Scott Sadil is the angling editor for Gray's Sporting Journal. He is the author of six previous books, including the short story collection, Lost in Wyoming, a finalist for the Ken Kesey Oregon Book Award in fiction. Besides publishing short stories, features, and essays in all of the significant fly fishing magazines, Sadil has written the "At The Vise" fly-tying column the past dozen years for California Fly Fisher. He also writes "The Final Wrap" for the back page of Fly Tyer magazine. Raised in California, Sadil now lives in Hood River, Oregon, where, besides fishing and writing, he builds boats, gardens, and dreams of hunting upland birds before he gets too old.