Steelhead Anglers

Pete is a popular, licensed Michigan river guide specializing in swinging flies for Great Lakes Steelhead on the world famous Muskegon River.   He is an FFF Single, Two Handed and Masters certified instructor and an avid fly tier.  While known for fishing Steelhead with large Scandinavian style Temple Dogs he also holds a passion for the flats and Permit, tarpon and Bonefish.  Peter has played an important role in bringing the knowledge of GUIDELINE products to Steelhead fishers in the Great Lakes area and to places like Northern BC.

Peter has been chasing Great Lakes steelhead and chinook for close to twenty years and for the past ten he has been chasing them with shooting heads.  He is an innovator in both fly design and and tactics and he has pioneered the use of full sinking shooting heads for cold water presentations to Great Lakes Steelhead.  He was also the originator the Casting Weight Model, still the most advanced and effective method for rating and matching Spey lines to two-handed rods. 

While my flies for Salmon and Steelhead are legendary my real passion lies in fishing them.  You will find me on the water daily with excellent GUIDELINE products and often teaching and putting on demonstrations to teach techniques to eager anglers.

Larry Aiuppy is a lifelong outdoorsman and master fly fisher who began fishing at his grandfather’s knee before age five. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, with its rich tradition of fly fishing, he began fly fishing by age nine. He has now been fly fishing for over 50 years. Larry is a life member of Trout Unlimited (TU), having first joined in Michigan, not long after TU was born there. He has been a member of the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) since the 1970’s, and the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) since 1986. He has lived, and fished, in the Northern Rockies for over thirty seven years, moving to Jackson Hole, Wyoming from Michigan in 1971.

 

He has fly fished widely and extensively across North America for cold water, warm water, freshwater, saltwater and anadromous fish species, including rainbow, brown, brook, cutthroat, lake, bull, golden and steelhead trout. He has fished for Pacific and Atlantic salmon, arctic char, Dolly Varden, and arctic grayling, as well as northern pike, pickerel and muskellunge. He has fished for largemouth and smallmouth bass and various warm water panfish and, yes, catfish and carp. He has also fished for a number of saltwater species - including sea trout, redfish, tarpon, snook, jack crevalle, tripletail, snapper, and various others, even spending a short time as a commercial fisherman in Florida. Among the places he has fly fished are Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Florida, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and New Zealand.

 

A lifelong student of fly casting, and natural teacher who has taught a number of outdoor skills professionally (cross country skiing, advanced first aid, climbing and mountaineering, photography, wilderness survival, etc.) Larry is a Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor (FFF CCI) and FFF Certified Two-Handed (Spey) Casting Instructor (FFF THCI), providing private lessons as Zen Casting with Larry Aiuppy. He also works with the Fly Fishing Discovery Center (FFDC) of the Federation of Fly Fishers in Livingston, Montana as a coach/facilitator to the FFDC fly casting program. He is available for private instruction, casting clinics and demonstrations of single hand and two hand (Spey) casting techniques.

(406) 222-7308

Bob has made fly fishing his livelihood for nearly 20 years, Instructing fly casting, fly fishing, and fly tying while working at all levels in the fly fishing industry. His passion for chasing all types of fish with a fly have taken him from Patagonia to Canada, Idaho to Maine and many places in between. Pan fish to 100+ lb Tarpon, all are memorable.

Fly-fishing has always been Neil Houlding's life long pursuit. By 18 years of age, Neil's passion for a two-hand rod had already begun to coalesce.

He spent many hours honing his skills on rivers such as the Lune and Ribble not far from his home in Lancashire, England. 

Moving to Canada, he continued his pursuit of fishing the fly.  His travels have taken him as far as the Gaula River in Norway and the River Spey in Scotland. 

Neil is an accomplished Guide, who is also a certified casting instructor with the Fly Fishing Federation,

Attaining the CI and THCI certification, and furthermore, coached the inaugural "World Youth Fly-Fishing Championships" in Wales. 

Neil has applied his enthusiasm and ability as a teacher. 

Joe Contaldi began his life-long angling addiction at the ripe age of four. Fishing the streams of the New Jersey countryside as a young lad, Joe lived “tight lines” and “bent rods” even before entering into kindergarten. When asked in his first math class what the sum of ten plus twelve is, he offered the response, "About the number of fish that I caught yesterday!" Relocating to Southern California during his high school years, Joe began to explore all of the So Cal waters, and all that they have to offer. Joe's history of angling in Southern California is exceptionally respectable. "Matuka Joe" has twenty years to-date of fishing and guiding experience in the Eastern Sierra. He understands all of the fish species, and the vast majority of fishable waters in Mono and Inyo Counties. Likewise, Joe has a history of hanging out with salty dawgs, bringing to the decks of countless ocean charter boats plenty of Bluefin, Yellowfin, Albacore, Dorado, and almost every other saltwater species one can find off of the coast of Southern California. Ask him about it next time you are in the shop. The fifteen years that Joe committed to running saltwater spinning and fly fishing charters is evident, in his love of being out on the boat on Convict Lake or Crowley Lake. When Joe is not fishing or guiding on the bountiful creeks, streams, and rivers in the Eastern Sierra, "Matuka Joe" likely has the boat anchored on a very productive corner of Crowley Lake. The P.A. Midge and P.A. Perch patterns envisioned and developed by Joe do land lots of very big trout throughout the region, each and every summer. “Matuka Joe” has spearheaded the world of video fly fishing and video spin & bait reports for the Eastern Sierra. They are really cool, extremely informative, and on this website. Joe really enjoys spending quality time fishing with his family: his lovely wife Julia and two sons Quinn and Logan. Youth development goes further than Joe's family, as he is deeply and selflessly committed towards bringing young (and younger) anglers into the world of fishing. He heads up the Kids Fishing Festival in Mammoth Lakes