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Tenkara Updates From Japan

Anthony Naples — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:06:42 +0000

Amago: A little photo manipulation art that I did based on one of Daniel's photos

Tenkara USA founder Daniel W. Galhardo has been in Japan visiting with various Tenkara fishers there and studying tenkara, and well…fishing. He has been updating the Tenkara USA blog with dispatches from Japan, very interesting stuff. Based on [...]

Tenkara Summit USA 2011

Anthony Naples — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:00:31 +0000

Many of you may already know about this gathering but I figure it wouldn’t hurt to give it a little publicity bump again. It has been two years since Daniel W. Galhardo of Tenkara USA made tenkara equipment readily available to American anglers. In that time tenkara has grown rapidly in [...]

Peacock Sakasa Kebari Fly Art

Anthony Naples — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:10:12 +0000

Just doing a little messin’ around with the photo editor – thought I’d share this Peacock Sakasa Kebari.

Trout Art: Steampunk Trout Submarine

Anthony Naples — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:27:23 +0000

For some reason I had the urge to sketch up a Steampunk Trout Submarine, go figure…

If your’e interested in buying prints drop me a line using the “contact me” page up above.

Landscape Paintings by Sharon Lynn Williams

Anthony Naples — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:05:04 +0000

Old Man: watercolor by Sharon Lynn Williams

Trout live in many places – western wilderness, mid-western coulee country, limestone rich valleys of central Pennsylvania, the old mountains of the east. Though different, all of these places have their own charm. The landscapes through which trout streams run evoke deep-rooted feelings in [...]

Chaos, Fly Fishing, Art

Anthony Naples — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:28:28 +0000

I’ve come to realize that fly fishing (and fly tying) for me is largely a matter of trying to salvage some semblance of order from a chaotic world. This “order” may be an illusion, but it is a practical magic that has an effect on the real world. Art is much the same [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #25: Everything Has Its Season

Anthony Naples — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:49:00 +0000

Fall Stream by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #25: Everything Has Its Season

Born in late winter and populated with fingers of trees still naked and grasping for the dull tin pie plate that passes for the sun in that cold country, the season begins. It begins with fly boxes fattened with speculation, cabin fever [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish

Anthony Naples — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:30:44 +0000

Trout by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish

There is no escaping the conclusion that all trout streams are liars– hustlers with flashing liquid grins whispering devious, sweet, gurgling fictions, and selling trinkets of silver, blue, and red– stolen from the fishes.

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #21: Some Trout

Anthony Naples — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:07:22 +0000

Voodoo Fish by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #21: Some Trout

Some trout are like voodoo dolls, standing in for something else. Pierced and prodded, a means to some secret end. Or maybe like magic eight balls, shaken to reveal an answer- Yes, no, ask again later… Some are containers to hold things until a better time. Some are fortune [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #20: The Difference Between Searching and Finding

Anthony Naples — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:19:47 +0000

Red Rocks by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #20: The Difference Between Searching and Finding

I turned the stream inside out like a pocket, searching for things that I thought were in there. But I only found a blue ribbon of sky, slipping between the red rocks and dark ridges of pine, a rusted-out car, [...]