Here’s a new shot from a recent trip to Puerto Rico. The number of tailing fish we saw was absurd yet they were, like most permit, still really challenging. Below is an image of a tailing permit I took on a stunning flat that’s about 2 miles long. I spent over 6 hours one day walking this flat with Pat Duke and I’d gladly put the day on repeat.
Thanks to No Name Lodge for making this trip happen.
The image below is available as a fine art print.
Tailing Permit. Puerto Rico
Excited to have work in the new issue of Anglers Journal. Two features. One on portraits of fly fishing guides from New Zealand, Argentina, and Chile to Honduras, Cuba, the Bahamas and others. The other is on a handliner in Baja, Mexico I came across last December while camping on a remote beach for a week.
A nice winter run steelhead from a recent trip to the Oregon coast.
A rainbow release shot from a few days ago on the Big Wood River, Idaho. The water doesn’t appear as cold as it is…
Date: November 2019
Location: Baja California Sur
To see the editorial feature on this trip check out the current issue of The Drake Magazine
The two images below are outtakes.
Excited to have the cover of the new issue of American Angler. This shot was taken a few summer’s ago on Silver Creek on what was a truly memorable July day on Silver Creek. This was in the afternoon which meant the crowds had left after the morning hatch and the Creek was virtually void of fishermen—at least on the section I was on.
Two shots of the same location… Up close and pulled back.
9:30 pm and still a bit light… This image was taken from our camp looking upstream on a warm summer evening a week or so ago. New Zealand.
I just added the below image to the Black and White prints section of this web site. I shot it on a recent trip to New Zealand where the water can be extraordinarily clear.
Heaven… This was a river that I had been wanting to visit for years and finally was able to make it in.
Emily Rodger in the distance gets in one last pool before the sun goes down on a backcountry South Island river.
I just got back from a great trip down to New Zealand’s South Island. I was down there on a few different photo assignments both fly fishing related. The South Island is my favorite place to trout fish on the planet for a variety of reasons including the challenges of spotting / stalking the fish coupled with the fact that it’s just beautiful there. An added bonus is the Brown Trout can get really big as well despite the fact a great day on the water typically doesn’t mean catching dozens of fish like it can in the States and Patagonia.
This also happens to be a mouse year which, for those of you who don’t know, in short means: The native beech trees historically every seven or so years produce a great deal more (10x to 100x) the number of seeds which is called masting. Non-native mice and rats that feed off of the seeds have such an abundance of food they begin to reproduce at a much greater rate and all of sudden there are far more mouse and rats scurrying around South Island beech forests.
The South Island is known for large and wary brown trout to begin with but on mouse years some fish can add 40% more weight. The mice eventually make it down to the rivers edge on many watersheds where many believe, as I do, that mice actually try to cross the river. I’m sure some accidentally fall in but anecdotal evidence points to the intent to cross and generally mice do this at night and brown trout are known to be nocturnal feeders…
I’ll be posting more images but here are two images of the same fish both above and below the water. We estimate this brown to be in excess of 15lbs but unfortunately didn’t have a net to weigh it.
I’ve tried hard not to post many fish out of the water over the last few years but I’m including the first image below to show the size of the fish as you’ll likely agree that the second image below—which is of the same fish—appears smaller.
Emily Rodger holds a beautiful South Island brown.
I’ve been working on, call it a project, imagery that is not perfect in some way, shape or form. Maybe it’s not tack sharp or even just flat out of focus. Something could be cut off. Perhaps there are other blemishes like the lack of water clarity in the image below. I’ve found that so much imagery these days is perfectly sharp and often so from foreground to background. It comes down to, for me at least, embracing the flaws and in some way how light and composition can supersede those flaws and illicit an emotional reaction from the viewer.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. It’s a favorite image of mine by Keith Carter called, Fireflies
Cody Catherall hangs onto one yesterday on an Idaho River…
A winter sunset on Silver Creek. Really nice to see more snow!
Silver Creek, Idaho
Finally some more snow here in the Sun Valley area!
Christian Reid on a Big Wood River side channel yesterday.
Silver Creek at sunset a few nights ago.
Silver Creek, Idaho. Late October, 2018
Excited to have a two page image in the new, issue 10.1, of The FlyFish Journal. It’s their 10th Anniversary issue. Check it out!
Below, Kendall Witt is hooked up to a bonefish on a full moon night just feet from Faraway Cay, Honduras last March. I know it took a lot of work, replete with ups and downs, for Steve Brown, owner of Fly Fish Guanaja, to set up the heli operation at Faraway Cay. It’s a special place and I feel really fortunate to have had the chance to experience Faraway. Hats off, to you, Steve.
Full Moon. Faraway Cay, Honduras. Mosquito Coast. March 2018
Silver Creek. September 2018
It’s starting to look and feel like fall. In fact, tomorrow, September 21st will be the first day of fall. Cool mornings and beautiful sunny days in the upper 60’s to low 70’s are on the horizon.
Silver Creek Preserve. Mid-September 2018
Jim Skochdopole releases a nice Silver Creek brown on a beautiful early September day. Idaho
Ritchie Thurston, below, after a day on the Double R Ranch. Silver Creek, Idaho.
Ritchie Thurston. Sun Valley area guide and all around great person.
