I have been an avid fly tyer and fly fisherman for over 25 years. I have fished all my life, having learned how to be a patient angler from my grandfather while drowning worms and Bee Jay stink bait on farm ponds on my summer visits to rural Kansas.
I owe my love of fishing to my grandpa, who used to spend a lot of time taking me fishing on farm ponds as a child during my summer visit in rural Kansas.
I always wanted to learn fly fishing, but never knew where to begin. Here I am spin fishing for trout – dreaming of fly fishing, but not sure where to start.
Finally Fly Fishing! – In college, my lab mates got me into fly fishing and fly tying, and I’ve been addicted ever since. In college, I was excited to be working in a biomedical research lab in pursuit of another passion, science. It was at this time that I got into fly fishing. A group of my lab buddies were avid fly fishermen and fly tyers. When the opportunity to learn fly fishing and fly tying from them came up, I jumped at it. I spent much of my free time in college tying flies and fishing small mountain streams in Northern New Mexico.
A Nice Lake Champlain Smallie – fell for a Deer Hair Popper. When I moved to Vermont to go to graduate school to get my PhD in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, I became a warm water fly fishing addict. Lake Champlain presents a veritable paradise for the fly fisherman. You can make 10 different casts, and catch 10 different species, including Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Rock Bass, Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Crappie, Walleye, and many others! One of my first fly tying interests was working with deer hair, so I found great enjoyment tying deer hair bugs and poppers for all the wonderful species in Lake Champlain.
Technical Tyer combines my passions for science and fly tying/fishing.
