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This 2011 collage highlights my re-entry into flyfishing upon retirement in January.

The chap at top is my father, fishing for Browns in West Virginia a few years before he died in 1993. He was a wonderful father, a WWII Marine Corps vet of the battle for Guadalcanal, professional forester and a great outsdoorman.

His spirit animates the rest of those shown this year:

Right top is my son-in-law Aaron on Wilson Creek, NC; right bottom is my brother Tom in PA; bottom is our youngest son Jon on the South Platte, CO; bottom left is our oldest son Dave on the Farmington River, CT; and top left I am on the Big Thompson in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Moraine Meadow, CO.

It was a great year!