Fly Fishing

With our guide service we do specialize with fly anglers as well as tradition gear anglers.
We have two guides on hand that are certified fly fishing guides.  

We have local patterns we have made up that we use, available for purchase.  Call us after your booking and well tell you what we run if you’d like to tie your own prior to arrival. At the same time we’ll let you know the type of set-ups we run here.
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After a confirmed booking we send out a 13 page PDF document outlining techniques, rod and line types, patterns and what to expect for a full day on the water.



Do you really FlyFish and are you certified Fly guides?

Yes we are certified fly guides over 12 years and we've been fly fishing for over 20 years.  

In this area we unfortunately do have alot of guides who will tell customers they take Fly Anglers out but not tell them they don't do it themselves and really are truly beginners themselves. Can't cast themselves, let alone instruct.   Being able to hold a boat is another skill set in itself. This is an area for that truly requires a good fly guide. It's not easy water.   We have alot of anglers each year who book us, when the year before they were taken out by a guide who doesn't fly fish, who didn't let them know the whole truth.  Then we get pointed out on the water, "thats who you want to take out". 

Wether you book with us or someone else that we can recommend.  Here's a few questions to ask a guide!!

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- Do they tie their own flies or buy them? We can't buy local patterns, the ones we can buy are undersized cheap bronze hooks that bend out, overpriced, fall apart, and don't have enough hook gap for purchase. 

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-What line size/ rods do you use?  If anything below a 8wt, run, they're killing fish to exhaustion, don't know anything about fly fishing the area and don't have the required gear to turn over flies needed. They won't run the right fly lines to get into fish.  Mind there are only very few circumstances can you get away with something lighter.  An attached PDF on exact specs will be sent once a deposit is made. 

To quote a Simms Representative we took out, "you weren't lying when you said you used 8wts to 10wts on these fish", as he's got a 10wt bent over to the cork. 

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-Do they know what an articulated streamer is? Do they use 7" long hair on a 7/0 hook for pike?  No and long hair,  run the other way.  No knowledge on hook setback and hollow tying flies to create size without all the bulk to be able to cast.