About Us

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Brian Frawley (Editor and Publisher) - Brian started fly fishing when he was eight years old and his father bought him a Fenwick glass fly rod.  The first year of fly fishing was hard "I spent my first season untangling knots in my leader, fly line and myself!" Bob Jacobs mentored Brian to develop his fly fishing casting skills on the brown and rainbow trout of upstate NY. Brian also started tying flies at the age of twelve and continues to tie all kinds of patterns today. Thirty-four years later Brian still really enjoys all kinds of fishing but primarily enjoys fly fishing the most. Brian likes to fish at least once a summer in salt water for Stripers on Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod or heading south, fishing for Bonito's under the hot Florida sun. Brian went peacock bass fishing in Florida this past summer and really enjoyed the experience. "If I see it, or hear of it, I want to try it, and that was peacock bass fishing for me!" Brian also enjoys battling the Salmon and Steelhead that visit Michigan Rivers each year. Brian is a member of FFF, Red Cedar Fly Fishers Member, and The International Game Fish Association. Brian is married with two young sons that love to fish!

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Jon "Jonny Quest" Novello (Editor and Media Designer) - Jon just started fly fishing in 2008, and had his first taste on Lake Ovid in Michigan. As they say, "he's hooked." Besides being an incredibility great HTML programmer and designer, Jon is also a clinical social worker/counselor, as well as a drummer in a few bands in the Lansing area. He is married and has three awesome kids, all of whom are now beginning to learn to fish, right along side their dad. He expects that each one of them will soon be much better at the sport than he is. Jon says that the thing he loves most about fishing is the Zen like experience of just being on the water with nothing to think about but getting his line in the water.

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John "Cap'n" Wallace (Editor and Author) - John started fly fishing when he was around 18 for a few years and then his fishing passion lay dormant for many years. Now John has taken back to fly fishing and has started to tie flies for the first time this year. John is frequently dragged around Michigan to fish lakes with Brian, or was doing the dragging himself. He was there for most of the trips Brian took to review lakes for this here website. John is married, and he and his wife have one son.

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Don Hull (Editor and Author for Colorado) - A family picture shows him as a 4 year old, standing with a broken tree branch fishing pole at the base of a maple tree with a circle of water at it's base. This was the first clue that fishing would be a passion that wouldn't end.  Fly tying started at 12. Lure making at 13, rod building 14, serious fly fishing at 17, drift boat building at 38, wooden net building at 45; what is next?. 41 years later a resume includes: teaching  at a Orvis fly shop ,FFF certified casting instructor, FFF Great Lakes Council Presidents award, FFF GLC Educator of the Year, FFF GLC Summer school casting instructor. As a 20 year Red Cedar Fly Fishers member He was a past president of the Red Cedars Fly Fishers. Now located in Castle Rock Colorado, "I endeavor to learn the great trout rich waters of Colorado and surrounding states. Whether it is drifting a size 24 midge larva to a tailwater cutthroat, or hand twisting callibaetas nymphs to scavenging stillwater monsters, fly fishing consumes me. It's perhaps a disease, but worse diseases there are to catch." Don is Married with four adult children.