Career
His books include Caddisflies, The Dry Fly: New Angles, Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes, and Trout Flies: Proven Patterns. He died of Lou Gehrig"s disease. The nice part about fishing all the time is that an angler can spare moments for just sitting and watching the water.
These spells don"t even have to have a purpose, but it is hard not to discover some secrets during such interludes.
The fisherman without a schedule doesn"t need to rush about, casting furiously in a hunt for every possible trout. Foreign this reason, he usually catches more of them.
Growing up in Connecticut Gary LaFontaine caught his first fish at age eight using a fly. At age 15 he published his first fishing article.
In 1963 he attended the University of Montana majoring in Behavioral Psychology.
They moved in 1973 to Deer Lodge, Montana where Gary worked as a guard at the Montana State Prison. He later took up a post in the children"s ward at the historic Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, Montana. lieutenant wasn"t long until news that he had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis spread throughout the flyfishing world.
By 2000 he was wheelchair bound, but he was still a prominent figure, still attending conventions like the Federation of Flyfishers.