	Hello everyone! I'd like to thank you for taking the time to visit my site and welcome you to my Photo Gallery and testimonial page. Guiding & selling flies to my customers is rewarding in many aspects. From the time I put the hook in the vice dreams are drowning my thoughts, visions of smiles & hearing cheers as trophy fish are put into the net... memories etched to be replayed over in the anglers mind, stories rekindled at a campfire from grandparents to grandkids, father to son. I am honored to share these photos and stories from fellow anglers especially our youth on their first catch not only as a commentary of the quality and affectiveness of my product, but also as a tribute to past and future outings that may bring many more great memories - because building memories and passing them on is what it's all about.

	Mark, Here is an example on what your quality flies do when the right person gets their hands on your patterns! It weighed 13 and 1/2 lbs, striaght from the oak orchard creek in albion new york. Keep up the good work. Elis Cruz

Mark, Here's my first steelhead on an electric glo spawn! Gordon

	Mr. Defrank, I spoke with you earlier in the year regarding which flies to use in the area i flyfished...I have to say that the assortment that you recomended me was MORE than successfull and I have to thank you very much for the help. I am looking into expanding my horizons and I'm going to take a few trips to Erie for steelhead. ... any help you could give regarding equipment, flies, fishing spots would be extremely helpful. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Joseph

Hey Mark - I think I told you that I was going to the Elk with my cousins for the first time this week. We fished downstream from Follys on Monday morning, and upstream from Streuchen Flats Monday afternoon. Tuesday morning we fished upstream from Follys. What an amazing trip - I guess we hit it at just the right time. This really screwed up my idea of what a day of steelhead fishing is supposed to be like! I caught fish on several of your flies - the chartreuse egg that's tied around a pink middle got a couple, and one of the freebies you gave me scored - I looked on eBay, and I see that it was one of your Mad Albino Stones. I watched a nice little hen move over about a foot to eat it - I got a couple of nice jumps out of her (she's the one I'm holding up in the picture).

	And coolest of all, the last one I hooked & landed took one of your streamers - a gold body with some olive rabbit fur, I think. (She's the one in the water that I'm about to unhook). That was my first steelie on a streamer. You'll probably recognize the pool in the picture where my cousin & I are both hooked up - it's maybe a mile or a mile and a half upstream from Follys. We hiked quite a ways to get away from other folks, and it really paid off. I'm guessing there were 25 steelhead in the pool, and you can see how clear it was. It was awesome just watching them. Hope you like the pics - Keith

I banged these three coastal steelhead on defrank flies. Not only did they take the fly they took the top one. I will soon start fishing them on the bottom which should be even better Tom In California


Video of Daniel's first trout on a dry fly.
	Don was all smiles after landing this 10 lb. fresh hen from the swift currents of the Cattaraugus Creek, NY. What a fight !! It took him well into his backing.
Jeff ( AKA Snap ) with a nice bow on the Casselman River He landed it using a 1 weight. Nice fish Jeff!
	Don with a dandy brown from the Casselman River.
Charlie poised to strike !!
	Charlie ( AKA Cosmo ) with a colorful brown on the Casselman River.
It was a beautiful sunny day for Bob the slayer. One of many browns. Nice job Bob !!
	It was a day slated on Bob's calander to fish with his best friend, unfortunetly he past away prior to. Bob chose to fish that day in honor and memory of "Chick" and what a day it was. Charles "Chick" Marchand Born 7 / 29 / 48 Went to flyfishers paradise on 4 / 12 / 05 and laid to rest on the opening day of trout season. Chick was battling cancer for about the last year of his life, but his passion for flyfishing gave him peace of mind, up to his last night with us he sat at the vise to tie a dry fly.
Don with a nice healthy "Yough" brown taken on a tan caddis emerger.
	Don with another nice brown from the "Yough".
Here's a nice healthy Yough River Bow.
	Ron relaxes as he ties on one of his creations
Al in Canadaway winter 2004. l said "I love steelheadin!" Way to go Al......!! See you in 2005

Video of Don on the Catt