The passing of Wai Yun Syn

Dr Wai Yun Syn     1932-2013 I think it was the late 80’s when my Uncle Yun, the last of my dad’s generation of Syn Brothers that fished was diagnosed with Cardiomegaly and given only a few years to live. It was Uncle Yun that catalyzed my love of fly fishing when he gave me a…

In Memory of my dad…

On  July 31st  2006,  my father passed away from complications during heart surgery to repair a regurgitating mitral valve at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco.  He was 79 years old and had been suffering from congestive heart failure for months prior to the surgery.   He is missed  and we think of him often. In Memory…