Randy Lato

A little personal history ... 

I was born in Wisconsin and when I was 4 years old my parents came to Washington to visit my mom's sister and they fell in love with the area.

Upon returning from there trip they auctioned off everything and we were on the move. We moved to Washington in 1968 and this is were I grew up and call home. I went to the Forks schools from kindergarten though the 12th grade.Graduated with honors and went to a trade school for computer programming.

The computer scene was not for me, I went from hunting and fishing most every day to sitting behind a little green screen in a concrete forest. I did finish the program and did receive a certificate that I made a airplane out of and returned to Forks. I needed work so I took up logging and logged for 20 years for several local companies.

In this time period I met and married my wife Linda who I call the COE (chief of everything) and she does everything but fish. Linda will be most likely your contact in the day time hours. She had 4 kids from a previous marrage and we now have 8 grandkids.

I lost a disc in my lower back and had it replaced with a chunk of titanium and when I was recuperating from surgery I took a course to get my captains license to start chartering in the ocean.

I have always had a great love for the ocean as my dad commercial fished every summer when I was growing up and had me out there since I was 10 years old.

We also did a great deal of river fishing for salmon and steelhead when growing up and even more in my logging days. Now I am a established fishing guide, taking people fishing from 200-250 days a year. I do love what I do and do like meeting new people.