Born in Ft. Walton Beach, FL;  I moved with my US Air Force family to Taiwan and Texas for a few years before we settling in the mountains of East Tennessee. Growing up with a father that was retired afforded me the opportunity to travel and camp across the United States and Canada.

Whether in a Canadian Rockies alpine lake or from atop a bridge in the Florida Keys, a fishing pole was my constant companion.

College days were spent at Tennessee State University and The University of Tennessee.  An internship at Walt Disney World lead to me moving back to Florida in 1991.   

The lure of saltwater I had tasted as an adolescent was rekindled when I began making the trek to the Indian River & Mosquito Lagoon in the mid 1990’s fishing out of a beat up old aluminum skiff with a 10 hp outboard kicker.  So began the addiction that has grown to what it is today.  Primarily an inshore fly angler these days, I does not pass up opportunities to fish offshore or in the lake in my back yard.

Always looking to be challenged, I won the Mosquito Lagoon Redbone Tournament as the Champion Fly Angler in 2006.

Since establishing a weekend residence alongside the Mosquito Lagoon in 2006 I  established an annual invitational tournament there, The Oak cHill’n Invitational.  It’s participants exemplify the shallow water angling lifestyle.

My passion for that lifestyle is the motivation behind the art and photography that you will find here at Super Fly Design Studio.