Ken Iwamasa
At-large Board Member
Email: iwamasa@colorado.edu
Ken is the originator of more than twenty unique fly patterns and has published many articles in Fly Fisherman magazine, Fly Tyer Magazine in the US and published articles in Tight Loops magazine and Fly Fisherman Magazine Japan Edition, and La Fourmi, published in France.
Author of the book Iwamasa Flies (1987), the Introduction by Dave Whitlock; contributor to the book Stoneflies by Swisher and Richards, "Trout, Mayfly and the Angler" by Fred Arbona Jr. and “Fly Tyer’s Almanac" by Dave Whitlock. He appears in many books written by authors such as John Gierach, Ted Rosenbauer, and John Randolph, Ted Leeson, Todd Hosman and others.
Ken Iwamasa was co-curator of the Confluence: International trout fly exhibition, former executive director and writer for Fly Fisherman magazine Japan Edition, one of the original Orvis fly fishing school instructors and guide, and he has given numerous presentations to TU and FFF chapters throughout Colorado and the US since 1976.
He has fly fished in many fresh and salt waters of the world. And he has worked to establish eco-tourism (fly fishing tourism) in Mongolia and works with Peter Mullett, to promote fly fishing for taimen in the Darhat Valley, Mongolia since 1999. Please read his article “The Taimen of the Darhat Valley – Mongolia” in the Sept 2007 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine.
He is a life-time member of Trout Unlimited and is currently a professor of art at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, and he has shown his creative art work nationally and internationally as well. Ken is serving as a BFC Board Member at Large this year and heads our committee for the Boulder Creek Watershed Mapping Project.