GB’s second book in the “Fly Fishing” series, Reading Waters, is planned to be available in time for Father’s Day orders (I’m polishing the index right now). In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from the text. This is basically the first few paragraphs from page one of Chapter One. Hope you like it. Waters have always [...]

Was digging through a pile of salmon photos earlier today, looking for shots to use in this year’s DF52 project (Jeff and I will hopefully manage to get through all five Pacific salmon). I came back across this one, and was instantly reminded of two things: 1) Wisconsin may not be Alaska, but there is [...]

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 [...]

Hard to believe this shot of me was taken in Tasmania some 15+ years ago. What happened to the time? It feels like my angling life is rushing by and I’ve become strangely disconnected from some of the places that I know and love. 15 years?! How can that be? Well, in any case, it’s [...]

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 sights, sounds and smells of this place are so close to me right now that my mind and body are literally craving them. This is a photo from a day that my father and I spent along the Madison between Hebgen and Quake Lakes a few years back. So warm that morning, with a [...]

This morning, I finished up the photo/illustration layout for Chapter Three of Reading Waters. In one spot, GB dictated the use of one of my 1990s-vintage photos of Costilla #1 creek on the Vermejo Ranch property. It is a photo pulled from a series of images that I made one morning when the light simply forced [...]

Now that’s a storm. Somewhere west of Mt. Vernon, South Dakota with an approaching supercell. Having moved from the Upper Great Lakes region to the Pacific Northwest, I’ve had to adjust my expectations of what the word “storm” actually means. For example, right now, we are experiencing a series of “storms” here in the Portland [...]

Other than the fact that I’m taller now, and rarely wear green pants, there isn’t much difference between this shot from 1975 and some I took recently. This is from the first year that father did fly-fishing schools on the Vermejo Ranch property in northern New Mexico. GB was a newly-minted director in the then [...]

Small streams usually don’t force much in terms of wading, aren’t typically the realm of long casts and, with their shallower waters, can be dry-fly heaven. However, just because a stream is small doesn’t mean that it can’t also have secrets. Perhaps the biggest small-stream secrets are undercuts, those dark places where water carves at [...]

More sad news in the fly-fishing world: Dick Talleur has died. I just received an email from Marla Blair, with the following included from Dick’s sister-in-law: It is with great sadness that I must tell you that Dick Talleur died … February 18, 2011, after a brief illness, at the age of 79. Dick suffered [...]

Got word from GB yesterday that Sylvester Nemes died earlier this month. GB knew Sylvester for many years, and I always enjoyed seeing and talking with Sylvester at shows and other gatherings. The Bozeman Chronicle has a short note on his passing here. Since Sylvester was a champion of the soft-hackle fly, I think that a [...]

I’ve met a fair share of anglers confined to a wheelchair for various reasons, and getting someone out on the river (really out on the river) when they have limited mobility can be a challenge. Well, the guys at Adipose Boatworks came up with an elegant solution . What a smart way to get people [...]

So I got an email complimenting the current art posts, but asking if I was going to do some more purely “how-to” posts soon. How about today? This is from an old article that I did in “Fly Fish America” magazine: – – – – – – – – – - As a kid I [...]