"I saw an iceberg once. They were hauling it down to Texas for drinking water. They didn't count on there being an elephant frozen inside. The wooly kind." - Senior Ed Bloom (BIG FISH, 2003) "YES. I thought I'd hooked a combative Brown trout in our meadow creek - I have a photographic memory. It was a pole-bending fish!" Actually it was a current running golden shiner that I hooked on a grasshopper.
Photo by CGL, Honey Grove, TX 2024.
Please reach us at carrollburgoon@protonmail.com
if you cannot find an answer to your question.
WHERE? THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, U.S.A.
WHAT? Ephemeros, Plecops, damselflies, caddis, dragonflies, fly fishers casting trout holds --- Plus a few other kinds of larger action portraits --- Carroll only paints what he knows, firsthand, up close and personal, afield.
WHEN? Planning complete. Connections made. Fieldwork and painting --- NOW.
★★★★ TOP, Much in Common is a Cahill mayfly on the underside of an Alder leaf along Pigeon Run. Standing on a granite rock in a 5'-wide meandering creek on a Piedmont farm, Carroll used his 90mm Macro to take a field photo for this pen and ink with Prismacolor --- His fingers are in the picture turning the leaf to reveal the Mayfly. You see them? He gifted the original to help get New Mexico's orphans into safe, loving homes. CBS ran the story in the Evening News for two weeks and United Artist Theaters showed the paintings before every movie for a month in several states. That's LEVERAGE.
VALUE ADDED:
1. Encourage sustainability and biodiversity
2. Promote vital stream and river health
3. Conserve sensitive environmental areas
4. Enjoy the healing of the great outdoors
5. Save wildlife, native flowers, and trees
6. Foster wise water stewardship
"The open, expansive outdoors experience fosters creativity,
out-of-the-box thinking, and forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku)."
7. Enjoy more of life with a rod and reel
8. Healing, Friendships, Freedom
◆◆ Photo and media ops galore --- Like 2,0 trout in a river mile
◆◆ Fosters individual and societal wellness
◆◆ Supports Veterans
9. You probably have reasons of your own
[BERNAYS BRUSH STROKES: Fly flingers GO FISHING wherever, whenever, because they can. Tactical and strategic thinkers instantly know how to exploit FFP to tweak your S-curve. Your CFO and tax counsel will know how to write it off. How do you put a price tag on that? What would it be worth to your competition?
EVERONE LOVES A GOOD STORY.]
Imagine "tight loop" artwork that makes a dominant statement, a unique selling proposition! A painting could feature you! This is your chance to enhance your market position and skunk the competition ---
"I use an integrative approach to create long-lasting value. My market no longer outruns speeding trains and jumps tall buildings, BUT often wades into swift currents surefootedly. -
"I'll buy an EOS-1D X Mark III DSLR 20.1MP digital camera and EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM (for afield) and a new M80 stereo zoom microscope (for the atelier) with a 12 MP digital camera, ring lighting, and a micrometer," Carroll plays in cold creeks, lakes, and mountains around a town where you fly-in, AND eagles fish, WATCHED BY LUNKER TROUT, moose, hunting wolves, big black bears, buffleheads, harlequins, goldeneyes --- And, Carroll, with his 20.1 MP camera in hand. ALSO, on his list: A Thomas & Thomas INDIVIDUALIST HENRY'S FORK 3-piece bamboo fly rod and T&T INDIVIDUALIST FLY REEL. Nothing but the best of the very best. Sometimes high cost doesn't jive with quality BUT, for FFP it must and it does. A private jet is going to take me and my family to our new home.
"I'm chronicling known fly flingers and benthic insects in 140+ watercolor paintings (Both detailed and abstract) AND pen and ink illustrations with colored pencils ★★★ GOOD FOR A STRATEGIC TRAVELING ART EXHIBITION (USA and Sister Cities) - Scientifically precise with known landscape scenery. My 1st career was field and lab benthic insect specialist in this Hemisphere's oldest natural history museum (1812 pre-dating the Smithsonian) and birthplace of environmentalism. My second career was marketing to the traveling UHNWI strata. THE ORIGINALS ARE NOT TO BE MADE FOR SALE. I MIGHT AUTHORIZE LOW-NUMBER (#2 of 9 thru #9 of 9) MUSEUM-QUALITY LIMITED EDITIONS and a couple of museum-quality UNCUT pairs. THEREWILL BE A COUOLE OF ARTIST PROOFS OF EACH PAINTING. YOU'D NEVER GUESS WHAT I'D SPEND TO DO THIS PROJECT THE WAY I ENVISION. ALL TBD.
