One of my famous archived “placeholder” pix while I think of something better to post (or at least more wordy—fish are always good, words or not). This was from a video-shoot at Tarpon Cay a couple of summers ago. This day was fantastic—with babies, juvies and bigger boys up to about 80 pounds—until we noticed “some [...]

A nicely matched set of a ‘bow and brown, courtesy of Kel. Just a little distraction while I work out a post with some real content….

Just a shot I pulled from the archives. Kel fishing a deserted stretch of a Montana river. Caddis adult + caddis pupa. Cast, mend, drift, swing. Repeat until it’s “fish on!”

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 [...]

We started 2010 with fly drawings, so why not tie one on? Kel leaned over my shoulder and took this shot one day as we were fishing an old spring creek haunt. No real set-up, no real intent, just literally a quick snap-shot using dead-stock camera settings. Art? No. But it still means a lot [...]

Merry Christmas to all from Kel (the beautiful girl with the large rainbow) and me (the other person with the embarrassing slightly less large trout).

Not much to say about this beyond the post title. I just like the flow of the composition and framing (and the subject matter, of course). (For those who recall the old photographic adage “If you can’t make your shot good, make it red,” this is the modern update: “If you can’t make your shot [...]

Kel and I scouted some new (to me) water recently. I’ll be slinging a few flies at it in 2010 (so will Kel, but she had knee surgery today, so her wading will definitely be restricted until sometime in the new year). For those readers who are into photography, the shot above was taken at [...]

I’m slowly getting my act together on the grasshopper tying piece, but in the meantime here’s another pic from the archives. This is one my personal favorite fishing “snapshots” from Kel last year, taken on Oregon’s North Umpqua (I was working on a project at Steamboat for a couple of days—squint hard and you can [...]

Kel took this shot of a brown that I caught a few years ago on DePuy’s Spring Creek. It’s one of those photos that seems to continue to live on, despite its somewhat ordinary nature. Actually, this particular brown has shown up in a several different catalogs, ads, slideshows, and so forth over the last [...]

Finally got around to paging through “Catch Magazine” #7. Excellent as expected, with some very up-close-and-personal (and spectacular) tarpon photog work by Daniel Göz. “Catch” #7 also includes “The Light Series Part 4: Late Light,” which is inspiring to say the least (so many of my memories of great angling places are steeped in the [...]

While this isn’t technically a “still life,” the subject was at least holding still. There is something about tropical fish seen in tropical air that just can’t be replicated by anything else. Makes it even better if the tropical fish has just spent the previous 10 minutes yanking your arm off…