Celebrities:  Dan Blanton: Dan Blanton, from San Jose, California, now living in Morgan Hill, California with his wife, Cindy, is a well-known and respected fly fishing and casting instructor, lecturer, fly fishing author and outdoor photographer. He is acknowledged to be one of the pioneers in the development of Pacific coast and Central American saltwater fly fishing. He is the recipient of the Federation of Fly Fisher's 1990 Arnold Gingrich Memorial Life Membership award for outstanding achievement in outdoors writing as related to fly fishing. He also is the Federations of Fly Fisher's 1995 recipient of the Silver King award for outstanding contributions to the sport of saltwater fly fishing. In April of 2002 Dan was inducted into the FFF California/Nevada Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. In October 2009 Dan was inducted into The Catskill Fishing Center and Museum fly fishing hall of fame.An acclaimed fly tier, Dan originated the Whistler Series, Punch Series, Sar-Mul-Mac Series, Sea Arrow Squid, Bay-Delta Eelet and many other world renowned saltwater fly patterns. His patterns, originated in the late 1960s and early 70s, remain popular and productive world-wide. The former Managing Editor of Angler Magazine, Dan is currently an Editor-at-Large for Fly Fishing Salt Waters magazine, Fly Fisherman magazine and the California Fly Fisher. Dan is also one of The Complete Fly Fisherman of South Africa's International Field Editors. He was the Salt Water Fly Fishing columnist for Sport Fishing magazine and Fly Fish America magazines for more than a decade. A free-lance writer for more than 35 years and an active member of both the Outdoor Writers Association of California, and the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Dan contributes regularly to many fly fishing periodicals both in the USA, Australia, Japan and South Africa. His Book Fly Fishing California’s Great waters have received excellent reviews. Fifteen years ago, Dan published his website www.danblanton.com as a means to promote his outdoors related business. He also wanted to give something back to the fly fishing community so he included a fly fishing bulletin board, tackle and techniques fly fishing page and a hot fly page. Dan’s Fly Fishing website and bulletin board, going on their 15th year, are extremely popular, world-wide. Visit www.danblanton.com/bulletin.php.
 Simon Gawesworth: Simon learned to fish at the age of 6 and took up fly fishing when aged 8, being trained by his father - well known fly fishing instructor and author, John Gawesworth. By the time he left school at 16 to teach fly fishing Simon had become the British Junior casting champion, repeating the feat the next year. In the following years Simon broke seven casting records and won the adult casting championships three times in succession, representing England in two European and one World Team Championships.With the collapse of the British Casting Authority and the tournament casting scene in the UK, Simon turned his hand to competitive fly fishing. Over the following years Simon represented England in three home internationals (against Ireland, Scotland and Wales), two European championships and five World Championships, culminating in the prestige of becoming the England Team Captain and Manager for the 2003 World Championships in Spain. During his career Simon has written numerous articles for the fishing press, published two best selling books on spey casting, presented five instructional videos and DVD’s, appeared on numerous television and radio shows, demonstrated casting at fly fishing shows around the world and is recognized as one of the leading authorities on spey casting. He is a Master and THCI (Two Handed Casting Instructor) certified instructor as well as being on the board of governors and on the two handed committee for the Federation of Fly Fishers in the US. He also holds the APGAI and STANIC diplomas for Fly Fishing Instruction in the UK. Simon currently works for RIO products in Idaho where he helps design and tests fly lines, handles foreign distribution for RIO and is Vice President of marketing. He also conducts fly casting classes and seminars around the world.  John Hazel: John was born and raised in Oregon. He began fishing the Deschutes River in the early 1960's with his grandfather, and avid fly angler. In 1978, John began guiding steelhead and trout trips for fly fishermen on the Deschutes. Over the past twenty-four years of guiding this river at least 200 days each year, John has shared his love of fly angling with thousands of people from around the world. In the early 1980's John was a pioneer in the use of two-handed Spey rods. He was one of the first to develop the Spey casting techniques which have grown exponentially in popularity in the past five years. When Sage built their first two-handed rod, John was instrumental in helping them with the design of the rod. Since 1990, John has been a key consultant to the CF Burkheimer fly rod company, particularly in the development of the two-handed series. John is an innovative fly tier whose original patterns have been published in multiple fly fishing publications: i.e. Flies, The Best 1000 by Randle Stetzer, Steelhead Fly Fishing by Trey Combs, Advanced Fly Fishing for Steelhead by Deke Meyer, to name a few. John Hazel's original trout and steelhead patterns are featured in the fly selection at Deschutes Angler Fly Shop. Jake Jordan:
