Since returning from Alberta in 2008, I have been involved with ARA as Secretary, a Board Member and now President. I started fly tying in 1967, the same year I caught my first salmon on the Glenholme River. Five years after that I took up rod building. My passion is swinging large flies for Atlantic salmon. I am excited about the direction ARA is taking, with our focus being on river habitat and restoration. Hope to see you on the river!

Daniel has been a very dedicated member of the ARA, playing a crucial role connecting the youth in the local communities with the outdoors through angling. Leveraging connection made through this young family has organized educational sessions with the 4-H Great Outdoors program where he and other ARA volunteers introduce youth to fly tying, casting and have gotten groups out into the river to try their hand at fly fishing, with great success.

I have been an avid angler for 60 years and it all began by drowning worms in brooks and streams on PEI and Cape Breton with my father. A great deal of time of my life has been dedicated, in one way or another to the conservation efforts of Atlantic Salmon and Brook Trout and the restoration of freshwater ecosystems they inhabit. I have been a member of the ARA since it’s inception and continue to stand with the association’s mandate and mission. In 2021, after serving 38 years, I retired from the Nova Scotia Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture Inland Fisheries Division in various positions; technician, fish hatchery supervisor and manager of fisheries enhancement. I had also served for 12 years on the Nova Scotia Advisory Committee for The Foundation for the Conservation of Atlantic Salmon, of which I retired in 2025. I now enjoy fly tying in my retirement and I can still handle a busy BBQ at the ARA’s Fishing Derby with just my pocket knife and 150 burgers and hot-dogs.