Fish, Flies & Water [blog]

Pasadena Fly Fishing Show 2010

JB — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:10:14 +0000

After heading over to Van Nuys Blvd. to order up a #2 at my old favorite In-N-Out Burger (I ate there more than I should have when I lived in LA), I’m now in Pasadena getting ready for tomorrow’s show. Hope to see a few FF&W readers over the weekend (I’m doing casting clinics and [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 11_Connemara

JB — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:42:49 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Connemara. Number 2 pencil (everyone’s fave from grade school!) with a dash of white-out pen, all served on a torn piece of craft paper, fresh from the roll.
Tech info: Went for more of a “sitting by the lough” feel with this one. Got the sense I wanted overall, maybe a bit “slick,” [...]

jasonborger.com is now fishfliesandwater.com

JB — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:16 +0000

Well, jasonborger.com is still jasonborger.com, but fishfliesandwater.com has taken over from jasonborger.com and turned jasonborger.com into fishfliesandwater.com. Confused yet?
Actually what I’ve done is transfer the blog URL (a/k/a the Web address) from jasonborger to fishfliesandwater. The change should be essentially invisible, since both domain names point to the same set of files. BUT, [...]

Adding a Swing

JB — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:01:17 +0000

With the recent Drawing Flies 52 emphasis on wet flies (another to come this week) I though that I’d post a bit on “adding a swing.” This really is an “add-on” tactic, not a full blown wet-fly approach, but it can still give your presentations an extra, and sometimes effective, element.
August of 2005 saw Montana’s [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 10_McGinty

JB — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:02:50 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 McGinty. Charcoal sketch with watercolor.
Available for purchase? No.
Tech info: 6″ x 9″ Strathmore paper, medium-soft charcoal with watercolor. I like charcoal in that it is so immediate and so spontaneous. With a toothy paper like I used here, the look and feel almost charts its own path as you go. Of course, charcoal [...]

Countdown Method

JB — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:57:52 +0000

Fly fishing from a boat can take many forms, whether it be sight fishing from a flats skiff or drifting the rapids of a wild Western river. Along with the wide range of boating possibilities comes a myriad of presentation techniques. In stillwaters, one of the simplest, but most important techniques is the Countdown Method.
In [...]

More on Fishing Dry Damselflies Wet

JB — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:01:58 +0000

After the Braided Butt Damsel post, I got a couple of questions about fishing damselfly adult patterns wet. Using the BB Damsel pattern shown, with a yarn parachute post (versus foam), the fly can be fished “damp” easily (just fish “sans floatante“). If you need to get the fly deeper, or are fishing a pattern [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 09_Deceiver

JB — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:33:24 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Deceiver (pike/muskie/baby tarpon colors). Had to join the DF 52 digital revolution in my own way (see Jeff’s soft-hackle for more on his first DF 52 digital foray). Pen-and-ink sketch, scanned, set as paths in Adobe Photoshop, exported to Adobe Illustrator, paths adjusted, printed, partly colored, ate the whole 30 minutes like [...]

Sketches on Sketches – Rio Grande Cutthroat

JB — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:01:14 +0000

One of my favorite ways to illustrate is to rough sketch with an added story line (previous ‘bow and brown (and other brown) already posted). Those of you who own the book, Presentation, have already seen these, but expect a bunch more in the new books series.
Below is a color version of the above (from [...]

Braided-Butt Damsel (Fly Pattern)

JB — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:01:34 +0000

If you’re not into fly tying the above title could give you pause, but if you are into the “vice of the vise,” then here’s a post for you. This has already been up over on GB’s blog, but I figure why not post it here, as well? This is from GB’s 1991 book, Designing [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 08_Soft-Hackle

JB — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:01:52 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Soft Hackle. Almost salmon-style with those long fibers. Pen with some watercolor added with a detail brush. Couldn’t stay away from the color….
Available for purchase? No, kinda like it for myself.
Tech info: 9″ x 12″ Canson tracing paper (I’ve come to really like the gliding smoothness of this razor-thin paper for pen [...]

Al Crise Has Passed

JB — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:21:18 +0000

Al Crise (or “ol’ Al” as he was known to many) has passed. Some FF&W readers may know Al from his casting classes at Federation of Fly Fishers’ meetings and so forth, or from his posts on a number of fly-fishing bulletin boards. Al was tireless in his teaching of fly casting, and had a [...]