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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This showed up the other day, a long-lost promotional photo of my father that was sent to me via my friends at The Fly Shop. The pic is still in great shape, and looks pretty much exactly as it would have when it was sent out in the 1980s. That makes GB is this shot [...]

One of the reasons I love to fish is water—the sound, the feel, the smell, the sight of it. Indeed, there are days when fishing is slow and I find myself just watching the water, rod behind my back, hoping perhaps for a rise, but simply enjoying the flow as it fills my senses. But [...]

If you’re rockin’ a shiny, new iPhone 4, and you’re putting the upgraded still cam/HD video set-up to significant field use, you might want to check out the upcoming Glif mount. Should make it easy to get those juicy HDR angling scenes without having to use the hood of your truck (or a rock, or [...]

People often ask if Kel fly fished before we met. The answer is no, but she was a pretty serious (and just pretty) backpacker girl. She wasn’t shy about doing two weeks out, so it comes as no surprise that part of our together life includes some more significant hikes back into various places (fly rods [...]

Last week, Kel and I spent a day fishing on the MZ Ranch outside of Bozeman. The MZ is rarely “easy” fishing, and our day was no exception. None-the-less, we caught fish (all on dries), and beat some of the worst spring-creek drag you can find anywhere. But for us, the MZ is really less [...]

A shot from a few years ago on a little river—some of you may know this exact spot—in Rocky Mountain National Park (for me, basically the whole Park qualifies as a “favorite place”). Had planned on three days in the Park in September after the IFTD show, but a change in schedule means I won’t [...]

One of my famous archived “placeholder” pix while I think of something better to post (or at least more wordy—fish are always good, words or not). This was from a video-shoot at Tarpon Cay a couple of summers ago. This day was fantastic—with babies, juvies and bigger boys up to about 80 pounds—until we noticed “some [...]

A nicely matched set of a ‘bow and brown, courtesy of Kel. Just a little distraction while I work out a post with some real content….

Just a shot I pulled from the archives. Kel fishing a deserted stretch of a Montana river. Caddis adult + caddis pupa. Cast, mend, drift, swing. Repeat until it’s “fish on!”