Marc and his love of Fall River and Fly Fishing
My love of fly-fishing began on Fall River, in Central Oregon. In my early years my parents and I traveled, in our travels stayed at many different places to fish. My dad and I did a lot of fishing together, and on one stop at Fall River Lodge I fell in love with fly fishing. My dad bought me a JC Higgins fly rod and reel. It’s was the beginning of a life-long love affair with fly fishing.
While teaching in the Sandy School District, I got my start in the fly fishing industry at Stewart’s Custom Tackle. In that time I taught fly tying classes from beginning to advanced. I instructed fly fishing seminars. In those seminars I did in-store demonstrations on knot tying, entomology, reading streams. I co-taught the on-the-river portion (with Doug Stewart) which covered instruction on casting and general fishing techniques.
I was later contacted by ISE Fly Tying Director, Pete Parker, to begin presenting at the International Sportsman Exposition.
From those different opportunities I began doing presentations at fly fishing clubs, and shows.
I currently present to fly fishing clubs and sportsman shows in Oregon and Washington.
I teach a fly fishing schools in Oregon and Washington, as well as with Gary Borger at Clydehurst Ranch Montana.
I have designed and presented power point presentations that highlight different topics. Each and everyone of them embeds techniques, and important information about how to be a successful fly fisher.
As a retired educator I take great pride in my teaching and instruction, in all phases of fly fishing, fly casting and fly tying. I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I see my students cast there first cast, catch their first fish on a lake or river, or tye a fly that they use to catch fish. I have designed a technique to teaching that provides students with instructional methods that build on skill after skill. This approach, no matter what area, builds on each skill moving you to the next skill until you have accomplished the ability to preform that activity(skill) that you set out too. As a Professor of Education at Warner Pacific College I instructed both undergraduate and graduate students in methods and researched techniques to become teachers. I found that teaching them to reflect on both success and failure was a key to becoming a master teacher.
While teaching in the Sandy School District, I got my start in the fly fishing industry at Stewart’s Custom Tackle. In that time I taught fly tying classes from beginning to advanced. I instructed fly fishing seminars. In those seminars I did in-store demonstrations on knot tying, entomology, reading streams. I co-taught the on-the-river portion (with Doug Stewart) which covered instruction on casting and general fishing techniques.
I was later contacted by ISE Fly Tying Director, Pete Parker, to begin presenting at the International Sportsman Exposition.
From those different opportunities I began doing presentations at fly fishing clubs, and shows.
I currently present to fly fishing clubs and sportsman shows in Oregon and Washington.
I teach a fly fishing schools in Oregon and Washington, as well as with Gary Borger at Clydehurst Ranch Montana.
I have designed and presented power point presentations that highlight different topics. Each and everyone of them embeds techniques, and important information about how to be a successful fly fisher.
As a retired educator I take great pride in my teaching and instruction, in all phases of fly fishing, fly casting and fly tying. I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I see my students cast there first cast, catch their first fish on a lake or river, or tye a fly that they use to catch fish. I have designed a technique to teaching that provides students with instructional methods that build on skill after skill. This approach, no matter what area, builds on each skill moving you to the next skill until you have accomplished the ability to preform that activity(skill) that you set out too. As a Professor of Education at Warner Pacific College I instructed both undergraduate and graduate students in methods and researched techniques to become teachers. I found that teaching them to reflect on both success and failure was a key to becoming a master teacher.