Skip: Over the past thirty years Skip Morris has published twenty-two books on fly fishing and fly tying (among them, Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple, Western River Hatches, Trout Flies for Rivers, and Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes) and over 350 magazine articles. Skip has taught clinics, given Powerpoint shows and fly-tying presentations at fly expos and clubs in California and Arizona, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, Alabama, and a bunch of other states, in three Canadian provinces, and overseas.
The spring 2014 issue of Fly Tyer magazine announced Skip as a winner of the magazine's lifetime achievement award.
Skip’s wife, Carol, provides much of the photography in Skip’s work and all the illustrations. They live, currently, with one willful cat named Olive on Washington’s lush Olympic Peninsula amid its myriad opportunities for both fresh and saltwater fly fishing.
Carol:
Carol Ann Morris is a speaker, photographer, videographer, and artist (watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, clay, jewelry) who partners with her husband Skip on his books, magazine articles, instructional videos, and website.
Carol's Etsy store, CarolAMorrisFlyFish, features illustrations, paintings, photographs and other artwork (paired with detailed information sheets about each subject) that reflect her love of fly fishing.
Her photographs and illustrations have appeared separate from Skip's work, in Gray's Sporting Journal, Yale Angler's Journal, Fly Fishing & Tying Journal, Fly Fisherman, America's Favorite Flies, and others. Carol has performed her PowerPoint presentation titled "Fly Fishing Photography 101: How to Capture What You See" at fly clubs and sportsman's shows around the US and Canada. She has recently added some more PowerPoint presentations, and has performed these shows at fly fishing clubs and sportsmans events, including virtual presentations by Zoom.
1. Website: Skip Morris Fly Tying https://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/index.html
2. Social Media: Skip is on Facebook (Skip Morris), Carol is on Facebook (Carol Ann Morris) and Instagram (carol_ann_morris_flyfish)
3. YouTube Channel: Skip Morris Fly Fishing @Skipmorrisflytying_and_fishing https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYCWWqDeKSK_1yLA2EK5Bw
4. Carol's Etsy store: CarolAMorrisFlyFish https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolAMorrisFlyFish
5. Skip's books: https://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/skip-morris-books.html
6. Powerpoint presentations for Skip can be found here (presentations are 50 minutes long): https://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/skip-morris-powerpoint-presentations.html
7. Powerpoint presentations for Carol are (all shows are 50 minutes long):
Fly Fishing Photography 101: How to Capture What You See (this show concentrates on the elements of design in photography: color, composition, and light. There is the option to add-on an extra hour to have a fun and informative critique of slides submitted by club members at the end of the show)
Bugs and Fishes (an in-depth look at the origins of trout, the principles of "KeepFishWet", and a summary of the most important wes
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