Greg Thomas is a well-travelled steelhead fanatic and writes for various outlets, including the New York Times, Outside, Forbes, Big Sky Journal, Field & Stream, etc. He has penned several books on fly fishing, including Fly Fisher’s Guide to Wash-ington and Fly Bible Montana. He lives in Missoula, Montana and owns the website, Anglers Tonic. See more of his work at www.anglerstonic.com and on Instagram @anglerstonic.
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Dave Karczynski is a Michigan-based writer and photographer with a strong bent for difficult fish in impossible places. His by-line appears frequently in magazines across the industry, and he is also the author of two books—From Lure to Fly: Fly Fishing for Spinning and Baitcast Anglers and Smallmouth: Modern Fly-Fishing Methods, Tactics and Techniques. Check out more of Dave’s images on Instagram @davekarczynski.
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Dana Sturn is a steelhead devotee and the founder of Spey Pages. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and can be found each year (minus 2020 of course) swinging up chinook and steel on the Dean River, among other places. Follow him at @danawsturn.
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Alex grew up chasing bonefish, redfish, snook, tarpon, permit and other saltwater species in South Florida’s fabled waters and then broadened his pursuit of gamefish to the Caribbean, and Central and South America. His career in sportfishing began in 1991 as Assistant Editor of Saltwater Fly Fishing magazine, working with the likes of Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Stu Apte, Chico Fernandez, Nick Curcione and Ed Jaworowski. He later hosted and produced his own TV fishing show, Tarpon Bay Tales, for 11 seasons. And after an 8-year stint as Executive Editor of Salt Water Sportsman, Alex joined the team at Fly Fishing International.
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Alberto Rey is the 2021 Orvis Guide of the Year, a Distinguished Professor, an artist, a videographer, a writer, and the founder/director of a youth fly fishing program. His artwork is the permanent collection of over 20 museum collections and he has written and illustrated three books, Complexities of Water: Bagmati River, Nepal, The Extinct Birds Project, Lost Beauty: Icebergs and is the cowriter for Survey of Canadaway Creek in Western New York. More information is available on his website, www.albertorey.com.
Barry Ord Clarke
Barry Ord Clarke is British but has lived and worked in Norway for the past 30 years. He regularly demonstrates at fly tying exhibitions throughout Europe and the USA, and is a consultant for Mustad and Veniard Ltd. Barry was voted Fly Tyer Magazine’s Fly Tyer of the Year 2021, and has authored 12 books on fly tying. His new book, Flytying for Beginners, will be published in the USA by Skyhorse Publishing in spring 2022. Learn more about his work at his website or tie alongside Barry at his Youtube channel.
Bob White is an artist and author whose work expresses a misspent youth. Instead of doing his homework, his nose was constantly in the outdoor books and fishing magazines of the day. Consequently, he has wandered between Alaska and Patagonia for over three decades as an itinerant fishing guide, looking for gainful employment. He now paints and writes for a living; which is to say, he’s still searching.
Bob works in watercolors, oils, pencil and ink. His ability to capture a fleeting moment through the eyes of a sportsman has earned him international recognition. His work hangs in the private and corporate collections on six continents.
Bob has worked in Southwest Alaska for over three decades. He has also guided sportsmen in Argentina, and continues to host fly-fishing trips to Patagonia, Alaska, Kamchatka, Cuba and other destinations. Bob was inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Artist in 2009. He was Fly Rod & Reel magazine’s Guide of the Year in 1988. He and John Gierach contribute a collaborative column to Trout magazine. He regularly contributes artwork and the occasional essay to a myriad of national and international sporting publications. His work can be reviewed at www.bobwhitestudio.com
Barry Ord Clarke
Barry Ord Clarke is British but has lived and worked in Norway for the past 30 years. He regularly demonstrates at fly tying exhibitions throughout Europe and the USA, and is a consultant for Mustad and Veniard Ltd. Barry was voted Fly Tyer Magazine’s Fly Tyer of the Year 2021, and has authored 12 books on fly tying. His new book, Flytying for Beginners, will be published in the USA by Skyhorse Publishing in spring 2022. Learn more about his work at his website or tie alongside Barry at his Youtube channel.
