Pro Shop | Morgan Thalken | Sacramento California Morgan grew up in Sacramento, California and after tying flies and fly fishing for just three years, was hired by a local fly shop at the age of fourteen to tie custom patterns for the fly bins. This role evolved into guiding and instructing other anglers, as well as hosting travel. It was the beginning of my love affair with the sport of fly fishing. After college,… Continue reading
Pro Shop | Katie and Cooper Anderson | Avon CO Tell us a little about yourselves and your business. Cooper has been guiding for 20 years and me for 14. We have been together for 15 years, and I set up “Anderson’s Fish Camp” as a way to promote ourselves and try and gain more trips, with a secondary benefit of being paid as Anderson’s Fish Camp because I didn’t want to keep track of who used… Continue reading
Pro Shop | George Daniel | Lock Haven PA Give a bit of background about yourself and how you started guiding/teaching In short, I’m just someone who loves the activity of fly fishing. I try to consider myself a lifelong learner and try to set that example with everything I do fly-fishing related. I’m a former competitor for fly-fishing Team USA but am prouder of the fact that I am an educator of fly fishing… Continue reading
Pro Shop | James Hughes | Schultz Outfitters As the interest in warmwater fly fishing continues to grow, so has the guiding opportunities. James Hughes is a native Michigander based out of Schultz Outfitters in Ypsilanti. His focus is mainly smallmouth bass and he covers a large portion of southern Michigan on several different river systems. Hughes also targets carp and does some steelhead guiding in the winter. James started fly fishing at age… Continue reading
Pro Shop | Hilary Hutcheson | Larys Fly Shop Hilary started her fly-fishing career as a teenaged guide in West Glacier, Montana on the famed Flathead River system at the southern and western boundaries of Glacier National Park. She guided through college, then took her journalism degree to Portland, Oregon where she worked as a television news anchor and reporter. She eventually returned to Montana to guide and co-own and operate Outside Media and Trout TV… Continue reading
Pro Shop | Jeff Liskay | Great Lakes Fly Fishing SA Advisor Jeff Liskay, is based on the south shore of Lake Erie in Avon Lake, Ohio. He is well-known and respected across the Great Lakes region and beyond as an instructor and guide. Liskay was a part of the earliest group of anglers to learn and popularize the use of two-hand rods and swung flies for the migratory rainbows of the Great Lakes. His… Continue reading
Pro Shop | John Bond | Rena Fiskecamp John Bond grew up in a flyfishing family. Both his mother and father were anglers and he accompanied them on numerous flyfishing vacations around the East coast. Bond caught his first fish at age 7 and was fishing on his own by age 11. Flyfishing has been a daily part of his life since 1995. In 2010 Bond moved to Montana to fulfill a life-long dream. … Continue reading
Pro Shop | Ben Pascal | Laguna Madre Outfitters My guiding career started at the ripe age of 19 in Colorado in 2007 and spent two summers learning the nuances of guiding in Colorado. Wanting to get my USCG license, I began guiding at fly-out lodges in Bristol Bay. I spent the next 5 summers in Alaska and during that time, migrated south to guide the winters in Chilean Patagonia and Argentine Tierra Del… Continue reading
Pro Shop | Ron Ratliff | Marshdawn Fly Fishing I’m a native-born full-time fly-fishing guide in southern Louisiana. This area is an endless maze of bayous and marshes. In addition to world-class fly fishing, the area features amazing birdlife, exceptional food, and unique local communities. I’ve fly fished for most of my life and am also a published fly tyer, having patterns in America’s Favorite Flies and Drew Chicone’s Redfish Flies. I fish for anything… Continue reading
Pro Shop | Brian Chan | Kamloops British Columbia Brian Chan spent 30-plus years as a fisheries biologist in British Columbia where he specialized in studying small lake systems. This knowledge was combined with his interest in fly fishing and Chan is recognized as one of the top stillwater fly anglers worldwide. His knowledge and insight have been shared in books, magazines, videos, and online. Chan has also been instrumental in the development of Scientific… Continue reading
