A. G. Palmer

Art was brought up on a farm in upstate New York. He learned his skills as an angler and woodsman from his father. His life long love of fly fishing began early with an old cane rod of his father's. Along the way he had three daughters who are now grown with families of their own, and supplied him with 6 grandchildren to spoil and entrance with stories, he swears some are even true. He has fished from one coast to the other, guided deer and elk hunts in the Rockies; even done some gold prospecting along the way stockpiling a list of characters and tales to pass on. He retired from making a living in the Mental Health field to pursue his avocation as an angler. He taught himself the craft of bamboo fly rod building restoring old fly rods and still pursues tying the perfect dry fly. He remains here in the Hudson Valley with his dog Dolly and two freeloading cats close to the Catskills and it's fabled streams.