Tom

Name (first only):

Tom

Height:

70 inches

Weight:

240 lbs.

Age:

76

Years of Fishing Experience:

60 plus years fly fishing

Hometown:

Chatham, New Jersey (22 miles outside of New York City)

Currently Residing In:

Blue Springs, MO

Earliest Fishing Memory:

“We used to go down and fish for sunfish and a pickerel hit the sunfish I had on and he broke the reed pole I had but I landed him.”

Favorite Fishing Story:

“I went to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan when I was going to school and went to the Two Hearted River in 1956.  I had my trusty Shakespeare Wonderod and rubber waders.  I caught a monster 4 pound female steelhead.  I was walking past a fishing camp and a guy told me the fish was too small and a female and that I shouldn’t have kept it.  He said that I had better get it up to the cook in the fish camp and to cook it up.”

Favorite Fishing Partner:

James G. Parker (deceased)

One person you would like to fish with (dead or alive):

“The people I fish with already.  My regular fishing partners.”

Who/What got you started fishing?

“My older brother.”

What is your favorite fishing spot in Missouri?

“Early morning at Odessa City Lake, fishing alone.”

What is your favorite lure/fly/technique?

Popping bugs

What is your favorite species to fish for?

Panfish

What percent of the time do you catch and release?

“Except when others ask me for some fish.”

What is the weirdest thing that you have seen on the water?

“Watching a guy launch a big boat that didn’t belong on Lone Jack Lake.  It was attached to a big truck and it rolled in the water.”

What is one place that you want to fish in Missouri, but haven’t before?

“A clear smallmouth stream in southern Missouri.”