"Passing the torch" Alan and grandson Grant.		ABOUT THE ARTIST     "But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.   Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.   Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,   In whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?”    Job 12: 7-10

It began in 1959 with a two week family vacation.  Two fantastic weeks camping and fishing on Spavinaw Creek…(as seen on the home page)...a little known crystal clear stream in northeastern Oklahoma.  Brownies, as they called them, and bluegills and a ten year old kid was hooked on fly fishing. 
The kid was also hooked on the streamside vegetation – witness the two broken tips of Dad’s best bamboo fly rod.  But Dad was patient…and practical. The kid’s next rod was a cheap fiberglass model.
His parents were both fly fishers and he and his brothers never complained about the weekend jaunts through the Ozarks and the annual trips to Montana and Wyoming.
His teenage friends thought he was weird (fly fishing wasn’t cool yet) and some adults called it a miss-spent youth.  Fifty years later, he calls it fantastic.  In between fishing trips he became a goldsmith and jewelry designer, a sculptor and painter, a salesman and business executive.  But he has never lost his love of clear water, tight casts and rising fish.
Alan Folger’s travels have taken him from the Ozarks and through the Rockies to his current locale - the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.  A fabulous location where he’s allowed to practice two of his passions – adding to his own reservoir of clear water memories and adding a potential heirloom to yours.