Updated (see below). Jason is slaving away over not only hot pixels, but hot photos as well. There’s a great deal that goes into making a page look as nice as the ones below. This is the first page of flies in Chapter 10 in our soon-to-be-released book, Long Flies. I think it’s absolutely top [...]

Jason reshot Ulf Hagstrom’s “Still Got the Blues for You” at a different angle to better show the tail configuration. It’s well worth seeing. Thanks Jas!

Our new book, Long Flies, is getting closer. Watch for announcements about its release date and any special offers. Long Flies is a solid look at the developmental history of bucktails, streamers, leeches, buggers, muddlers, divers, collard flies, tube flies, and more, with special attention to design parameters. In addition, it contains an in-depth look [...]

After the International Fly Tying Symposium, Chuck and Ben Furinsky, and our friend from Holland, Theo Bakelaar, went searching for blues and stripers. They fished all day and finally found three large flocks of birds diving over bait. The fish were there and all of them were into both blues a stripers for they couple [...]

Long Flies is coming soon. Watch here and on Jason’s blog for further announcements. Jason and I have settled on the cover art for Long Flies. It has the perfect look and feel to it, and I think it’s a great visual to introduce the reader to this wonderful facet of fly fishing.  Long Flies [...]

My friend, Chuck Furimsky, founder and manager of The Fly Fishing Shows, is also the developer of Bugskin. It’s a thin leather product used in fly tying. Well, Chuck was cleaning a striper and found 3 baby flounders in its stomach. So what else could he do but tie a baby flounder fly? He found [...]

Jason has been giving the smallies a hard time in recent days. Not that they don’t deserve it, it’s just that I wish I was there havin at ‘em, too. In our forthcoming book, Long Flies, I discuss a tactic called the jigging Swing that is one of the most deadly tactics for smallies, trout, [...]

Another excerpt from our upcoming book Long Flies. This story is “hot off the press” because it’s a story about a fishing experience I had last week in Alaska. Some anglers have difficulty considering these actual fly fishing tactics, and that’s okay as long as they don’t try to make others stop using these tactics. [...]

This story is from last week’s Alaska trip and will appear in our forthcoming book, Long Flies. The week was cold, rainy and very windy. We had one afternoon of sun, and that happened to be the day the chums were on the shallow bars.It was fishing extraordinaire, as the story tells.   Alaska’s Alagnak [...]

[JB in here for GB while he is off lashing the waters of the Alaskan wilds. Just a little re-post on Reading Waters from my own site.] While posting re-formatted excerpts of a book is nice, it is sometimes nicer to actually see what the inside of a book really looks like. I figure that [...]

[JB here, guest posting for GB today—hey, it's Father's Day, so I'll do the work for the "old guy"] I’ve gotten a few emails from people asking about Reading Waters and potential Father’s Day availability. Well, it’s Father’s Day, and I can confirm two things: 1) The book is coming off the press (GB already [...]

Jason and I have received the page proofs from our printers and are busy examining them. They will go back to the printers in a couple of days, and then the book will officially be “in the works.” We will, of course post the estimated release date and other pertinent information right here and on [...]

[A quick post from JB] Yep, it’s gone. Off to the printer in Ohio for proofs, then onto the press shortly thereafter. We’ll have an order page up as soon as we can for those readers who might be interested in a Father’s Day gift (not sure that actual delivery will make Father’s Day, but [...]

Well, my old friend Jake Jordan doesn’t use a Gray Ghost for his tarpon fishing, but he certainly takes a lot of big fish on long flies at night. Night fishing for big browns is very exciting. Imagine what catching a 100 pound-plus tarpon is like–especially with the added thrill of sharks that can’t be [...]