10 of the 30 available copies of Designing Trout Flies in the full red leather cover with reading ribbon and gold foil stamping have been sold already. If you are thinking of getting one, act soon. Go here to order one: Designing Trout Flies.
I was rooting around in some boxes and found twenty copies of Designing Trout Flies bound in dark red leather with a reading ribbon. They are in pristine condition. Published in 1991, this book defined and refined the concept of designing flies, setting the processes aside from the procedures used simply as tying methodologies. Designing […]
The shoulder is the fulcrum of the cast, not the elbow and not the wrist, although they are involved. That is to say that the arm swings at the shoulder during the casting stroke. And that is precisely what it does. The casting stroke is exactly like a simple arm swinging motion. In fact, if […]
Of all the line pickups (did you catch that) (yes, puns intended) the “C” Pickup is perhaps my most favorite. It allows the angler to clean the line smoothly off the surface and dry a fly if needed, without the need for a false cast. Here’s a description of the “C” Pickup from our forthcoming […]
This is an excerpt from Chapter Seven of our forthcoming book, Reading Waters. Chapter Seven is entitled “Reading Rapids.” The excerpt below is about one of the least understood aspects of reading rapids, “The Secret River.” This is just a very small sampling of the mass of information that we have built into the book. […]
I literally just completed the first draft of our second book in the “Fly Fishing” series, entitled “Reading Waters.” Like the first book, “Fishing the Film,” it is loaded with practical information illustrated with stories from our angling lives. Now, Mr. Senior Editor gets to have his way with it–right Jason? Here are the chapter […]
My friend, Ozzie Ozefovich, has been shooting underwater footage of trout for years, and has produced a couple of revealing DVD’s on the life and times of trout. His latest DVD will be released later this month. Entitled “Trout Vision and Refraction,’ it is an excellent look at these phenomena. The underwater shots through the […]
The first draft of Volume 1, “Fishing the Film” in our book series entitled Fly Fishing has been submitted to the editor for his comments. Fishing the film deals with all aspects of this feeding zone, both above and below, as well as in, the surface film. Fishing the film is not always what it […]
I’m sorry I’ve been away from my Blog for a few days. I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a new book entitled “Fishing the Film.” It is Volume 1 in a book series entitled “Fly Fishing.” The books in the series will be written by Jason and myself. Jason is also the series editor […]