G R MurphyG.R. Murphy (Murf) was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up fishing, anywhere and everywhere, freshwater and saltwater. At the age of twenty-four, he joined the Charlotte Fire Department, where he also became an emergency medicaltechnician as well as a swiftwater rescue technician. Now retired, he resides with his wife somewhere in the "Brushy Mountains" of North Carolina, fly fishing as much as possible. Read More Read Less