Director of Penn Fishing University program, including on-the-water sessions in Santa Cruz, San Diego and Baja's East Cape.

Tournament Director of Penn International Grand Slam events in Sitka, Alaska and Baja's East Cape.

Ranked among the "Top 30 anglers in the West" by Western Outdoors magazine.

Featured seminar speaker at Fred Hall/American Sportfishing Association, and International Sportsmen's Exposition shows.

Member of organizing committee for world's largest "Hooked On Fishing, Not On Drugs" children's event [received personal certificate of recognition from US Congress for this work].

Has caught 221 different species of fish on rod and reel.

Author of "Fishing Encyclopedia" column in Pacific Coast Sportfishing magazine, and has published articles and photographs in numerous other fishing publications.

Known to radio audiences in Northern California as "Senor Tuna", and in Southern California as "The Walking Encyclopedia of Fishing".

Favorite fish- Wahoo and roosterfish.

Favorite Penn reel- 113HN Baja Special.

Favorite technique- Surface iron for yellowtail

First Penn reel purchased- 65 Long Beach in 1966. [Lost it overboard in 1967 in Santa Monica Bay, replaced with a Penn 500 which I still have!].