I promised the E-List (and all FF&W readers) that I would up the educational ante with more streamer posts. Well, GB took the lead with a post of his own. It’s specifically focused on tying the Collared Leech, a simple, but really effective fly (variations have caught all manner of fish, including tarpon). Go tie!

This is a bit of straight-up post laziness, I admit, but it also is useful from an educational standpoint, especially if you are into/curious about the CCS system for measuring rod properties. As many of you know, I am putting in a bit of time up at Gary Loomis’ new North Fork Composites. Part of [...]

After a bit of WordPress fiddling, GB’s blog is alive and taking nourishment. If you’re in the mood, head over and say hi. Update: GB is getting the WordPress thing figured and is already posting more on his blog. GB can write fly-fishing verbiage faster than anyone I know (I’m a “deliberate” writer, sometimes to [...]

The Upside-Down Leech is the fly up above, but down at the bottom. The educational content in the latest E-List mailing was focused on streamer techniques, specifically “subtle streamers.” One of the flies mentioned was the Upside-Down Leech, which promptly elicited an e-mail asking, “What’s an Upside-Down Leech?” I also promised the E-List that I [...]

GB is here in the Pacific Northwest right now, and is furiously typing away on his PowerBook. What is he typing, you ask? The start of a new book series that the two of us are collaborating on, that’s what. We have plans…big plans (insert megalomaniacal laughter here). Actually, the plan right now is, “We’d better [...]

I forgot to mention that I made a couple of small contributions (emphasis on the “small” part) to this project: a fly pattern (the Cross Dresser) and a short techniques piece. Authors Rick Takahashi and Jerry Hubka put some serious effort into this book (with tyers from all over the world contributing), and the finished product [...]

Yep, a pure lazy well-timed re-post. True, there is a perma-linked page over in the sidebar, but my web stats say the pages often get missed, so here it is again. This is an almost-verbatim snip from my Nature of Fly Casting book about one potential aid in grass-casting. And yes, you’ll probably see it show up again [...]

King salmon in Wisconsin may not be pretty, but they still bite and fight just fine, thanks. Behind that handsome Photoshopped visage lurks GB, gleefully showing me one of the many “river horses” he reined in over the last four days or so. He actually had the audacity to call me from the river while [...]

I’ve been putting in some time up at Gary Loomis’ new North Fork Composites (NFC) rod-blank project (blog is here). When the company was getting underway, there was a discussion about using Dr. Bill Hanneman’s Common Cents System (CCS) for providing additional (and “objective”) blank data, and NFC decided to run with it. The CCS [...]

After the beetle fishing/tying posts, I had a few e-mail exchanges with several FF&W readers, including Satoshi, who was fishing in the Yellowstone area last month. From what Satoshi reported, fishing was tough, but the indicator beetle he chose to use made following the drift easy. The Tiger Beetle (Satoshi’s personal tie shown above), is [...]

If I’m going to order a bunch of these things, I might as well know what to order, right? So, let me know! (Just as a note, no matter what material(s) I run with, the tees will be made (manufactured, not just printed) in the U.S.)

Yes, there really will be one coming soon. They take some effort to create, and I’ve gotten about three weeks further behind than I’d hoped on the next mailing (seems that I say that about every mailing, doesn’t it?), The next mailing will have a streamer-fishing focus, along with the usual “free stuff” give-away. It [...]