The trailer is out for the upcoming new movie on fly fishing–The River Why. You can see it on the River Why site http://www.theriverwhy.com/TRAILER/ where you can also see other information on the movie. It is also on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV5o7L4_DYU Watch for Jason being “taught how to cast.”
This is one of my most favorite mayfly dun designs. It sits correctly, the wing has a strong profile, the poly yarn gives the wing a natural sheen, and the fish eat it very well. It’s super easy to tie, and that makes it even more desirable.
I will tying a series of flies over the next few days as samples for Willard Koukkari’s forthcoming book on food organisms I’ll feature these flies in the blog as they are dressed and photographed. Today’s feature event is Thompson’s Foam Beetle. Ken tied it both with and without hackle legs, and it works both […]
The basic construction of this fly came from my knife-making, guitar-playing, piano-tuning, composer, and fishing buddy, John Beth. He’s always got something new and fun to play with, and when he showed me his Sperm & Egg Fly that he catches all his steelhead, and some browns and salmon with, I was delighted. The basis […]
My friend Marcelo Malventano has created another rather unusual piece of angling art, a stonefly in metamorphosis. For more of his great work, click on his link to the right.
This story will appear in our forthcoming book, Nymphs and Wets, as an illustration of the modified Czech Nymphing tactic. Montana had been under a siege of rain for weeks when Nancy and I arrived in late June to participate in a memorial service for our friend, Jim Greenlee, past owner and president of Weinbrenner […]
The trip is over, and we made it home between violent Mid-West storms. Wisconsin does get tornadoes, and we had three in our locale just before we arrived. The last part of the trip was a two-day fishing excursion on the Madison, probably my most favorite river in the US. When we visited in late […]
Sorry for the long pause between posts. I’m in Washington at the moment, working with Jason to put the last touches on the first book–Fishing the Film–in our 20 book series on Fly Fishing. Our optimism at having the fist book completed and out by this time was a bit short sighted. Not so much […]
Book number three, “Long Flies” in our Fly Fishing book series is coming together rather nicely. Like the other books, it is focused on the topic and the how-to information is developed around the underlying concepts. There are stories to illustrate the technical information as well as color photos and design sheets for the over […]