Team

Smallstreams is first and foremost about the community. .. but it’s also about… well, all things smallstreams.

These folks are the admins and authors in this portal section of smallstreams. The group is loosely organized around being usually-like-minded-when-it-comes-to-fishing (and what else matters?) We are fishers who live all over the world.  Some of us have fished together, some not. What links us is our love for pursuit of the elusive untracked stream filled with peace and enlightenment… or lots of fish… or both. As a group, we try to keep this place interesting, and further the greater group’s love for all things smallstreams…

Gus

I have fished as long as I can remember. No, really. My Father took me out as soon as I’d fit in to the smallest available life jacket when I was two years old or so. I learned to fly fish from my Uncle in Oregon when I was in my early teens, and never looked back. After living most of my life in the West, I now reside in the Texas Hill Country… my streams are plentiful, and the fish, although most of them are green these days, are as well. Being blessed with a pond and stream both within walking distance of my home, I visit them often, and take my own children now…

Gerard

Fly-fishing is my passion. In fact, it’s more than that – it’s my OTHER life! Although I enjoy freshwater flyfishing, I also have an exhilarating zeal for the ocean and the “salty critters” that inhabit them.

I’ve been fortunate to have traveled to a number of international destinations in pursuing my passion. I’ve learned that far-away destinations do offer something different, and if you can make a trip happen then you must do it. However, traveling beyond the borders of your country is not a pre-requisite for enjoying the flyfishing lifestyle to the full or finding good flyfishing action. There are plenty of opportunities in South Africa. All it takes is a little research, followed by action. After all, “flyfishing from a couch” should only be an option when some force majeure prevents you from physically practicing your pursuit.

Opportunity in flyfishing is everything, so make it happen! Life is too short for JUST dreaming.

Satoshi

I’m Japanese. The climate is rather warm here in Japan where I live, and trout are confined to small mountain streams. Like many other boys around the world, I was taught fishing by my father when I was a kid. It wasn’t fly fishing, of course. Back then, very few Japanese people knew the phrase “fly fishing.” By the time I entered college, however, the sport had gained a foothold in this country. As soon as I got a job after graduating from college, I bought the necessary gear. I tied some dry flies by myself according to a book. When I first hooked a tiny trout with one of those flies, I was also hooked on fly fishing. That was decades ago, and I’ve been enjoying this sport ever since. It’s amazing I’ve never tired of it. I might be an experienced fly fisher, but I’m no expert.

My worry now is the decreasing number of fishing seasons left for me as I get older year by year.

Ernest

I live in the Upper Midwest.

My dad took me fishing when I was young, and then I took up small stream trout fishing seriously alone in 1959. I fished with worms and with spinning gear, but I caught more fish with flies. I use all types of flies, but I have the beady close set eyes of a nymph fisherman.

I didn’t know anyone who fished with flies, in those early days. I am self taught. I was both a poor teacher and an indifferent student, but I persevered.

I tie flies. I carve fly rods out of wood. I write stories about people, some of whom fish for trout in streams with artificial flies.

Our three kids are grown. My wife and I live in the woods with a dog and two horses. I drive to the city to work at my day job, but the best lifestyle choice we’ve made is to live in trout country at least twenty miles from the nearest four lane highway.