Born and raised on a ranch in Western Nebraska, Will grew up fishing spring creeks in the Pine Ridge of Western Nebraska and Mountains of Eastern Wyoming.  Since then, Will has fished the tailwaters of Tennessee, the Upper Midwest for Smallmouth, Musky and Brook Trout, the Olympic Peninsula for Steelhead, Belize for Bonefish, Tarpon and Permit, and the chalk stone streams of South Central Pennsylvania. Will graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from Chadron State College and enjoys reading Evelyn Waugh, Marilynne Robinson and Wendell Berry.