60 Years A Flyfisher

     I was in my mid forties when I first hired a guide. I was camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, just outside the town of Estes Park. Recently in the Park, the Green Back Trout, declared extinct in...

  I visited Yellowstone for the first time in July or August in 1989. I'm sure of the year because I know it was the year after Yellowstone burned. Actually Yellowstone burns to some degree every year. The Park averages...

      My buddy Dennis and I planned on fishing up a two mile stretch of the Orbeton River, and then camp at the river's confluence with Perham Stream. We had fished this stretch many times, but never all at...

       I pulled into West Yellowstone Montana around 3pm. I had left Western Maine four days earlier and it was a relief to be where I wanted to be. I had driven in from Gillettte, Wyoming after a reasonable...

  I walked into a fly shop for the first time about 60 years or so ago. It wasn't a fly shop so much, as a hardware store that had a pretty good selection of flies tied by a few...