Todd: In 1992, I got my first driver’s license and immediately set out to the rivers around Issaquah, Washington: the Snoqualimie, the Skykomish, etc. It was the best fishing experience a kid could ever have.įd: How did you get into making fly-fishing videos? Did you have any influences?
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I had more fun out in the sun then, wearing cut-off jean shorts, no shirt, a fishing vest and my six-weight learning how to fish all on my own. Water was cold and the fish were all over the big hopper pattern I was throwing during that hot month of August.
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I bought a bunch of huge Dave’s Hoppers in Livingston, and the Sage DS series rod worked like a charm. The Yellowstone River channelized at this particular spot, and I felt like I had a small, magical piece of the river all to myself. This is where I began fly fishing for real. In fact, it was a simple doublewide that was originally located up at Bridger Ski area and moved to the most incredible little spot on the Yellowstone River. Nothing fancy, a small little cabin right on the river, no running water, just a few beds and nothing flash at all. One of his old SAE fraternity pals from MSU had a place over on the Yellowstone River. My dad grew up in Great Falls, and he had buddies from boyhood and college living in the Bozeman area. I was in 8th grade… My family and I were on our way back to visit Montana on another trip to see old friends. But I really got hooked on fly fishing in the summer of 1990.
This was a big deal it came with a reel, line and leader all set up and ready to go. The first fly rod I was given was a Sage 9’ 6wt DS series rod back in 1989 as a big Christmas gift from my folks. I had no idea what I was doing, and I think I was just catching whitefish, but I was having an absolute ball doing it. My dad brought his fly rod, and I remember spending hours on the Flathead River right outside West Glacier fishing and stalking fish on the crystal clear pools there. The first time that I really spent using a fly rod was a family trip up to Glacier National Park in 1987. It was all spin fishing for trout and steelhead at that point. At the age of 10, I had a few friends who also enjoyed fishing, but we hadn’t learned fly casting yet. This is where we would head every weekend to spend time together on the river. My parents had a cabin in Index, Washington, on the Skykomish River. While growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I lived in Issaquah, Washington… Undeveloped and considered the backwoods of Seattle at that time. I wouldn’t say my dad was an avid angler, but he had all the fly gear from his Montana days, and so I’d see it and became familiar with it as a young boy. I then moved to the Seattle area of the Pacific Northwest in the late 70’s. My folks met each other and married in Bozeman, Montana, while attending college at Montana State University back in the late 60’s, so our family ties originate in Montana. Todd: I was fortunate to have been born in Helena, Montana. Fd: How were your beginnings in fly fishing?
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