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).

Not much to say about this beyond the post title. I just like the flow of the composition and framing (and the subject matter, of course). (For those who recall the old photographic adage “If you can’t make your shot good, make it red,” this is the modern update: “If you can’t make your shot [...]

Kel and I scouted some new (to me) water recently. I’ll be slinging a few flies at it in 2010 (so will Kel, but she had knee surgery today, so her wading will definitely be restricted until sometime in the new year). For those readers who are into photography, the shot above was taken at [...]

I’m slowly getting my act together on the grasshopper tying piece, but in the meantime here’s another pic from the archives. This is one my personal favorite fishing “snapshots” from Kel last year, taken on Oregon’s North Umpqua (I was working on a project at Steamboat for a couple of days—squint hard and you can [...]

Kel took this shot of a brown that I caught a few years ago on DePuy’s Spring Creek. It’s one of those photos that seems to continue to live on, despite its somewhat ordinary nature. Actually, this particular brown has shown up in a several different catalogs, ads, slideshows, and so forth over the last [...]

Finally got around to paging through “Catch Magazine” #7. Excellent as expected, with some very up-close-and-personal (and spectacular) tarpon photog work by Daniel Göz. “Catch” #7 also includes “The Light Series Part 4: Late Light,” which is inspiring to say the least (so many of my memories of great angling places are steeped in the [...]

While this isn’t technically a “still life,” the subject was at least holding still. There is something about tropical fish seen in tropical air that just can’t be replicated by anything else. Makes it even better if the tropical fish has just spent the previous 10 minutes yanking your arm off…

One more still life from the archives while I prepare the next terrestrial-fishing piece. I like the interplay of similar colors in this shot, and the way those colors reflect the tropical heat and “flavor” of the location (Yucatan peninsula). This was taken at Tarpon Cay a couple of years ago, a few days before [...]

I have a small pile of fly-fishing still-life photos that have sat mostly untouched on my hard drive (until now). I think such shots often capture the unnoticed or under-appreciated details of our fly-fishing lives. I’ll be adding more of these as FF&W moves ahead. I hope that some will spark memories for you of [...]

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, [...]

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] A favorite place: Oregon Coast. While this has nothing to do with fishing (unless you count the fact that out there in the ocean, salmon and steelhead are waiting to return), I still hope that you find it worth [...]