Hello, fly fishers and tyers, and welcome to my Internet site! For those of you who don't know me, here's a brief bio sketch. Born: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. A while ago… Worked: AT&T most of adult life until retirement in 1984; freelance writer, photographer, speaker and teacher of fly fishing and fly tying since then. Fished: Since I was a kid in rural Dutchess County, east of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. Got into "serious" trout-fishing circa 1953 [worms & minnows]. Started fly-fishing in 1955 [badly]. Started tying flies in 1959 [clumsily]. Decided to stick with The sport anyway, thus wasting my life [joyously]. In recent years, fly-fishing has taken me from Alaska's trout and salmon wonderland to Iceland's geysers and glaciers to England's legendary chalk streams to Russia's Kola Peninsula, where Atlantic salmon abound. Montana has become a sort of second home. I've also spent a couple of weeks in New Zealand. I've authored a number of books, done a lot of freelance writing for various magazines, and currently have regular columns in American Angler and Fly Tyer magazines. I've had probably six or seven thousand of my photographs published. I also do angling-related slide programs and teach fly tying and fishing all over the U.S.A., Canada, England, Scandinavia, and Russia. In addition, I was featured in a 1/2 hour television segment about Atlantic salmon fishing in Russia, which has been aired on ESPN on Jerry McKinnis' Fishin' Hole numerous times. In 1993, I managed a salmon-fishing program in Russia on the Pana/Varzuga river system, and in 1996 and 1997, I managed another such program on the Yokanga, another magnificent Russian salmon river. I've even learned to speak Russian, am married to a beautiful Russian lady, and have assumed guardianship of her son Yuri.