As I continue to tie flies for our third book, Long Flies, I am amazed at the richness of all the long fly designs. Probably, no not probably, simply the most brilliant early development of streamers (long flies with feather wings) came from the vise of Ms. Carrie Stevens. Here’s a two paragraph excerpt from […]
My apologies for abandoning all of you for the last 10 days or so. Jason and I have been working rather intensely to get book # 2 press ready. Reading Waters will be going to the printer this week. As soon as we have a release date we will, of course, post that on our […]
Volume 3, Long Flies, in our series, Fly Fishing, is reaching its final writing destination. Here’s a short excerpt from Long Flies on a design I call the Hen Matuka, It harkens back to the original fly tied with the feathers of the matuku bittern. The Matuka, a New Zealand imitation, solves the wing/hook-bend tangling […]
This is a story from our forthcoming book four in the “Fly Fishing” series. The title of the book is The Angler as Predator, and the story is from the chapter on fishing at night. Jason and I had been invited by the Tasmanian Tourist Board to spend a couple of weeks exploring the fishing […]
My friend, Captain Jake Jordan, recently landed what would most certainly have been a new world record Blue Marlin on the fly rod. He refused to kill the fish, and so it will have to stand as an unofficial record. He deserves praise and thanks for this unselfish act. Here’s the report from his skipper: […]
I will appear on Roger Maves Show–www.AskAboutFlyFishing.com tonight, February 2, 2011, Ground Hog Day, at 7pm Mountain Time. We will be discussing Fishing the Film and other topics. Let’s hope I get it all right the first time so I don’t have to do it endlessly until I do. See you then.
Book Three in the Fly Fishing series is entitled Long Flies. It is a look back and a look forward of the design of flies to imitate minnows, leeches, salamanders, eels, squid, and other elongate food prey of our sport fishes. The look back is to glean what we can from the thinking of long […]
Book number two in our series “Fly Fishing” is entitled Reading Waters. Many people define reading waters as finding fish in lakes and streams by looking at water types and conditions. But that’s not necessarily always so, as this story, excerpted from Chapter One of our forthcoming book reveals. Watch for more post on this […]
The day after the Old Pueblo TU Seminar was Halloween, and Mike Mehrer and I headed south to fish for bass. The following story from that day’s fishing will appear in two of our forthcoming books: Really Matching the Hatch II, and Stillwaters. The story will change slightly to emphasize that aspect discussed by each […]
As I was landing fish number three today, my cell phone rang. It was Nancy. The advanced copy of Fishing the Film arrived this morning. She says it is beautifully done. I’m really excited to see it for myself, but first, there are some more salmon that need to be taught about flies and fly […]