Mark Liu's Fly Fishing Art

January 31, 2008 7:33 PM

Mark Liu's Fly Fishing Art.....Mark is both an artist and a photographer, with a love of the outdoors, and of fly fishing. In addition to his paintings linked in the title, Mark also has a blog dedicated to his fishing related photography. One of the neat aspects of Mark's site is his offer to send you free art if you take a kid fishing! If, like me, you're stuck in a long winter of ice and snow, these paintings and photos will provide a few moments of vicarious fishing! Enjoy!
posted by HuronBob (5 comments total)

One of life's more satisfying pleasures is the perfect presentation of a fly to a big fat trout feeding off of the surface in a small pool on the opposite side of a river. A river truly does run through it.
posted by caddis at 7:43 PM on January 31, 2008 [1 favorite]

Man, I thought that headline read "Mark Liu's Flying Fish Art". This is cool too.

Those sharp, barbed hooks whipping back and forth on the end of long, barely visible strands give me the willies when I even think about them.
posted by ErWenn at 8:31 PM on January 31, 2008

Other great trout | fly-fishing art: James Prosek --

Trout: An Illustrated History

Trout of the World

Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship

Fly-Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel

NPR interview with James Prosek.
posted by ericb at 9:22 PM on January 31, 2008

Ooh, I like Mark Liu's fishing photography. This one of a kingfisher is really beautiful.

And James Prosek's paintings are excellent.

My soft spot is the dragonflies made by Graham Owen: Realistic and Artistic Fly Tying.
posted by nickyskye at 12:28 AM on February 1, 2008

May 1st is the start of the season for trout on the river where I fish, so I have to endure not only the winter of ice and snow, but also 2/3rds of spring before I get to catch another trout. I've been catching up with back issues of This Is Fly, and dreaming of my first cast.
posted by roofus at 6:09 AM on February 1, 2008