Montana’s Gallatin River holds so much history for me that I sometimes feel like I’m wading into a fly-fishing time-warp as I rig up on its banks. From my first trout to my first shadow cast, the Gallatin has been a part of my angling life literally longer than I can remember. It is such [...]

I almost can’t take it anymore—I love the big fall browns so much. And while I am in the land of “real deal” steelhead, there is just something about sight-fishing monster brownies that I can’t get out of my blood… (Read all the lurid details here)

King salmon in Wisconsin may not be pretty, but they still bite and fight just fine, thanks. Behind that handsome Photoshopped visage lurks GB, gleefully showing me one of the many “river horses” he reined in over the last four days or so. He actually had the audacity to call me from the river while [...]

Kel took this shot of a brown that I caught a few years ago on DePuy’s Spring Creek. It’s one of those photos that seems to continue to live on, despite its somewhat ordinary nature. Actually, this particular brown has shown up in a several different catalogs, ads, slideshows, and so forth over the last [...]

Finally got around to paging through “Catch Magazine” #7. Excellent as expected, with some very up-close-and-personal (and spectacular) tarpon photog work by Daniel Göz. “Catch” #7 also includes “The Light Series Part 4: Late Light,” which is inspiring to say the least (so many of my memories of great angling places are steeped in the [...]

While this isn’t technically a “still life,” the subject was at least holding still. There is something about tropical fish seen in tropical air that just can’t be replicated by anything else. Makes it even better if the tropical fish has just spent the previous 10 minutes yanking your arm off…

Just a bit more art… A few years ago, I did a “field notes” style illustration for Trout Unlimited’s “Back the Brookie” campaign. The illustration has recently popped back up on the Georgia TU Back the Brookie Facebook page (along with other art that is being added in as the page grows). If you have [...]

Just a little eye candy from artist Paul Puckett to further satiate FF&W readers while I prep the next series of educational postings. I really like the look and feel of this piece (“Chilean Rainbow”), and I thought that a few of you might, too. In addition to Paul’s regular prints and originals, he also does some [...]

Just a little story as a warm-up before the upcoming three-post series on terrestrial fishing… I remember one afternoon in the high-altitude meadows of Yellowstone National Park. It was a summer more than a decade ago, and I had hiked back into Slough Creek under a blistering mid-day sun. The sharp climb and elevation combined [...]

Yeah, one (well, two) more from the archives. Can’t help myself (I have some actual educational posts coming up after this, I promise). I am also hoping to get some repeats of these shots within the next month. These are from last September—sight-fishing, small flies, and a slightly over-excited husband. The morning had dawned brilliant, [...]

Once I started digging through old slides, I couldn’t stop. Not much in the way of self-deprecation here (other than the obligatory, “What’s she doing with you?” jokes), just a shot that I love from one of my favorite Wisconsin salmon days. This fish was actually two fish at one point. Kel spotted this king, [...]

Yeah, definitely check it out over at Castaway’s site. Check out the size of the water, and check out the size of the sea-runs. Reminds me of a little river I fished in Russia once, but maybe better… “FF&W [blog] ‘Bow” courtesy of (who else?) Castaway Films.