Rick Kustich
West River Publishing
PO Box 15
Grand Island NY 14072
rkustich@hotmail.com
www.westriverpub.com
Rick Kustich began fly fishing over thirty years ago on the lakes and streams of upstate New York. He has since traveled extensively to experience the finest fly fishing throughout North America but continues to find that some of the best fishing often exists in your own backyard.
Pudge Kleinkauf: Daiichi Pro Staff
Cecilia Pudge Kleinkauf
P.O. Box 243963
Anchorage AK 99524
pudge@womensflyfishing.net
www.womensflyfishing.net
Kleinkauf is Alaska’s leading woman fly fishing instructor, fly tier and guide. Renowned for her teaching skills in both fly fishing and fly tying, she is also Alaska’s best-known woman guide. Her business, Women’s Flyfishing offers lodge-based fly fishing schools and small-group guided trips for women and couples to a wide variety of Alaska’s best known fly fishing locations. She also leads guided trips to Argentina and Sweden and to Mexico each spring for saltwater fly fishing.
A regular presenter at outdoor shows around the country, Pudge is also one of the Special Explorers for the Alaska Magazine Television Series on PBS. Pudge is the author or two books and a contributing editor for Fish Alaska Magazine. Her first book, Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska, 2003 Epicenter Press received several awards, and her second book, River Girls: Fly Fishing for Young Women, 2006 Johnson Books, won the first-place gold award in the Benjamin Franklin Awards Sports and Outdoor Recreation Book Competition in 2007. Her new book, Sailfish of the North: Fly Fishing for Alaska’s Arctic Grayling, will be released by Frank Amato Publications in late 2009. A retired University professor and lawyer, Pudge is a member of Trout Unlimited`s Outfitters, Guides & Business Members Program and a member of the Federation of Fly Fishers` Guides Association. One of the founders of the Intl. Women Fly Fishers, and of the Casting for Recovery program in Alaska, she also serves as a Fly Fishing Ambassador for Patagonia, and as a Pro Staff member for Daiichi, Ross Reels, Scientific Angler›, Sierra Stream & Mountain, Jay Fair, and others.
Nov
11
Monte Kennedy: Daiichi Pro Staff
Monte Kennedy
5154 Bly Hill Road
Ashville NY 14710
National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame: Four World Records. Two Outstanding Angling Achievement Awards Fly Fishing Guide Service: Lake Erie Tributaries & Little Juniata River. Founder & Editor: Kids on the Fly: Quarterly newsletter for kids & Weekly Fly Tying Classes. Fly Fishing Merit Badge Counselor: Alleghany Highlands Council Boy Scouts of America.
I started fishing as a youngster around the age of nine, at least I can remember receiving a Zebco spin casting reel and rod for my ninth birthday. Initially, I fished using worms and grasshoppers as bait and caught bass, pan fish and trout. I didn t begin to become interested in fly-fishing until I was 24 years old and then I realized I would have to learn to tie flies. Around the age of 42 I became serious about fly-fishing. I was on the road as a sales trainer for Motorola, Inc. and would spend some of my afternoons at a fly fishing shop learning to tie intermediate type flies. The tying of classical streamers caught on a few years ago and I took a class with Mike Martinek Jr.. renown classic streamer tier, that has aided in my desire to create new designs. Of course, this all leads to more fishing to test new patterns that I am designing. What Fun! I’ve fished the Adirondacks and Catskills, fished rivers, streams and lakes in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Montana, Alaska and Canada. I currently hold Four World Catch-N-Release Records and two Outstanding Angling Achievement Awards in the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame. I have the good fortune to be a fly fishing merit badge counselor in the Allegheny Highlands Council of the Boy Scouts of America. I recently started the Kids on the Fly, a fly fishing group with youngsters 10 to 16 years of age. I have been fortunate to have numerous companies donate equipment and materials for those youngsters to use in learning to tie flies. I use Daiichi Hooks exclusively; in fact all fish in the accompanying photos were caught on Daiichi Hooks!
