Another quick pic to provide a little fish eye-candy here at FF&W. This is a shot I took many years ago, when film was what you put into cameras instead of SD cards. This brown was caught on Bartlett Lake on the Vermejo Ranch property. The combination of the overhead sky and the low angle [...]

No actual fish in this one. I just like this as a candid “my girl and me” shot (thanks, Flynn). Kel’s working a drop-off (just to the left, off-camera) somewhere on some water someplace in western Montana. A few hours after this shot was taken, Kel made one of the most dead-on perfect Puddle Casts [...]

Everyone needs a good fishing name, a name that you can use in quotes between your real first and last names. It should be a name that rings of your angling/romantic prowess, or your favorite fish species, or even some locally/regionally/nationally known incident in which you were intimately involved. I have such a name. Actually [...]

After miraculously managing to get last-second, but rockstar-adjacent parking near Portland’s Hollywood Theater last night, Kel, her backpacker cohort, Hatti, and I wandered in to pick up our River Why tickets and find some seats. It was a packed house, which was good to see, and the River Network had a nice long intro time [...]

A few shots from the last fishing trip over the Cascades (after a drive through the smoke and ash on the pass). When Kel and I fish small streams, we often take a single rod and one vest or pack, filled with 17 times more gear than we need (hey, why not bring one’s entire [...]

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).

The River Why, which has been making the film fest rounds over the last year or so, is going to have its official premier in Portland on September 9. Kelley and I will be attending, and three of the principle actors are also coming in for the showing: Zach Gilford (Gus), William Hurt (H2O), and [...]

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 [...]

Old family friend, Royce Dam, fishing Pelican back in the day. Own a copy of Reading Waters? (If you don’t, you should.) Go check out page 24 for the same shot in relation to feeding lies. According to a post at the New Heathen’s blog, one of my absolute favorite places to fish from my [...]

No fish, no drama, just a single frame that Kelley took of me one day on Montana’s DePuy Spring Creek a few years ago. It’s really just a snapshot, with no premeditated anything going on, but what it displays just speaks to me rather strongly about my fishing and my life. I’ve fished the spring creeks [...]

Was out on the Willamette near Portland yesterday evening with my friend, Matt Klara, sussing out some smallmouth bass water. We found fish. We even caught fish, including a rather nicely sized bass that chomped a little sili-leg crayfish that I was tossing. We also turned some heads on the river by using a drift [...]

You see some cool stuff fishing…. Sort of the opposite of this.

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 [...]

A nice brookie from Polar Bear Provincial Park. 1-2-3-lift (and don’t forget to look at the camera next time).