Stephen Sautner has written three books including the acclaimed “Fish On, Fish Off,” and was a longtime contributor to The New York Times “Outdoors” column. He lives in suburban New Jersey and also maintains a fishing camp in the Catskill Mountains. Learn more at www.stephensautner.com; Twitter: @FishOn_FishOff
Bob White is an artist and author whose work expresses a misspent youth. Instead of doing his homework, his nose was constantly in the outdoor books and fishing magazines of the day. Consequently, he has wandered between Alaska and Patagonia for over three decades as an itinerant fishing guide, looking for gainful employment. He now paints and writes for a living; which is to say, he’s still searching.
Bob works in watercolors, oils, pencil and ink. His ability to capture a fleeting moment through the eyes of a sportsman has earned him international recognition. His work hangs in the private and corporate collections on six continents.
Bob has worked in Southwest Alaska for over three decades. He has also guided sportsmen in Argentina, and continues to host fly-fishing trips to Patagonia, Alaska, Kamchatka, Cuba and other destinations. Bob was inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Artist in 2009. He was Fly Rod & Reel magazine’s Guide of the Year in 1988. He and John Gierach contribute a collaborative column to Trout magazine. He regularly contributes artwork and the occasional essay to a myriad of national and international sporting publications. His work can be reviewed at www.bobwhitestudio.com
Frank Sargeant got his first fly rod when he was 10 years old, earned by selling Burpee seeds. It was a 3-piece bamboo built by South Bend. He promptly set it down, assembled, next to the kitchen stove, and forever after it was set in an arc as though he was eternally fighting a five-pound bass.
He has owned some much better rods since, though probably none that caught so many fish—a hundred bluegills a day was not impossible on the north Ohio farm ponds where he fished.
Since then he’s fished all over North and South America, New Zealand and a number of Pacific islands, and has written thousands of magazine articles for every publication from Field and Stream and Outdoor Life to The Readers Digest. He was a fishing guide at Homosassa before becoming long time outdoors editor of the Tampa Tribune. He’s also authored 10 books on fishing and boating. He’s a past president of the Florida Outdoor Writers’ Association. He now lives with his wife, Darla, near Alabama’s Lake Guntersville, but regularly visits Colorado in fall for trout fishing and the Florida flats in spring for a bit of everything else.
Jim McLennan was one of the first fly-fishing guides on Alberta’s Bow River, and is a well-known outdoor writer and speaker. He lives with his Lynda live in southern Alberta, where he fly fishes, teaches fly fishing, writes and plays music. He has written five books on fly fishing, most recently Trout Tracks (Rocky Mountain Books) mclennanflyfishing.com
Kyle currently resides in the rural bluffs of Black Earth, Wisconsin, where in 2013 he created Black Earth Angling Co. (www.blackearthangling.com), a fly fishing guide outfit focused on providing clients with one-of-a-kind fishing experiences. Kyle guides full time for Driftless trout and the diverse warmwater opportunities of the Wisconsin River. Kyle has become well known for his guide work on the Wisconsin River, specifically “The Crash,” as well as his work with a camera in the field as a fly fishing photographer. His photo work has appeared in notable publications, such as The Flyfish Journal, Eastern Fly Fishing, The Drake, and Fly Fisherman. Kyle has fished in Mexico, the Bahamas, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, and extensively throughout the United States.
Alberto Rey is the 2021 Orvis Guide of the Year, a Distinguished Professor, an artist, a videographer, a writer, and the founder/director of a youth fly fishing program. His artwork is the permanent collection of over 20 museum collections and he has written and illustrated three books, Complexities of Water: Bagmati River, Nepal, The Extinct Birds Project, Lost Beauty: Icebergs and is the cowriter for Survey of Canadaway Creek in Western New York. More information is available on his website, www.albertorey.com.