"I am preeminently equipped to single-handedly do this as a First Rate project, with a pleasant blend of J.J. Audubon and Neiman styles with a little razzmatazz of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Johannes Vermeer, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Mark Rothko, Winslow Homer, and Hokusai. I delight in what each did for different reasons.
Something old, tried and true, and something new. I don't understand advanced mathematics so I paint in terms of Quantum physics, Albrecht Dürer, Bob Ross, with a few brush strokes Ēadweard Bernays and Albert Einstein could've added.
I'm not a Yankee Magazine intellectual, just ⅓ artist, half scientist, 33.3% athlete, and 77% businessman with Yogi Berra insight. I'm eclectic."
"I was just about giving it up as a bad job when I suddenly felt a rather smart pull at the line. I thought it was another little one, and I went to jerk it up. Hang me, if I could move the rod! It took me half-an-hour – half-an-hour, sir! – to land that fish; and every moment I thought the line was going to snap!"
- Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1899)
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."
- Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ibid.
"So I went home and tied what I thought might resemble those shrimp, complete with a hint of orange thread lifted from my mother’s sewing basket."
- Pennsylvania fly fishing legend, Joe Humphreys quoted by Ralph Scherder, September 25, 2020 Joe Humphreys: A Fly Fishing Legend - Dark Skies Fly Fishing
Joe Humphreys: National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Fly Fishing Hall of Fame
"Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people’s victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete." - Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, Chairman Emeritus of Nike, co-founder of Athletics West, author of Shoe Dog, middle-distance runner coached by Bill Bowerman. Phil Knight is a First Rate artist seeing what others simply didn't! Phil Knight - Wikipedia
"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church."
- Tom Brokaw, Anchor of NBC Nightly News, television journalist, author,
(2) Peabody Awards, (2) Emmys, The Presidential Medal of Freedom,
a University of South Dakota graduate.
"I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution."
- John Gierach
"So, it was one morning. I stood there, without even casting and with no trout rising, and as the water rushed past me, I knew it was washing my burdens behind me, swirling them downstream like the autumn leaves."
- Steve Ramirez (Casting Forward)
"The river sparkled. Shafts of morning sunlight came through the tree limbs, fog returned home, and it was then that I saw the first rings appear upon the water; like inverted raindrops, the trout rose. A hitchhiker rests upon my hand, tiny mayflies looking for love. Aren’t we all? How perfect they are, each one born of the river and then bursting into the air. Living, loving, and dying, only to return to the river—going home, just like me."
- Ibid
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
-Roderick Haig-Brown
"In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week."
- Louis Rukeyser
"My casts were dialed – I’m generally an impatient angler and don’t pause long enough on my back casts, but not this time. Then it happened. A massive tug and then I watched the line rip through the water ahead of several big air leaps."
- In a 2024 online article by Thomas and Thomas Ambassador, Andy J, Danylchuk, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, UMass Amherst.
"If you have achieved even a level of mediocrity in the sport of fly fishing, you've likely had the help of a mentor to get you there."
- Ross Purnell in TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION, Vol. 56 No. 1,, October-December 2024, publisher/editor, Fly Fisherman Magazine.
"I think my greatest moments in life are family moments, births and marriages."
-Jerry Jones, owner, president, general manager, the Dallas Cowboys.
Bammm!!! (Spotted trout, Cynoscion nebulosus)
Carroll is a fan of U.S. Marine Steve Ramirez, fly fisherman, author (Casting Forward is featured in Mending the Line, Casting Onward, ...) and writes The Seasoned Angler column in Fly Fisherman. (Carroll: "Fly Fisherman Magazine casts a tight loop! Fishermen, conservationists, environmentalists, aquatic entomologists, riparian ecologists, outdoorswomen and outdoorsmen, and nature lovers will suck it down!
All Rights Reserved in the USA and abroad by Carroll F. Burgoon, III.
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