As a lifelong angler Jon Chizmadia grew up near Flint, Michigan fishing for warm water species in the muddy streams of the Saginaw River watershed.  He picked up a fly rod as a young teenager and became completely infatuated.  He hasn’t put it down since. He began catching bass and bluegills locally but traveled to trout water as frequently as possible.  Following a quick stint overseas with the Marine Corp.  Jon returned to Michigan to attend college in the UP where he mostly studied the effects of a dry fly on native brookies.  Today Jon lives in St. Joseph, MI but spends most of his summers at his summer cabin near Grayling. He fishes for everything from Carp to Steelhead and still prefers his fly rod.