Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune in Franklin, Louisiana. He has been working in newspaper since age 15, and learned fly fishing as a youngster from his father, who was the last bloodline chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. He still resides on the Chitimacha Reservation in Louisiana, and is also half French-Acadian, or Cajun. When not pursuing bass or bluegill with a fly rod, preferrably bamboo, he may be found building wooden boats or woodworking in his small shop.