Person of Interest

Florida home: Naples. She met her husband, Ron, a now-retired healthcare executive, at the city’s Lowdermilk Park 41 years ago.

Age: 61.

Best catch: A 25-pound, one-ounce. permit fish (in the pompano family) that she caught in four-and-a-half feet of water in Andros, using a double-haul casting stroke, making her the women’s record holder for a rod-caught permit in the Bahamas.

Watering holes: The Everglades, Aspen, New Zealand, Tasmania and Northern British Columbia, the last at a lodge so remote that guests travel the last few miles by float plane. Next stop? Patagonia.

Burning ambition: To be on the cover of Field & Stream.

Previous life: On the gala scene in Naples, pulling together the first over-the-top fantasy auction packages for the Community School of Naples’ early Angel Balls.

Serendipity, with elk: Five years ago, wanting to escape the party circuit, she and her husband "ran away from home." They joined Colorado’s Roaring Fork Golf Club to learn the game together, but were offered fly-fishing lessons instead after elk ate the course. He hated it, but she fell in love with all things fly, from the entomology of the specialized lures to its Zen philosophy.

Secret identity: Race car driver. Brown worked with racing legend Janet Guthrie to take her Ferrari 430 Spyder in and out of spins.

Passing it on: Last summer in Colorado she taught grandson Griffin, seven, to cast.

Birthday party: On Jan. 18, she’ll celebrate turning 62 by hiking Peru’s Machu Picchu.