Daiichi Pro Staff (Page 3)

Skip Morris: Daiichi Pro Staff

Skip Morris

A prolific writer, Skip Morris is author of nine books to date on fly-fishing and fly-tying topics, and writes columns in two fly-fishing magazines.  When neither fishing nor writing, he often speaks at sportsmen’s shows and fly clubs and, with his wife Carol, is among the hosts of the FlyFish Television Magazine show. His professional life is evenly divided between fly-fishing and jazz guitar, and he writes the “Player to Player” column in Just Jazz Guitar magazine.

Jack Mickievicz: Daiich Pro Staff

Jack Mickievicz
Jack`s Tackle
8 Heather Lance
Douglasville, PA. 19518
http://www.geocities.com/fluebinder_19518
fluebinder@icdc.com

Jack Mickievicz started commercial tying at the age of 12, and later opened a fly shop in 1968.  He developed the spring wire bobbin in 1969, Wing Burners in 1970, co-designed the Renzetti presentation vice, and introduced prepared dubbing to the fly tying market somewhere in the early 70s.

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Charlie Meck: Daiichi Pro Staff with Bryan Meck

Charlie Meck
Fairbrook Drive
Penn. Furnace PA 16865
814-237-3979
CharlesMeck@Netscape.Net
http://www.CharlesMeck.com

Pictured is Charlie Meck and his son, Bryan C. Meck.  Bryan has fished in 15 states, helped co-author Mid-Atlantic Trout Streams and Their Hatches, and has written articles in his father’s latest two books, The Hatches Made Simple and 101 Innovative Fly Tying Techniques.  Charlie has written 12 books on fly fishing and has fished in almost every state and location in the world.

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Terry McLoughlin: Daiichi Pro Staff

Terry McLoughlin
c/o Port Royal
3301 West Central Avenue
Toledo, OH. 43606
419-537-1491

Terry McLoughlin is a self-taught fly tier with 22 years of experience.  His specialty is midge tying, with a preference for tying the smallest of flies.  He has demonstrated and taught midge-tying classes at 3 FFF Conclaves.  Terry’s favorite fly to tie is the Humpy Midge sizes 20 – 28.  This pattern was recently published in Dry Fly Patterns for the New Millennium.  He has tied commercially in the past, but now he teaches fly-casting and fly-tying classes at Port Royal Flyfishing Outfitters, where he is one of the managers.  Since 1991, his choice of hooks has always been Daiichi because of their sharpness, strength and variety of styles, especially in the smaller sizes.   If you are interested in more information or conversation about midge tying, Terry would like you to contact him at the following address:  Terry McLoughlin 3012 Sherbrooke Rd. Toledo, Ohio 43606 419-480-1538 – after 6 pm.

Jim Malo: Daiichi Pro Staff

Jim Malo

Jim began tying flies back in the 1950’s during the long winter seasons.  Whenever there was a big snow storm, Jim would tie until the wee hours of the morning as it was certain to have no school that day.  Dry flies were the order of the day and those Bass were going to be on guard as the bugs often attracted eight pounders in Lake Choggagoggmanchoggagoggchabunagunagogg; commonly known as Webster Lake.
Then early in April, Jim made the trek to Worcester’s Greenwood Street, to Paul Kukonen’s fly shop.  This was a blessing in disguise, as Paul actually sat and taught Jim the proper sequence in the tying process.  From then on, the rest was history. Beautiful dry flies and streamers made their way onto the waters of Maine and Massachusetts.
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Darrel Martin: Daiichi Pro Staff

Darrel Martin
7410 48th Avenue East
Tacoma, WA. 98443
253-531-6480

Darrel is a contributing editor for Fly Rod & Reel magazine.  He has published numerous articles, artwork and photography on various aspects of fly fishing in the major fly fishing magazines.  He has also published eight books on flyfishing, including Imitations, The Waterlogue: A Fly Fishers` Workbook(1981), Fly Tyer`s Sketchbook (1981), and Fly Tying Methods (1987) which won the 1987 Book of the Year award presented by the United Fly Tyers of America.

