Yes, it’s coming soon! With some educational goodies (including a Fishing the Film book excerpt) and a “tax-break” give-away of a Nature of Fly Casting book or FF&W tee (winner’s choice). I fully realize that March/April could pretty soon be April/May, so I’m aiming to have it out by the weekend. Update: The E-List mailing [...]

So here’s the “official” chapter list for the upcoming book, Fishing the Film (due out in June 2010—we hope): 1. Fishing the Film 2. The Fish’s Window 3. The Universal Emerger 4. Feeding at the Film 5. Casting for Drag 6. Mending for Drag 7. Fishing Dead Drift 8. Action Film 9. Film-Fly Design Concepts [...]

Book one of the (planned) 20-book GB/JB fly-fishing series is inching closer to reality. Fishing the Film is totally written, and almost through the final edit. I have begun to plan out what I need to do with the required illustrations over the next few weeks. I’ve decided to go in a direction that takes [...]

Starting this week, MidCurrent.com is collaborating with Jeff Kennedy and me to provide the Drawing Flies 52 fly art (sometimes with additional text) to MC e-newsletter subscribers. MidCurrent began the collaboration with the Flashback PT from January 28th, and will be going week-to-week from there. If you want some more info on the flies, and [...]

Well, jasonborger.com is still jasonborger.com, but fishfliesandwater.com has taken over from jasonborger.com and turned jasonborger.com into fishfliesandwater.com. Confused yet? ;-) Actually what I’ve done is transfer the blog URL (a/k/a the Web address) from jasonborger to fishfliesandwater. The change should be essentially invisible, since both domain names point to the same set of files. BUT, [...]

Al Crise (or “ol’ Al” as he was known to many) has passed. Some FF&W readers may know Al from his casting classes at Federation of Fly Fishers’ meetings and so forth, or from his posts on a number of fly-fishing bulletin boards. Al was tireless in his teaching of fly casting, and had a [...]

Some of you may have noticed the new “Collaboration” header over in the sidebar, and wondered what was going there (indeed one of you wondered enough to e-mail and ask). The collaborations are exactly that, FF&W and a small group of other blogs working together to provide content and so forth. Today is the day [...]

The FF&W E-List mailing for Jan/Feb 2010 has gone out (as of Sunday night). My analytics show no “bounces,” so the mailing should have reached everyone on the list. My concern is that overly aggressive spam-filters may catch it (even though it is designed to avoid those issues for the most part). If you are [...]

Just a quick post to everyone who has ordered Nature of Fly Casting books up through and including Jan 29. All the books have shipped or are shipping as of today (Feb 1). Got a little behind due to the heavy initial response (thanks!), but am now caught up on shipping. Depending on where you live, [...]

GB has now finished the initial writing of Reading Waters, the second book in our upcoming series. From the title I’m guessing that you can figure out what the book is about. We are editing book one (Fishing the Film) now, and we are also setting up the pricing structure, distribution, and other details for the series. My [...]

While many FF&W readers have likely already heard about the freeze issues affecting the Florida coastal fishery, I thought that I’d put up a quick link to the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust’s news center (includes links to official FWC statements, as well).

Yet another fly-fishing friend has died—Jim Greenlee. It’s likely that not many readers will recognize Jim’s name, but I know that some of you still wade in the boots that he shepherded into being—along with my father—many years ago. Jim was in charge of Weinbrenner when he and my father got together and made the [...]