Fly Fishing & Tying Resume` for: Don Bastian 1740 St. Michael’s Road Cogan Station PA 17728-8678 June 2006 e-mail: dbastian@chilitech.net phone: 570-998-2481 Featured author of Ray Bergman biography in Forgotten Flies, (April 2000) published by the Complete Sportsman in Westborough, MA. Don has approximately 765 flies published in Forgotten Flies including 499 classic wet flies in the Bergman section, and 265 additional streamers and bucktails in the chapter titled, "Checklist of Streamers and Bucktails." Don Bastian has three fly tying DVD’s available. His first, Tying Classic Wet Flies, was released in November 2004. The latest additions, Advanced Classic Wet Flies, and Traditional Streamers and Bucktails, were released in August 2007 and are part of the “New Hooked on Fly Tying” series by Bennett-Watt Entertainment, Inc. All three titles are available directly from Don. Many of Don’s classic wet flies, streamers, and traditional drys were featured in Art of Angling Journal, published by Complete Sportsman. Hundreds of Don’s flies are also published on the Internet at www.rareandunusual.com/troutwetflies.htm A full-page color plate of fifteen classic wet fly patterns from Trout by Ray Bergman, tied by Don Bastian, is included in the Complete Sportsman's book Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials - Volume II, (October 1997). Member Whiting Farms Pro team, member Regal Vise Pro team. Forty-three years of fly fishing and fly tying experience. Trout Unlimited member since 1974 and member Catskill Fly Tyers Guild. Don completed a ten frame set of 483 classic wet flies reproduced from the color plates of Trout (1938) and other books by Ray Bergman; this set is on permanent display at Clyde’s Tower Oaks Restaurant in Rockville, MD. Sixteen seasons experience as a Pennsylvania fly fishing guide. Twelve years commercial fly tying experience. Operator of Bastian's Angling Specialties (mail-order) since 1993. Organized and instructed fly tying classes for Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited in Williamsport, PA. Fly tying instructor for twenty years. Teaches classes at fly shops and other fishing club venues. Published in Fly Tyer Magazine - “Feathered Splendor,” September 2006, also published in Fly Fisherman Magazine, Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide, Pennsylvania Angler, Ontario Out-of-Doors, and Fly Fusion. Instructor and demonstrator at various fly tying forums, classes, and Fly Fishing Shows. Participating fly tier at the invitational International Fly Tying Symposium in New Jersey since 1993. Featured fly tyer at LL Bean Spring Fishing Expo 2006, Freeport, Maine. Fly fishing experience for trout, land-locked salmon, smallmouth and largemouth bass, panfish, steelhead, pike, and salt-water species of striped bass, shad, and bluefish. Has fished in Canada, England, Montana, Wyoming, northeastern US; most of Don's fly fishing experience has been accumulated on the streams in his home state of Pennsylvania. Twenty five years experience amateur outdoor photography, primarily fly fishing images. Don has been presenting fly fishing slide programs and lectures for over 20 years. Tying trout flies a specialty, particularly classic wet flies. Teaches fly-tying instructional methods with intense focus on detail, especially trouble-shooting techniques and procedures that are material-specific. Married over 33 years; wife Lou Anne was deceased on February 22, 2007. Two daughters: Kim - 29, and Lyneah - 27. Don and his wife sang in a gospel quartet called the Agape Singers for 27 years and made one recording that was recently converted into a CD. Interestingly enough, as life has progressed, Don made contact with a childhood sweetheart through a newspaper review about a fly tying class he taught at The Evening Rise Fly Shop in Lancaster County, PA, in March 2006. Jann Breon Deibert of Mountville, PA, and Don Bastian were both Williamsport natives, living one block away from each other. She and Don were in homeroom together through 5th grade at Henry Clay Elementary School. Even as children there was more than just friendship between them. Jann’s family moved away in January 1964 and there was no contact between them until an article by the local sportswriter reviewing Don’s fly tying class appeared in the Lancaster Sunday News. Her father phoned Jann and informed her, “Hey, your old boyfriend is in the paper.” Jann contacted the writer for information and sent Don an e-mail. Initial contact at the time led to them communicating via e-mail as they recalled old times and childhood memories. Following the illness and passing of his wife, Jann and Don renewed their acquaintance and began a relationship that progressed through e-mail, telephone, personal visits, and during last summer they fell in love. They were engaged over the holidays in December 2007. A June 14, 2008 sentimental wedding ceremony is being planned in Williamsport’s Historic Residential District on the spacious Victorian front porch at Don’s former childhood home where Jann and Don spent time together as care-free children over forty years ago. Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st. Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st.