Catching the Fishing Bug*

*From the Winter 2021 issue of Sun Valley Magazine. Check out the online edition here.

Most kids who grow up in the middle of the high desert don’t become obsessed with water. But Zac Mayhew was never like the other kids.

  “I was that weird kid that just always went fishing,” said Zac, who is now 36 and married. “The only requirement for me to be happy on family trips was that we had to be near water so I could go fish.”