Darrel has written the definitive book on the small fly: Micopatterns: Tying and Fishing the Small Fly (1994), and a Czech-English Dictionary of Angling. His most recent book is The Fly Fisher`s Illustrated Dictionary (2000).  Darrel is especially fond of chalk streams and spring (more…)

Wayne Luallen: Daiichi Pro Staff

Wayne Luallen
820 South Parkwood St.
Visalia, CA 93277 USA
flybynyt@sbcglobal.net

Clubs and Organizations:   International Federation of Fly Fishers/Life Member, Kaweah Fly Fishers/Life Member

Bio/Experiences:   My fly tying began in August 1974 simply as a way to “inexpensively” supply flies for my fishing, but it was not long before it became much more.   Soon “Buz’s Fly and Tackle” (Buz Buszek’s fly shop) in Visalia, California asked me to tie “custom” orders.   Soon following came invitations to demonstrate fly tying locally as well as at other locations in California.   In 1980 I was invited to tie at the first of what became many Federation of Fly Fishers Conclaves.   Over the years I have been privileged to demonstrate tying as well as teach classes extensively in the United States.   (more…)

Tom Logan: Daiichi Pro Staff

Tom Logan
1167 Greenhill Trace
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
850-942-9776
tomlogan@comcast.net

Tom H. Logan is a certified wildlife biologist from Tallahassee, Florida who makes a living as a private environmental consultant.  He enjoys tying classic trout patterns and fishing them for southern bream and bass in his home waters, as well as for trout in the Smoky Mountains, Sierras andother streams of the western United States.  He also ties Atlantic salmon flies, but has a special interest intying historic and modern soft-hackles and other wet patterns.  Tom teaches fly-tying classes in Tallahassee, has taught tying workshops at international shows and conclavesof the Federation of Fly Fishers and demonstrates fly tying at several FFFconclaves each year.   He also has presented programs on the Laws Pertaining to the Possession and Transportation of Natural Fly Tying Materials.   Tom is a member of the Federation of FlyFishers, Dutch American Alliance of Fly Tyers, The Flydressers Guild andTrout Unlimited. 

Leon Links: Daiichi Pro Staff

Leon Links
Brempark 34
2724 HV Zoetermeer
The Netherlands

0031 (0)793424783
leon.links@planet.nl

Clubs and Organizations: VNV (Vereniging voor Nederlandse Vliegvissers),
GS (Grayling Society)

Leon Links was born in 1953 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. He now lives with partner and daughter in Zoetermeer, close to Amsterdam. For a living he teaches Dutch language and literature.  In the mid-1960s Leon started fishing with flies in Norway during his summer holidays.  This made an immense impression on him.  From those years on he developed himself as a passionate fly fisher in his own country and abroad.  He has a preference for river fishing for trout and grayling. His favorite rivers are to be found in Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain and Belgium.

Besides actual fly fishing, Leon is fond of fly tying, making photos of fly fishing objects, collecting and reading fly fishing books and writing articles for several magazines.  Leon has been a member of the editorial staff of De Nederlandse Vliegvisser, the Dutch fly-fishing magazine, for more than 25 years, specializing on book reviews and fly tying.  His articles are being published in Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland, England, Italy and South-Africa as well.  Besides that, Leon contributed to several fly fishing and fly tying books.
In 2002 his book Tying Flies with CDC was published by Merlin Unwin (UK) and Stackpole Books (USA).  Leon specializes in tying CDC flies and several other types of flies, traditional and innovative.  He sometimes does talks, workshops and demonstrations.  Actual fly fishing stays his main interest though.  Together with his fishing pal and close friend Hans van Klinken, Leon does several smaller and bigger projects like working on a website and making a new book.

Why Daiichi:  Leon prefers Daiichi hooks for several reasons. The quality is just outstanding, Daiichi hooks are sharp and never break. Daiichi has all models fly tiers need, some of them are unique like the new Klinkhamer and bomber hooks. Daiichi, moreover, listens very seriously when customers have requests or suggestions for improvement.

Bob Larsell: Daiichi Pro Staff

Bob Larsell
56361 Hwy 197
Maupin OR 97037
503-803-3628
rlarsell@aol.com

Bob Larsell was reccomended to us by Dave Roberts.  He demonstrates at 2-3 shows every year.  He specializes in fishing flies for heavy steelhead.  Bob calls the Deschutes River his home base and he is skilled in the use of two-handed rods.  Bob has us all jealous as he manages to fish about 100 days each year.  Pictured is: Bob Larsell tying at the Northwest Fly Fishing Expo in Seaside, OR.