Simon is an Architect by profession. He picked up his first spey rod in 2002 and designed his first "rainbow" spey line in 2004 by the bank of American River. By 2005, he founded the Nextcast Products with the original 95 spey lines. Then, he designed some of most excited spey lines in the modern spey line history such as FallFavorite35, FallFavorite45, FallFavorite55, FallFavorite70, WinterAuthority35, WinterAuthority45, WinterAuthority55 and WorldChamp15 which is the current 15' world record line. Now he is full time with Nextcast and live by the bank of a river design, cut and paste spey lines for the first hand creation.