Ian Forbes


Ian Forbes has been retired for 2 years after spending 40 years in the Forest Industry of British Columbia. He has traveled extensively on fishing trips across North America, and takes a yearly trip to New Zealand and Asia. He fishes an average of over 100 days a year. He has been an outdoor writer since the 1960s and an illustrator for various magazines and books. His paintings hang in galleries and homes across North America. He has been a fly tier and innovator since 1954, even before he seriously fly fished. He has also been a hunter for most of his life and harvests his own fly tying materials.

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