Austin McK. Francis is a fly-fishing historian and a business communications consultant. He has written or edited four previous books on fly fishing. He and his wife, Ross, live in New York City and fly fish in the Catskill Mountains, where they have a home in the Beaverkill valley.
Enrico Ferorelli is a world-renowned photographer and regular contributor to National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. Also an avid flyfisher, he and his wife, Martha, and their two children live in New York City and Norfolk, Connecticut.