About Skip Morris...

Skip Morris is among the most prolific fly-fishing and fly-tying authors alive—his name is known to anglers around the world.

Noted fly fishing author and speaker,
Skip Morris

He has written twenty-one books on fly fishing and tying, including the established standard beginning fly tier's volume Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple, and The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes (with lake-fishing guru Brian Chan), Concise Handbook of Fly Tying, and Fly Fisher's Guide to Western River Hatches.

His videos and DVD's range from instruction for tying nymphs, to tying bass flies, to tying and fishing flies for sea-run cutthroat trout.

Skip has published over 300 articles on fly fishing and tying in magazines from Fly Fisherman to American Angler. For three years he was among the hosts of the "Fly-Fish Television Magazine" show.


As a speaker and clinician, Skip is well-known as an entertaining, concise, and knowledgeable presenter, with a sly sense of humor and an easygoing manner that draws in the audience.

Here are just a few of the places in which he has spoken: Los Angeles, Toronto, Michigan, Stockholm, Texas, Edmonton, Alabama.

Here are Skip's latest book releases:

Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams, 2nd edition

Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them (2nd edition) (an e-book on Amazon)

500 Trout Streams; a collection of fly fishing essays by Skip Morris.

500 Trout Streams (an e-book on Amazon)

365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish by Skip Morris

365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish (Stackpole Books)

Here's a list of all of Skip's books:

Fly Tying Made
Clear and Simple

• Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them (ebook on Amazon)


• Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them, 2nd edition (ebook on Amazon)


• 500 Trout Streams (an ebook on Amazon)


• 365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish (Stackpole Books)


• Survival Guide for Beginning Fly Anglers (2 DVD's included)


• The Salmonfly: Guide to the Dream Hatch of the West (Stackpole Books; QR codes for extra videos included)


• Tactics for Trout (Stackpole Books; QR codes for extra videos included)


• Seasons for Trout (Stackpole Books; QR codes for extra videos included)


• Trout Flies for Rivers: Patterns from the West that Work Everywhere


• Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes


• Fly Fishing: Trout Rivers I


• The Art of Tying the Nymph


• The Art of Tying the Dry Fly


• Tying Foam Flies


• The Custom Graphite Fly Rod


• Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple


• Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple 2: Advanced Techniques


• The Art of Tying the Bass Fly


• The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, 2nd edition


• Fly Fisher's Guide to Western River Hatches


• Concise Handbook of Fly Tying


• Learn to Tie Flies

And these are Skip's DVD's:

• Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple


• The Art of Tying the Nymph


• The Art of Tying the Bass Fly


• Flies for Sea-run Cutthroat Trout

. . .and Carol Ann Morris. . .

Fly fishing speaker, photographer,
videographer, and artist Carol Ann Morris

Skip's wife, Carol Ann Morris, is a speaker, photographer, videographer, and artist (watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, clay, jewelry) who partners with 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 PowerPoint presentations, and has performed these shows at fly fishing clubs and sportsmans events, including virtual presentations by Zoom. These shows are:

• Bugs and Fishes (an in-depth look at the origins of trout, the principles of "KeepFishWet", and a summary of the most important western insect hatches)


• Searun Cutthroat: Phantom of the OP (Olympic Peninsula)— looking at the habits and mystery surrounding the coastal cutthroat trout (aka the searun cutthroat), and how to fish for them (Carol surveyed several local experts on their personal experience with this native trout for this talk)


• The Creative Journey: Drawing on the Artist Within (Carol's perspective on her journey into fly fishing art)

Carol is also the webmaster for their website, designing the layout and adding new information as it becomes available.

Where they live:

Skip and Carol live with their little tortie cat Olive on Washington's lush Olympic Peninsula where the fishing opportunities in rivers, lakes, along the beaches, and out in the open saltwater are varied and abundant.