After spending my childhood as an avid warmwater fisherman, I was coaxed back into the sport by my older son, who wanted to attend a local United Fly Tyers meeting in approximately 1994. Now, fly-fishing and fly-tying are year-round activities. When the water is cold I fish for trout in the streams and rivers of Eastern and Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, with occasional trips into Vermont and Maine.  But I still enjoy lazy days as a warmwater fly-fisher, float-tubing during the summer months on local farm ponds near our home in Eastern Massachusetts.  Yes, that's me on the right, at the tying-table.

Fly photography came later, when my wife gave me a 1-megapixel Sony digital camera for Christmas in 2000 and I set it up on a tripod in front of my tying-vise with one low-wattage lamp.  This Web site and those early pictures came to life in the summer of 2001. Many of the pictures are still on these pages.  That first camera was replaced in 2004 with a better performing Nikon digital camera with excellent macro features.

--Peter Frailey