20-inch mark. Went for a bit of funky photo filtering on this one, just because I felt like it. This was one of the last trips on which I used slide film as [...]

Blackberry Slideshow (November 2011)

JB — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:07:02 +0000

As some of you know, I was back at Blackberry Farm over this last weekend. I always greatly enjoy my time at Blackberry, even when I’m working in support of an event (as I was this trip). While there was much more going at Blackberry than just some fishing—including flat-out fantastic (and up-close-and-personal) concerts with [...]

Back at Blackberry

JB — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:27:51 +0000

Have to run, but a quick post of where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. More to follow when I can get some WiFi time….

Friday Fish Fry – Sutton River Brookie

JB — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:07:16 +0000

With this week’s talk of big brook trout, I figured that a big brookie would be in order today. This is a Sutton River (Canada) fish caught by a much younger me. This fish was hardly the largest caught on that particular trip, but it still makes for some nice eye candy. Even better? Those [...]

A Couple of Days at the Yamsi

JB — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:07:41 +0000

I was gone most of last week, putting some dusty mileage on Oregon’s passes and backroads. One place I ended up was the Yamsi Ranch in southern Oregon. Some of my time was devoted to a fly-casting clinic, but the rest of my hours were spent exploring the section of the Williamson River that runs [...]

Friday Fish Fry – North Umpqua

JB — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:04:40 +0000

No fish in today’s photo, just water (but I guarantee that there are fish in the photo, just not showing themselves above the water). This was taken on one of America’s crown-jewel rivers, the North Umpqua. If you’ve never been to or fished the North Umpqua, you need to do so at some point in [...]

Back!

JB — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:06 +0000

Been gone, had no WiFi, finally back. Below shows some of what Kel and I were up to. More to follow later today (including some Tenkara-style action).

Fishing the Leadville 100

JB — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:02:55 +0000

I’ve had the Leadville 100 ultra-marathon mountain bike race on in the background as I work at home today, painting and writing. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, you can find out more here (check the start altitude and the pass elevations. Oh yeah, also check out some of the athletes who have [...]

Swinging Soft-Hackles and Rain on Junipers

JB — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0000

As some of you know, I don’t tend to blog a lot about my actual fishing in “real time.” Fishing is often a rather personal affair for me, and I typically use fishing events to later enhance “how-to” pieces and so forth some time after the fact. This week, though, I wanted to do an [...]

Great Lakes Carpin’ @ FlyTalk

JB — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:12:52 +0000

GB with a “golden bone.” Decided to use this scandalous pic hero-shot of GB after I, um, “couldn’t find” any shots of myself with such a magnificent critter. Looks like my friends over at “Field & Stream” magazine’s FlyTalk blog recently had some sweet carp-fishing action on Lake Michigan’s Beaver Island. When I was still [...]

(The New) Deschutes River Camp – Pix

JB — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:09:47 +0000

Friend and now shop-owner, Matt Paluch, has been busting it hard to get the old Deschutes River Camp back into shape for a new season. He picked up the Camp relatively recently, and invited me down to see what was going on and to do a day of casting clinics. When I arrived on Thursday [...]

(The New) Deschutes River Camp – Casting Clinics

JB — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:08:26 +0000

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 [...]

The Tzar’s Trout – 2010 Redux

JB — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:26:42 +0000

This week’s DF 52 fly is to be a sculpin (artist’s choice), and that got me thinking about some of the sculpin-based char imitations that I used on a trip to northern Russia some years ago. Of course, that got me thinking about the TV show that I was part of on that trip, which [...]