Bradley Johnson is a Wyoming native. He grew up in the Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming with the Yellowstone Plateau to the west and the Bighorn Mountains to the east. 

His life long passion for fly fishing began around age ten when, beside his grandfather, he took up the sport of fly fishing. That summer would help chart a course that would include a scientific pursuit of the science of ecology, outdoor writing, and, of course, a lifetime of fly fishing.

Bradley is an Iraq War Veteran and spent fourteen years uniform with the U.S. Army and Army National Guard.