Biographies-----------

Christopher P. Travis DDS



Although I played baseball at USC, I followed a path into dentistry and graduated from
USC Dental School and continued on to specialize in Prosthodontics. I have surfed most
my life and make it part of a regimen to surf just about every day to stay in some sort of
shape. I started fly fishing in and around the Mammoth Lakes area of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains and, of course, the addiction took full hold of me. It wasn't enough to fish my
local waters, but branch out and venture to Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington, and Canada. I became interested in steelhead because of their
incredible strength and the beautiful rivers in which they migrate from the oceans to
spawn.

It was an easy change of pace to saltwater fly fish, because the gamefish are so strong and
again, the surroundings are so pleasant. Because I live on the Southern California coast, it
was nice to fly fish for migrating exotic tuna and yellowtail jacks in Northern Mexico.

I also, traveled to the Keys to hunt for tarpon, permit and bonefish. Recently, I have
traveled to South America fishing for peacock bass, golden dorado, sea-run brown trout,
and large trout in Patagonia.

I decided to put something back into mother earth that I so easily enjoyed without much
thought.....So, I talked with a friend who I had been fishing with for quite some time,
George Clark, a Phd. Anthroplogist, who happens to be in the movie industry, and we both
felt making an environmental fly fishing movie or series, was just the right thing to do to get
our point of view across to as many who would listen. Frank Nolan, a first rate cinematographer,
saw our vision and liked it. Thus, the triad was formed which by any standard became somewhat
magical in spirit and action. Thus, "The Smith River....The Last Wild River in California" became
a reality. We hope you enjoy our endeavor, and we are working on other venues to show the public
just how wonderful a place we live in. It needs care and nurturing from all of us, and we need to be
mindful of our actions, so our ecology can function the way it must, to keep us all healthy and alive.

Tight lines,

Chris Travis DDS
Co-director Mammoth Fly Rodders
Secretary, and a Director of North Coast Steelhead Alliance-USA
Life member Trout Unlimited

HOOKED on the Fly’s goal is to present you with world-class, fly-fishing films. Fly-fishing brings us into nature’s meditative majesty as well as its excitement. It renews our souls by remembering our rivers past, while celebrating our present and future course, especially with family and friends. Fly-fishing connects us to ourselves, our earth, and each other. This is our mission. “I went into the woods, because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -- Walden, Henry David Thoreau

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