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.”
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