"Been fishing all my life, starting in April 1928, when mother fell in the river three weeks before I was born.  Fished with a hand line behind the boat in the beginning.  My first rod was a telescoping steel fly rod which I used to fish worms and grasshoppers. 

Moved to Ontario 1942 where I learned to fish all over again for bass, walleye, sunfish and perch.  Returned to Alberta in 1957 to re-learn trout fishing and eventually fly fishing.  I am a self taught fly fisherman as there were no schools, fly shops or anyone I knew to learn from. 

I was a partner in Calgary's first full fly shop for twelve years where I taught fly fishing, rod building, and fly tying.  I am now retired after suffered a heart attack and bypass, but spend as many days as I see fit enjoying the streams of Alberta, B.C. and Montana.  

My other major hobbies are wildflowers and photography.  These two help me through the spring runoff each year.  I have also taken to pike fishing with a fly the last couple of years, something else to get me outdoors. 

I am responsible for popularizing Frenchman's Creek which I borrowed from the late Robert Traver many years ago.  He said "I will call it Frenchman's Creek because that is not the name of it". 

I am married to a very understanding lady (49yrs).  We have one daughter, five grand children and four great grand children.  They all live here in Calgary."