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!”

Here’s a pic from the (getting closer to done) Fishing the Film book. Anyone care to guess what the shot is of (the general subject), and from what position it was taken? First correct answer (or close enough to correct, in my estimation) gets a prize (answer with a comment below or an e-mail, both [...]

We started 2010 with fly drawings, so why not tie one on? Kel leaned over my shoulder and took this shot one day as we were fishing an old spring creek haunt. No real set-up, no real intent, just literally a quick snap-shot using dead-stock camera settings. Art? No. But it still means a lot [...]

Merry Christmas to all from Kel (the beautiful girl with the large rainbow) and me (the other person with the embarrassing slightly less large trout).