I began tying at age 12 when my dad bought me a fly tying kit.  He probably had visions of me tying flies for him but it was soon destroyed when he saw my imitations. " And what would this be?"  He would say, dubiously fingering my nightmarish creations. 

Dad never taught me to fly fish but showed me everything else he knew about other fishing methods.  But when I watched him fly fish I saw a person that I didn't really know.  He would cast to rising fish with a deftness I still envy.  His whole being was changed, as if nothing else mattered and no cares were on his shoulders.  That is one of the things that attracted me to fly fishing.  Another was my desire to read anything that had pages, so my parents, being wiser than I ever gave them credit for, gave me a Roderick Haig-Brown book to read, "Fisherman's Spring."  I was "hooked" so to speak and never looked back.

I currently live in Fort St John, B.C. and fish whenever I can for everything from trout to pike and walleye.  I wrote a fishing column for the Alaska Highway News for 4 1/2 years.  I teach tying at the local cultural center and spend allot of time looking for new materials to tie with.  I think if they banned fishing tomorrow I would still tie.  I enjoy the art form immensely.