|  |   Tim Rajeff, Fly Fishing Man
Tim's extensive knowledge of fly rod design and performance stems from his early childhood patronage to the Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club in San Francisco, where he became a young and successful competition caster. Tim has received a gold medal in the World Casting Games in single hand distance as well as winning the national overall fly accuracy and distance championship. Tim first began designing rods in 1980, and was one of the first people to use and adapt graphite fly rods in competition casting.
After spending his youth fishing and casting in California and Oregon Tim’s fishing career took a turn when he got a job working for the Fenwick Fly Fishing School in Montana in 1973. He later made the trek north and began guiding in Alaska in 1985 and eventually developed and built the first Fishing Camp on Russia's Kola Peninsula 60 miles above the Arctic Circle. He spent six years managing the camps before returning to the states in 1994. Upon his return he began working for a premium domestic rod manufacturer, where he worked as head of the engineering department and the Fly Brand Manager. He worked there until 2001 and along the way learned every aspect of fly rod design and manufacturing.
After starting Rajeff Sports in 2001, Tim went on to win the first OLN Fly Fishing Masters competition along with his brother. He continued to stay in front of the TV camera as host of LL Bean's "Guide to the Outdoors", where he has traveled all over the world tossing feathers to fish. Currently, Tim continues to preside over Rajeff Sports, is an active member of the FFF's fly casting board of governor's, and continues to teach fly casting whenever he can.
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