Just a quick note if you have ordered a Nature of Fly Casting book and have not yet received an e-invoice for it. All orders that I have received have been invoiced via PayPal’s system, which allows for payment with a major credit card or PayPal account. If your e-mail system has a highly aggressive [...]

If you still want one, you’ve got until September 1, 2010, to order. After that date (assuming that I don’t run out of copies before then), the book will no longer be available from me (though there will likely still be a few copies lurking out there in shops and so forth). The book will [...]

At last, the final few drawings for Fishing the Film should be done today. I have been inserting the drawings into layout as I go (and doing captions at the same time), so that means that the book should be ready to go to the printers within a week or so. That pleases me to [...]

Drawing Flies 52 Leadwing Coachman. This pattern caught my father his first trout back in the day (when GB was 11). A lot happened after that! Actually the Leadwing Coachman features prominently in the first story in the upcoming Fishing the Film book, and is the second illustration in Chapter One. I drew several Leadwings [...]

Yep, it’s late. We had to chop out about two dozen pages, and adjust content as a result. Once we got there, and I got my final marching orders on drawings (which I was behind on by at least four weeks anyway), we decided to just re-set the release date to end of summer. We [...]

Here’s a pic from the (getting closer to done) Fishing the Film book. Anyone care to guess what the shot is of (the general subject), and from what position it was taken? First correct answer (or close enough to correct, in my estimation) gets a prize (answer with a comment below or an e-mail, both [...]

So, finally got the illustration issues sorted for the book series, and am neck deep in the new stuff right now (well, in the early mornings and late evenings, at least). I had a friend ask me if I do the illustrations like I do a dedicated drawing or painting for sale—in other words, one [...]

Just another Fishing the Film reject (Slide-Ball Slider this time). At least I’m getting some extra experience in fine-tuning certain aspects of the paper-drawing-to-vector-art process…. On a related note, there will be a “special offer” Fishing the Film announcement shortly!

A Bunyan Bug illustration from the first round of drawings that I did for the upcoming book, Fishing the Film. Once this drawing (and a bunch of others like it) were placed in the layout, we felt that it was too “heavy” for the look and feel of the text. So, it became a reject. Of [...]

Those on the FF&W E-List already got an excerpt from the upcoming Fishing the Film book, but I figured that the blog could use it’s own little snippet, as well. This is from a story about fishing damselflies in the film, and includes one of the drawings from the book. …We had observed and photographed [...]

So here’s the “official” chapter list for the upcoming book, Fishing the Film (due out in June 2010—we hope): 1. Fishing the Film 2. The Fish’s Window 3. The Universal Emerger 4. Feeding at the Film 5. Casting for Drag 6. Mending for Drag 7. Fishing Dead Drift 8. Action Film 9. Film-Fly Design Concepts [...]

One of my favorite patterns for imitating small mayfly nymphs, sliced straight from GB’s 1991 book, Designing Trout Flies. And by request, the Loop Wing Dun—perhaps my favorite small mayfly dun imitation ever—is the next fly up for instruction. Almost forgot: GB found a small stack of Designing Trout Flies buried in the dark recesses [...]