a legacy in hand-drawn flies
The Little Black Notebook
In the 1960s, during his retirement years, Harry Cameron drew over 90 flies with colored pencils in a little black notebook and wrote the materials for each pattern alongside them. He also included notes about fly tying material, fly fishing and fly tying history, and quotes from books he read.
Pop’s drawings have been shared on Instagram and flies from his journal have been tied, photographed and shared by followers from around the world.
Pop’s Flies - A saltbox film
POP’s Flies STorE
A Catch Across Four Generations
For five minutes, I felt like the best fly fisherman in the world.
I was on a mission to recreate a 70-year-old photograph of my great-grandpa.
He was on the bank of the Arkansas River at a time before it was the tailwaters of Pueblo Reservoir. Pipe in mouth, arm outstretched with a net, reaching for a fish. Trees in the background, thick with leaves, just beyond a long-gone wooden railroad bridge, now replaced by a larger steel one. An island full of shrubs in the middle of the flow.
A lot of things needed to line up.
