Don Kirk has written about fishing and the outdoors for over four decades. Currently he is editor of "IS Outdoors," a digital magazine. He has hosted weekly outdoors talk radio shows on Sirius/XM and Voice America. Kirk currently resides in Montevallo, Alabama. Greg Ward is a lifelong resident of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. A hunting and fishing guide in the Smoky Mountains since his teens, he owns and operates Rocky Top Outfitters in the Forge. Ward is a well-known expert on Smoky Mountains fly-fishing.