Fly fishing for about 20 years - but used maggots and floats for roach and rudd and perch since I was 8. Mostly fished Atlantic Salmon with the fly, liked the idea of tying my own flies, graduated to building rods, then to bamboo building to bamboo rod making in 2006, to using silk lines - but still wear high-tech gear for dryness and warmth - no wadding in brogues and +4's. Now spend as much time chasing Nova Scotia brook trout as I do salmon. Presently a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, but due to retire from the firm in 2009. I do not plan to stop working for a while beyond that but do expect to fish any time and any where I can. Really enjoy making rods - but having made a couple on commission found I like my own time table and experimentation. Plus once I get going I am a speed worker not a perfectionist. I want to get the rod fishing and see how it works.

If any one is visiting Nova Scotia I can be found through the firm, and I would be pleased to tell you or show you places to fish - especially when the salmon are about.

not very interesting really!