Meet The Best Utah Fly Fishing Guides & Fly Shop Staff

Guide: Hank Boehm
Guide Locations: Provo River, Weber River, Local Streams, Green River
Hometown:Although originally from the east coast Hank considers Park City, Utah his hometown
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Drift boat float fishing
What he enjoys about guiding: Hank loves to teach his favorite sport and loves being outdoors
Other interests, hobbies: Cruising on large cruise ships and fishing foreign waters
Favorite Flies: Cicadas or any foam dry fly
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: Taught university level fly fishing courses
Children / Spouse:Wife Liz. 6 children; John, James (Both fly fishing guides) Alyssa, Carly, Jenessa, Ali
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Guide: Steve Cook
Guide Locations: Provo River, Weber River, Local Streams, LC Ranch
Hometown: Markette, MI.
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Backpacking into the Wind River Range for big Golden Trout
What he enjoys about guiding: Getting to spend time with wonderful people, sharing his passion for flyfishing. Also enjoys the only job where he can smoke cigars at work.
Other interests, hobbies: Telemark skiing, "free your heel and free yourself."
Favorite Flies: Small Dave's Hopper, bead head Pheasant Tail.
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments:B.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Management. Author of Utah Fishing Guide and Rocky Mountain Fly Fishing Guide.
Children / Spouse: Daughter Jessica
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Guide: Jason Curry
Guide Locations: Provo River, Weber River & too many other local streams to list
Hometown: Geneseo, NY
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Steelheading
What he enjoys about guiding: Getting people into fish
Other interests, hobbies:Snowboarding, outdoor writing, fly fishing video production www.fliesandfinswest.com
Favorite Flies: The ones that are catching fish
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: B.S. Geology
Children / Spouse: Wife Rebekah
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Guide: Walter Foster
Guide Locations: Provo, Weber, Local Streams, LC Ranch
Hometown: Jamaica, VT
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Sight nymphing to large, selective tailwater trout like the Yampa in Colorado or Provo in Utah.
What he enjoys about guiding: Teaching people techniques. Seeing results and showing them something new. Watching people progress.
Other interests, hobbies: Skiing, Mountain Biking, Travelling.
Favorite Flies: Midges and beadhead patterns especially small, technical patterns.
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: BS Environmental Science Southern Vermont College. Fly Fishing for a living or at least teaching it.
Children / Spouse:Wife Anndrea
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Guide: Jon Hinich
Guide Locations: Green River
Hometown: Pacific Palisades, CA.
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing:Floating the fabulous Green River in Utah
What he enjoys about guiding: Meeting new people who love to be outdoors as much as he does
Other interests, hobbies: Upland Bird Hunting
Favorite Flies: Streamers and large dry flies of any type
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments:Currently pursuing history and philosophy degree
Children / Spouse: Wife Jan
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Guide: Trevor Howard
Guide Locations: Provo, Weber, Small Streams
Hometown:Salt Lake City, UT
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Steelhead trip each fall. Swinging flies for Steelhead
What he enjoys about guiding: Watching clients improve and get excited about fly fishing
Other interests, hobbies:Horses, Snowmobiling, and anything outdoors
Favorite Flies: Any caddis that will skate, any hand tied steelhead fly
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments:Working on a bachelors in Psychology
Children / Spouse:Beautiful wife Jayme
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Guide: Brian Kapaloski
Guide Locations: Green River
Hometown:Salt Lake City, UT
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing:Spey Casting for Steelhead
What he enjoys about guiding: Teaching people about the sport and watching fish eat big dries!
Other interests, hobbies:Skiing the steep and deep Utah powder
Favorite Flies: Whatever fly you want as long as it is presented right
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments:Attended college
Children / Spouse:
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Guide: Tom Knight
Guide Locations: Green River
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing:Tom enjoys fly fishing for any species where you can see the fish and watch their reaction to the fly. Some of his favorites are sight fishing to large carp in shallow water, stalking selective rising trout and hunting permit over saltwater flats.
What he enjoys about guiding: Watching fly fishers develop and hone their predatory skills and teaching anglers.
Other interests, hobbies: Bird hunting (both upland and waterfowl), poling his flats boat in search of trophy carp.
Favorite Flies: Royal Wullf, Parachute Cricket, Woolly Bugger, Red Eye Sculpin, Brown Zebra Midge, Merkin Crab.
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: Attended university of Oregon
Children / Spouse:
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Guide: Jeff Osterhout
Guide Locations: Provo River, Local Streams, LC Ranch
Hometown: Burley, Idaho
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing:Any trip with friends and fish I can hunt... like the Green River, the Henry’s Fork of the Snake, Alaska or saltwater flats fishing.
What he enjoys about guiding: Being outdoors, being around moving water and meeting and teaching new people the sport of fly fishing and watching them progress.
Other interests, hobbies: Skiing, Mountain Biking, Travelling
Favorite Flies: Small dries for rising fish. Super exclusive patterns he ties.
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments:B.S. environmental studies from the University of Utah, EMT certification, firefighter for Salt Lake County.
Children / Spouse: Wife Melissa, also takes care of Harley like he is his child
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Guide: Chris Passage
Guide Locations: Provo River, Weber River
Hometown: Park City, Utah
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing:I love to take road trips to explore new waters. My favorite type of fishing would be stalking and sight casting to large trout on small streams
What he enjoys about guiding: The most exciting thing for me is watching beginners smile from ear to ear when they start catching lots of fish, and then tell me they are hooked on the sport!
Other interests, hobbies: Skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and motorcycling
Favorite Flies: The ones my clients are catching fish on that day!
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: B.S. Business Administration, M.S. Package Engineering
Children / Spouse: Wife Michelle. Son Tanner
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Guide: Robert Van
Guide Locations: Provo River, Green River
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah.
Favorite fly fishing trip / type of fly fishing: Michigan steelheading on the Pere Marquette, Little Manistee, Rogue, Dowagiac and the White River
What he enjoys about guiding: The anticipation of the next fish.
Other interests, hobbies: Time with my family, Baseball, Basketball and tying flies.
Favorite Flies: Fat Albert, vinyl ribbed WD40
Education / College / Degrees / Accomplishments: University Of Utah, School of Engineering ME.
Children / Spouse: Caden, Emma and my wife that allows me to guide Angie
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