Running down to Eugene, Oregon to give a talk tonight, but wanted to get this up before I left. (And seeing that is about to snow for real here, who knows what time I’ll be back?) As discussed previously, Jeff and I are pre-announcing each week’s DF&F 52 fish and/or fly ahead of time. We [...]

A few more notes about the DF&F 52 project: Update: Check out the interview with Jeff over at The Fiberglass Manifesto. There’s a nice slideshow of all of Jeff’s work from the 2011 project year there, too. As discussed previously, Jeff and I are pre-announcing each week’s fish and/or fly ahead of time. We are [...]

Whether abbreviated as “DF&F 52″ or just “DFF 52,” the 2012 art project that I’ll be working on with Jeff Kennedy will encompass the subject of our two previous years. Yes, 2012 is the year of Drawing Fish & Flies 52. In other words, we’ll be doing both fish and flies this year, alternating between [...]

In case anyone is wondering, this week’s DF52 fish and the Friday Fish Fry have been postponed a bit. My lap very recently had some laparoscopy so I’ll need another day or two before I am back at FF&W. Nothing too serious, just lifted one too many giant steelhead and paid for it with my inguinal [...]

Just got an email from Pete Tyjas at the new e-zine, “Eat Sleep Fish,” and it seems that all the needed pixels are ready for consumption. I did an interview with Pete some time ago, and that interview, along with 15 other articles is now on-line. I go on (and on) about casting, movies, and [...]

Emerging from my private screening room after days of coffee- and Jujyfruit-fueled film viewing, I have declared a winner in the Jazz & Fly Fishing Shadow Cast Competition. I can’t reveal the winner until the gents over at J&FF post my review, but I can tell you that it was a close competition. Rarely have [...]

Yep, on its way all across the world. Check your email right about…now. Update: Looks like there were 8 hard bounces (that’s fancy-talk for “dead email addresses”). If you didn’t get your mailing, make sure your address is up-to-date in your profile (a link to your profile should be at the bottom of any previous [...]

As you may have noticed, FF&W has had a few changes overnight. I tossed up a new header, plus a few other graphical and text alterations. The blog was waaaay overdue for some freshening, so I figured that there was no time like the present. Hope you like what you see, and I may do [...]

Yep, getting ahead of myself. And nope, couldn’t help it. I had a vision of the new Nature of Fly Casting cover pop into my head, and I had to sit down and work it out. Here’s a little teaser showing part of the front cover: This may not be final final (maybe I’ll get tired [...]

Comments have been acting up (again). Got it fixed now. Thanks to John L for the heads up! A little insect art to make this post more than just three short sentences:

After digging through all sorts of pix looking for a front cover photo (back cover was easy), I finally found a shot that both GB and I like for the upcoming book, Long Flies. We wanted a photo that had a sense of real “old school” (I don’t mean 1989) big-water streamer fishing. Ended up [...]

So the next book in GB’s “Fly Fishing” series—Long Flies—is well underway. Actually, I’m keying in edits tonight, and then onto illustrations and photos. The book is a surprisingly fast read considering that it hits a bunch of history along the way, as well as fly patterns. I think that those interested in the subject [...]

Been gone, had no WiFi, finally back. Below shows some of what Kel and I were up to. More to follow later today (including some Tenkara-style action).

Got an email this morning that the blog commenting system wasn’t working properly. Don’t know how long the issue had been in play, but I’m guessing a few days (when I log-in, I have access to everything, so didn’t see the problem right away—sorry about that). All *should* be up and running as normal now. [...]