I have been fly fishing for over forty years and tying for more than thirty years.
I learned to fly fish in the 1950's on the legendary streams of New York's Catskills, and since then
have fished in most of the states in America that support trout as well as in several provinces of
Canada and in northern Europe.
I learned to tie in the late 1960s at programs conducted by Theodore Gordon Flyfishers in New York,
where I had the good fortune to be taught by such well known and talented tyers as Ken Bay, Ted
Niemeyer, Ralph Graves, Poul Jorgensen, Bob Nastasi, Gary LaFontaine along with many others equally
as talented but not nearly as well known.
I had the good luck to have run the Field & Stream Book Club for a few years in the mid-seventies,
and that led to seven years of writing a "Fly of the Month" column for Field & Stream as well as
several other articles for Field & Stream, Fly Fisherman, Fly Tyer and other magazines. My "real"
job is in the educational software business.
My wife and I live in Austin, TX. We have two daughters and one son. The son had the good sense
to move to Colorado where he logs a fair amount of time tying flies and exploring trout streams.