If you’re hardcore about having fish everywhere in your life, here is another contribution to your needs. This is a re-worked version of a hand-tinted print series that I did years ago called “Steelhead Study #1″ (there was no #2, so that should tell you something about the success of #1). In any case, I [...]

What follows is a brief exploration and discussion of a few of the skill factors that come into play when meeting the challenges of distance, as well as wind. These skill factors do have real-world relevance outside of extreme limits. You may never need to cast 100 feet, but the skills that would allow you [...]

I have confirmed that I’ll be doing casting demos at the Bellevue, Washington (Feb. 6-8) and Portland, Oregon (Feb. 14-15) Fly Fishing Shows. If you have the burning desire for up-close-and-personal discussions of the Foundation Casting Stroke, the Three-Step Exercise, In-The-Air Mends, and more, mark the date(s) on your calendar. Although not finalized yet, I [...]

Kel is the beautiful woman holding the large rainbow trout. I am the other person.

Just a couple of ambient shots from a trip I took last month to fish the South Holston in Tennessee. It had been years since my last visit, and I was reminded again—as I often am in many places—that the fish are not the only reason we go fly fishing…

Okay, enough of the “re-loading” and “new stuff soon” posts—here is some actual new stuff (while chunks of this article have appeared in various forms elsewhere, they have not appeared at FF&W, so I’m going to call this “new”). Actually some of the following includes excerpts from the book, Presentation (penned by my father), so [...]

There is still a bunch of older content (mostly the “how-to” posts) that I’ll be re-working for this new version of FF&W, but there is also new content in the pipeline. If you’re a long-time reader, stay tuned, and I’ll get the fresh stuff mixed in as we go… “(Still) Reloading ‘Bow” courtesy of Castaway [...]

If you’re looking for a bit more entertainment in your Podcasts, you may want to check out some of what is going on over at the “Itinerant Angler.” I did a Podcast there last year, and unlike the “how-to” focused info of my “Ask About Fly Fishing” Podcasts, the IA show is more “interview style.” If [...]

I already have a link to these Podcasts over in the right-hand menu, but I thought that I’d give them a temporary boost as a post. There are currently three Podcasts that I’ve done with the “Ask About Fly Fishing” Internet radio crew over the last few years: 1) Casting, Mending, and Presentation for Difficult Angling [...]

2007 marked the 25th anniversary of the introduction of my father’s first instructional fly-fishing film, Nymphing. And I do mean film—16mm, shot with classic Bolex cameras. Looking back now, it is hard for me to believe that so many years have passed since those warm summer days on Montana’s famed Armstrong’s Spring Creek.

What follows is a re-working of a piece that I wrote some years ago about what I often think of as my “home” river. If you have ever fished the Madison, I hope that some of the words below bring to mind memories of your own moments along its storied banks. – – – – [...]

My casting-study compatriot, Grunde Løvoll (Ph.D), and I wrote this back in 2006 (based on Grunde’s high-speed video work and physics background). The article ended up being published first in Japan (in FlyFisher magazine), and then later in Scandinavia. After appearing in print, Paul Arden published it on his Sexyloops site (thanks, Paul!), and I put [...]