I don't think that John Thomas, Terry Sheely and Milt Kaiser actually owned Fishing Maps, but were the staff.

After it folded they started Fishing Holes on their own, but it struggled financially from the get-go and eventually they had to sell ownership to pay the printing bill.

It struggled along under new ownership (twice) until finally folding.

It seems to me that Dave Vedder's first magazine article was done for Fishing Holes.

John Thomas passed away from cancer several years ago. He was working for Luhr-Jensen at the time. Milt Kaiser is retired and living in Carnation. Terry Sheely is still one of the PNW's most active writers and publisher of the Washington State Fishing Guide.