Fish, Flies & Water [blog]

Drawing Flies 52 – 31_Brassie

JB — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:03:26 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Brassie (gold beadhead). I grew up fishing Brassies, and they were a staple midge pattern for me in spring creeks all over the Rocky Mountain West. The flies I fished as a kid (well, the flies I still often fish) were/are simpler than this. They use the same skinny wire body, but [...]

FF&W E-List Member Survives Bear Attack

JB — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:20:35 +0000

I had to triple-check her name, nickname and e-mail address, but it appears that Deb Freele, who is an FF&W reader and E-List member, was the woman who survived the bear attack near Yellowstone earlier this week. Despite suffering some serious bites and a broken arm (I hope it wasn’t her casting arm), Deb played [...]

A Note About “NOFC” Book Orders

JB — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:00 +0000

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 [...]

“Nature of Fly Casting” EOL September 1

JB — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:05 +0000

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 [...]

FtF Drawings Done Today!

JB — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:08:27 +0000

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 [...]

From the Archives: TC Tarpon Fest

JB — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:12:46 +0000

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 [...]

Fresh 864-4 Blanks. Hot Off the Sander…

JB — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:06:17 +0000

Spent most of Friday at North Fork Composites doing CCS and flex-board testing of rod blanks, while paging through patterns and doing some mix-and-match. The goal was to get three specific sets of blanks: 905-4, 906-4 and 864-4 for one of North Fork’s European clients. Got quite close on 5 of the 6 total blanks, [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 30_Leadwing Coachman

JB — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:36:26 +0000

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 [...]

“Fishing the Film” Update

JB — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:01:42 +0000

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 [...]

A Nice Little Matched Set

JB — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:00:41 +0000

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….

Drawing Flies 52 – 29_Loop WIng Dun

JB — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:22:42 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Loop Wing Dun. One of my all-time favorite patterns for spring creek trout (or any trout looking for small mayflies, actually). This fly has done the trick all over the world for me, and it is a permanent resident of my boxes. Notes: It may be 11pm, but at least I wasn’t [...]

Drawing Flies 52 – 28_Chironomid

JB — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:33:15 +0000

Drawing Flies 52 Chironomid (giant lake midge, in this case). Notes: Five minutes after 11 (pm). Asleep on the couch. Kel wakes me up with “Hey, did you do your fly for today?” So, here it is (at 11:31pm). Update: Went with what I know by heart—a big lake chironomid pupa. Got it done and [...]