GARY GRAHAM

Graham, 67, is a supremely skilled saltwater angler who holds several fly fishing world records and won the prestigious Angler of the Year award from the Tuna Club. A pioneer of fly fishing in Baja, Graham has been instrumental in finding new fisheries and developing new techniques, all of which he has shared directly with his clients as well as through his speaking, photography and writing.

With his wife, Yvonne, he founded Friends of Fishing. This is a nonprofit organization created to take disadvantaged children enrolled in Big Brothers and Big Sisters of San Diego County fishing and teach them about the ocean. A longtime conservationist, Graham donated proceeds from his paid marlin-fishing seminars to the white sea bass restoration project, one of the great success stories in saltwater fishery rehabilitation.

Since 1993, Gary and Yvonne have owned Baja on the Fly, a fly fishing expedition company in Baja California, which has hosted more than 2,000 fly fishing clients in several locations in Baja and mainland Mexico.