This weekend I was stuck working so no football, BBQ, or family fun. The good news is that my job took me to Traverse City Michigan. Why is ...

Here is yet another ink sketch. With a preview of a fishing report. I went fishing this morning and got skunked, but so did every other sou...

Had a free minute and sketched this bass out then had a little fun with photo editing. I am hoping to get a bit of free time this month to d...

Here is a Pencil sketch of a leaping trout going after a fly. Ive been doing a lot of Japanese type stuff in the last few days and this has ...

I have been super busy lately so I apologise for the string of picture posts without commentary. Today is another one of those days but I wi...

Nothing to say today. Its just one of those picture post days you just have to live with.

Here is Bassin sunfish posted for all those that try the big warm water jumpers on a fly rod. I know a few of my new followers really hit th...

A big day for A Year On The Fly blog with a special honor. A great forerunner in the business of fly fishing and Tenkara has chosen a work f...

"The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't." Patrick F. McManus. Some of the best times I'...

When I set out an open challenge to duplicate a simple looking fly with unusual colors I didn't expect to much, but my fellow bloggers h...

Just another free time sketching post. Added a bit of color to spruce it up but nothing to special. Also here is a bit of my thoughts I deci...

Here is a lake streamer with nothing else to say. Sometimes you just get a fly painting and that's it.

How do you make this fly? I painted it but short of dying my own buck tails, where do you find red and blue deer hair. I believe brown, whit...

SOLD Here is yet another Tenkara fly but with a bit of a quiz. Can you figure out what the Japanese character says? If you read Japanese it...