Photo: Liz Steketee

When not on assignment or playing ultimate frisbee, he can be found waist deep in the nearby trout streams of Northern California.

You will need a road atlas, tape, glue, a socket set, vice grips, and the ability to listen to stories and tell stories for hours at a time as you rip through miles of the American west.

One day, we cranked through seven-dozen flies, and there was whiskey involved. Another problem with working through a shop is that you have to play by the rules, something I’m not fond of.

Neoprene redfish beer koozie.

Alaskan grayling on dry flies.

Conway Bowman and Jeff Patterson's juvenile great white mined from "The Dong."

Photo: Jeff Patterson