Nothing much to say about this one other than it has already been spoken for before it made it here.  It was a practice piece just to keep...

    I have been experimenting with dots lately and got inspired to do a little bit of dot sketching outside my usual fish subjects.  A re...

I have not added material to this blog in far to long.  I also have not put paint to paper in even longer.  Both are crimes quite un...

I just put the finishing touches on this years poster for the 2015 Tenkara Jam!!! www.appalachiantenkara.com

  How diverse is your Caddis pattern box?  Does it just have a few elk hairs or is it stacked with a wide range of flies of all colors an...

  The other day my little girls asked if I could sketch a butterfly for her so I got out the pad and started inking out a monarch usin...

  Its not about trout but its fishing and if involves hooking into any type of fish and getting some free swag - count me in.  I of cour...

I wont go into why its been so long since my last post except to say, occasionally a few things in life are more important than fishing an...

One of Americas true national treasures, the Greenback Cutthroat Trout was once thought to be extinct but after being rediscovered in some...

  The other day I was looking over a few fly tying books at a book store and came across one called Fly Patterns by Fishing Guides.  With ...

I missed the Tenkara conference out west a week or so ago and much to my dismay I will unfortunately miss the Appalachian Tenkara Jam next...

Small Brook Tout On Blue My life has been so busy lately that when my wife asked when was the last time I had done a blog post I actual...

Grab the Tiger by the tail and hang on.  Very few people outside the trout fishing community even know about the Tiger Trout and even fewe...