Dan Kellog: Daiichi Pro Staff
Dan Kellog
403 Picadilly Circle
Medford OR 97504
541-773-4724
flyguy@eznorthwest.com
My passion for fly fishing is related to most of my other hobbies, boating, hiking, birding, and most importantly, fly tying. Once the kids left the nest I was determined to keep that promise to myself about learning to tie; not to save money on flies but just to create an imitation that could catch fish. The creativity has turned into the art phase.
LeRoy Hyatt: Daiichi Pro Staff
LeRoy Hyatt
908 Tamarack Drive
I have been a commercial tier for over 30 years. I tie approximately 600 dozen flies a year. Some of the shops I tie for have asked what brand of hook I use and I am always proud to tell them Daiichi. I have never had a shop request another brand of hook.
Why Daiichi? I like the way they perform. I fish quite a bit and I have never had a hook fail. I very much like the mini barb on Daiichi dry fly hook #1180. (more…)
Nov
08
Henry Hoffman: Daiichi Pro Staff
Henry Hoffman
89777 W. Anderson Rd.
Warrenton OR. 97146
503-861-2627
hoffmanfti@yahoo.com
Henry has been tying flies since 1955. Since then he received the 1994 FFF’s Lee Wulff award for genetically producing the super grade hackle he started in 1965. In 1990 Henry started designing flies with rooster soft hackle, knee hackle and chickabou. The Oregon Council of the FFF made him their 2000 Fly Tyer of the Year. Henry is pictured above with a 28 inch Lahontan Cutthroat trout caught and released at a lake in Washington State. Fly used: His Purple Chickabugger. Hook: Daiichi 2220 size 6.
Scott Hoff: Daiichi Pro Staff
Scott Hoff
1645 West Ardenwood Court
Concord CA 94521
(925) 595-1544
sctthoff@aol.com
David Hise: Daiichi Pro Staff
David Hise
2427 North Center St. Hickory, NC 28601
828-304-2400
casters@castersflyshop.com
castersonlineflyshop.com
Bio/Experiences: Dave has 34 years of tying experience, 27 of which has been devoted to tying instruction and working in the fly fishing industry. Dave has been an Orvis Fly Designer for the past 17 years and was named the Orvis Fly Tyer of the Year in 2005. As a Daiichi and Deer Creek Pro Staffer, Dave is at the bench daily working on new and improved fish catching creations. If not at the bench, Dave is on (more…)
Nov
08
photo by Vaughn Podmore
Ken Hanley
510-657-4847
kenpacx@yahoo.com
www.pacificextremes.com
2005 Hall of Fame Inductee, Federation of Fly Fishers (N. California Chapter)
He’s been in the adventure angling industry since 1970.
He’s the author of seven fly fishing books. Tying Furled Flies was awarded “Book of the Year Award 2008” from the Outdoor Writer’s Association of California. He also writes and photographs for both international and regional publications in the outdoor industry.
Ken’s extensive field experience spans the globe; from the highest peaks in Tibet and the Himalaya, to the remote wilderness regions of Asia, New Zealand, Mexico, Europe, and North America. From panfish to roosterfish, he’s caught over ninety different species of fresh and saltwater gamefish.
He’s on Pro Staff with the following sponsors; SAGE Instructor, SIMMS, RIO Products, Hatch Outdoors, Daiichi, Renzetti, and Patagonia
Nov
08
Jason Haddix; Daiichi Pro Staff
Jason Haddix
1201 Ashlawn Ct.
Ft. Collins CO 80525
970-310-1393
j-onthefly@hotmail.com
Jason P. Haddix originally from rural Illinois, now lives and works in Ft. Collins, Colorado. He has been both fly fishing and tying flies for quite a long time. Jason guides, teaches lessons and works in the shop at Angler`s Roost Fly Fishing Company. In addition to his duties at Angler`s Roost Jason also spends a great deal of time working to promote both fly tying and fly fishing, as well as working with kids to ensure the future of the sport.
