Steve Raymond has fished more than sixty years for trout, steelhead, Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon and bonefish in waters of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, Scotland, New Brunswick, Christmas Island, Belize and the Bahamas. He is author of ten non-fiction fly-fishing books, a volume of short fiction, and the history of a Union Civil War regiment. His reviews of fly-fishing books appeared in various publications for more than twenty-five years. He also was editor of two fly-fishing magazines, The Flyfisher and Fly Fishing in Salt Waters. Now retired after a thirty-year career as a reporter, editor and manager at The Seattle Times, he and his wife, Joan, live on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound.