Biography of a k best buy

He is a legend in the fly fishing world for tying flies, and one does not become a legend that way without an uncanny attention to detail. You can get another idea of how precise the craft is by the finest fly tying students Best says he ever had: heart and brain surgeons. He implored reading cover-to-cover. It was time, he says. For plus years, this is where Best tied flies for Orvis and fly shops around the country at a shocking, one-man pace.

Gotta cover my needs, you know. But at least the wings are on straight. He is ever the perfectionist. Best still remembers that first feeling of approval. This was back in Iowa, on the wooden floor of a barn dance. His dad played the banjo, his mom the piano, and he was just a kid playing saxophone. She happened to be beautiful.

A.K. Best is a production fly

One night at a Christmas party, Jan said yes to marrying him. Off they went on to their careers teaching music. Jobs took them to Michigan, where they raised a family and Best kept fishing in his spare time.