My first FAOL contact was with Rick Z, by means of private email, asking him for advice on some subject after I'd read about a hundred of his Panfish stories that got me so wired to go fly fishing that I was pinging off the walls. Rick's my Main Man; he goes fishing every chance he gets, he was catching panfish and relating straigtforward info about stuff I wanted to know, about how a person might catch panfish.

A few weeks later I was re-geared with different tackle and then jumped back into the sport for my third crack at it. Rick's stories helped me bigtime; I started catching fish virtually from the first cast.

Soon after, my second contact was with FAOL co-publisher Deanna Birkholm, asking her if I might possibly contribute some stories to this site? The outdoor writer in me had gotten lured out of seclusion, I'd been hooked and hoped I'd get pulled in and landed. I was.


Joe
"Better small than not at all."