Ralph Wahl, a founding member of the 4th Corner Fly Fishers (1972) of Bellingham, Washington, may have been the first man to cast a fly for Skagit River winter-run steelhead. "There may have been others but they weren't where I was fishing," Ralph says. Ralph was fishing for summer-run steelhead on the North Fork Stillaguamish whenever he could find the to break away from working at the family store (Wahl's Department Store) in Bellingham.  Ralph had been an obsessed fisherman all of his life.  When the run of Deer Creek natives would begin to stack up in the clear pools of the Stillaguamish below the town of Oso, so would Ralph and hosts of other dedicated steelhead anglers, club members among them.  Many of then would become life-long friends and, unbeknownst to them at the time, steelhead fishing legends. Besides being a passionate fly fisher he is known as a published photographer, fly tier, author, and businessman.