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, [...]

Found this lurking in a binder full of slides. GB was lookin’ young, I was lookin’ like a 70′s leftover (although a certain girl didn’t seem to mind), and the helicopter was lookin’ broken—but it was still a great trip. The salmon may not have been overly impressed with my hair, but they still seemed [...]

I’ve been doing more and more work with photo-based monotones and duotones in (Adobe) Photoshop and Illustrator. When converted to vector paths in Illustrator, an image like the one above can become wall-size with no loss in quality. While I’ve used this type of Photoshop-to-Illustrator workflow for various projects in the past, it has only [...]

(Another post along the lines of my remembrance of Mel. This one appeared as a foreword for Ernest Schwiebert’s two-volume, Nymphs project. If you don’t know much about Ernie, I’d encourage you to read some of his works—both technical and storytelling.) Before Ernie passed away in late 2005 (has it really been that long?), my father and [...]

Until his passing last year, Mel Krieger was essentially a life-long friend of mine. I first met him when I was barely old enough to remember it, but his influence on me spanned decades. What follows is a remembrance of Mel that I originally wrote for the Japanese magazine, Fly Fisher. I alluded to it [...]