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Joe S. Moore - Born and raised in Southern Illinois, Joe made his first trip to Montana in 1982, and at the age of 6 his father taught him to fly fish and tie flies. He owns and operates Big Sky Anglers, a guide service out of West Yellowstone, MT, and has been fishing and guiding the Madison, Missouri and the waters of Yellowstone National Park for the past 11 years. |
Lance Gleason grew up in Upstate New York fishing the AuSable River, and learned to tie flies from master Fran Betters. He graduated from Paul Smith's college with an environmental ecology degree.He moved to Missoula, MT in the
summer of 1992 and bought a raft before he bought a car. He met John Perry on the river, who taught him how to row a boat, and he has been guiding for him ever since. During thewinter he works in Chile. When he's not guiding for trout, he likes to salt-water fish and swing flies for steelhead.
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Evan Phillippe grew up fishing the limestone spring creeks and mountain brook trout streams of Appalachia. A never-ending search for bigger trout and deeper snow led Evan through Colorado before he moved to Missoula in 2003. He is the outfitting manager and a guide for Grizzly Hackle Fly Shop. |
Aaron Shattuck caught his first on a fly at age 10 and began tying flies soon thereafter. He grew up in Reno, NV where he fished the Truckee River and later moved to Missoula,Montana to pursue a Master's in education, where he supplemented his income byguiding in Alaska, and on many other Montana rivers.
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Brad Downey started fly fishing 40 years ago while living in Colorado. After numerous pilgrimages to Montana, he decided to make Montana his permanent residence. He has been owner and outfitter for Angler's Edge on the Bighorn River for the last 26 years. Many of Brad's patterns ,such as the Downey’s Wonder and Downey Duns, have been mainstays for angler's fishing the Bighorn and other rivers . Brad continues to explore conceptual tying techniques
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Walter Wiese is Head Guide at Parks' Fly Shop in Gardiner, MT. He writes the "Fly Box" Column for Fishing and Hunting News, and his stories have also appeared in American Angler and elsewhere. When not guiding for trout, he chases steelhead, as the photo attests.
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Richard Ross is a native Pennsylvanian who regularly
fishes the fabled waters of his home state and the Catskill region of New York. When time permits, he fly fishes and demonstrates fly tying across the United States, Europe and Scandinavia. Richard's snowshoe patterns have proven effective around the world and have been the subject of magazine
articles in the US and Japan.
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"Pete Shanafelt grew up in the mountains of Central Idaho. He began guiding on Idaho's famed Silver Creek and Big Wood Rivers just after graduating from High School. Pete then made a career move to Missoula, Montana in 2001, where he has been guiding since and in his spare time received a Business degree from the University of Montana. Pete's patterns are solutions to the Missoula area rivers diverse hatches." |
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Paul Weamer is a fly fishing author, lecturer, guide, and a fly and hook designer. He was taught to tie flies and fish by his father in the fertile limestone valleys of Central Pennsylvania. After college, Paul spent four years working as a counselor before accepting a job managing a fly fishing lodge and shop near the Delaware River. He left that position in April 2002 to become the managing partner of Border Water Outfitters in Hancock, NY. In early 2007, after spending nearly a decade in the Delaware River watershed, Paul returned to Central Pennsylvania as the manager of TCO's fly fishing operations in State College and Spruce Creek. He has written fly fishing and tying articles for Fly Fisherman, the Mid Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide,and the Hancock Herald Newspaper. Paul's first book, "Fly Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River," was released in August 2007 (Stackpole Books). He has also collaborated, with Jay Nichols, on a dry fly tying book scheduled for release in 2008,and is working on a third book. Paul, his wife Ruthann, and their two dogs, "Grizzly" Hackle and Brandy, currently reside near Penn's Creek in Coburn, Pennsylvania. |
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