I'm new to this BB but old to fly fishing and fly fishing on the internet. I've fished all my life starting in the early 1950's, I caught my first trout at about age 9 in New Jersey, USA.

I have lived in every time zone in the USA and now I reside in the midwestern USA in the State of Wisconsin. I started fly fishing in the 1970's and learned from Gary Borger. We are now good friends. I retired back in 1999 at the age of 55 from my medical practice and have not looked back. I still get job offers but they go into the circular file.

I got into writing about fly fishing on the internet back in the 1980's before the WWW and Netscape Navigator. I was one of 100 test families connected by 24K dial up modem (anyone remember those?) to the University of Wisconsin Internet backbone in my city.

I have an undergraduate and medical degree from Stanford University, but it was my computer background that got me chosen. I worked during my summers off from Stanford by programming a GE mainframe for Hughes Aircraft, a defense contractor in California.

I signed up on the Flyfish@ mailing list soon after that. As far as I know it was the very first mailing list for fly fishers in the USA. Email was all we fly fishers had. No photos or videos or blogs. Just some guys and gals around a computer emailing each other as if we were sitting at a fly shop and exchanging views. I had a 13 inch CRT screen with green phosphor on a black background. There were no icons, graphics, a mouse or spell check. I was asked to write the Basic Fly Fishing FAQs for Flyfish@ by the list owner in the 1990s.

I found this BB about a month ago. I'm glad to meet everyone and hope to stay awhile. I don't know that much about fishing in Great Britain and especially the lochs you have. But I hope to be able to contribute in other ways and learn about your ways of fly fishing.

Henry Kanemoto

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Silver Creek- "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"....Szent-Gyorgy

Welcome Henry,
but immediate point of order!
Lochs only exist in Scotland.
Lakes in England and Wales!.
Loughs in Northern Ireland!
Kindest regards
Bert

Welcome to the forum Henry. Enjoy the cruise..

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"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
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Welcome Henry, you've already helped/advised me on the casting thread. Thank you.

Kanemoto was a famous swordsmith, any relation?

Sean

I was told that my family in Japan was Sumurai. Until recently, my mother's family lived in the same home since the 1300's. It kind of give me perspective to how young the USA is.

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Silver Creek- "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"....Szent-Gyorgy

Interesting!!

Henry

I've sent a friend request hope you don't mind, I feel I could learn a lot from you, about fly fishing. Also you might have the odd Katana kicking about in your loft. They're not worth much, honest

Sean

Hello Henry & welcome

Hi Henry;

Welcome on board!

Terry

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Hi Henry,

Welcome. I too am a former FF@ member. I was active from 2000-2005 or so and participated in more than a few swaps and whatnot. I wish I had time to get active on the list again, but I don't. I think I'm still subscribed, but in nomail mode.

I'm sure you'll be a great contributer over here. There is a lot of knowledge on this board, your challenge will be translating it. I've been over here for 4 years now and I'm still learning the lingo.

Thanks,
Rick

From a Midwestern neighbor, welcome aboard.

It's good that we have this board to talk about fishing because Lord knows you'd have to be insane to be out there actually fishing in this heat! 103 F as the official temp yesterday in St. Paul.

Whereabouts in Wisconsin?

Grouse