Captain Jake Jordan has spent over half of a century traveling the
world in search of large game fish on light tackle and fly. He is an
excellent educator and communicator, Jordan loves to excite anglers with
his stories regarding his many spectacular fishing adventures.Captain Jordan is a world-famous Florida Keys Tarpon Guide and world-renowned big game fisherman. He is the founder and host of "The Bonefish School," a saltwater fly fishing school held several times a year at the Peace & Plenty Bonefish Lodge in the Bahamas. Jake is a consultant to many first rate Flyfishing lodges and several fly tackle companies; he also designs customized Flyfishing vacation packages and fly fishing schools for anglers throughout the world and is a well known speaker, author, and consultant to the boating, fishing, and fly fishing industries. Jake has authored and or been featured in dozens of articles in most major sport fishing magazines and is considered an expert in all areas of big game sport fishing, and fly fishing. He is also a FFF certified fly casting instructor, an original member of the FFF advisory committee, and a charter member of the IGFA Certified Captains Organization. Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures, Jordan's company, for more than three decades has operated several charter boats out of Marathon in the Florida Keys. Captain Jake Jordan (now 66 years of age) still poles his flats boat with fly anglers aboard in search of Tarpon and Permit during April, May, and June, in the Florida Keys. Jake was an original member of the Mako advisory professional team.  Jay Murikoshi: Jay has been in the fly fishing industry for 35 years. He has been leading fly fishing specialty programs since 1973. He is afounding member of the “Pacific Pro Surf Association.” Over several years, he has taught fly fishing courses at the local junior college. Jay’s specialty is salt water fly fishing, especially the waters off Baja and the Sea of Cortez. He loves to target rooster’s, dorado and yellow fin tuna. He has also ventured to Australia, Honduras, Christmas Island and Costa Rica. During his spare time, he loves striper, large mouth bass and shad fishing. Jay’s commercial tying skills (both design and production) are highly sought after. He started commercially back in 1973. His first commercial account was Orvis. And like the saying goes “the rest is history”. All of his flies are available directly through his website www.fliesunlimited.com. With decades of field experience, Jay has earned a Pro Staff position with numerous companies including G.Loomis, RIO Fly Lines, Bauer Reels, Spirit River and Daiichi.  Craig Neilson: Craig Nielsen is a Northern California native who has been pursuing adventures with a fly rod for over 45 years. He has guided flyfishing since 1992, is a FFF certified casting instructor and taught at the Mel Krieger casting school. He has been casting and fishing with"Switch" rods for over ten years and was one of the first to be published on the subject. Craig's guide service, ShastaTrout features the legendary rivers near his home in Mt. Shasta, walk and wade trips for trout on Hat Creek, the Upper Sacramento, Pit and McCloud Rivers and Driftboat adventures for trophy trout and steelhead on the Lower Sacramento and Klamath Rivers. His experience includes tying flies commercially as a teenager and observing trout behavior in a creek below a deck of his childhood home in Paradise, California. He has been a featured guide for Fish First, Flywater Travel, The Ashland Flyshop, Leland, The Rogue Angler, Ted Fay, The Dunsmuir Flyfishing Company, The Clearwater House and The Flyshop. He holds a Teaching Credential and a Master's degree from Chico State where he worked as an Instructor, Administrator and Counselor before following his passion to guide full time. For more detailed information about Craig and his guide service you can visit his website at http://www.shastatrout.com.  CT Robertson: Phil Rowley: Phil has been fly fishing for over 30 years. His love of fly fishing has taken him across North America pursuing trout, Atlantic and Pacific salmon, char, pike, walleye and numerous other species on the fly. But Phil is best known for his stillwater exploits.A former commercial fly tyer, Phil has written for almost every major fly fishing publication in North America. He has authored three books and numerous feature articles and two regular columns. Phil’s first book Fly Patterns for Stillwaters is a best seller. In addition to his writing, Phil has four instructional DVD’s. In 2007, Phil was a member of the gold medal winning team at the Canadian Fly Fishing championships. When he isn’t on the water Phil travels North America performing at outdoor shows, providing seminars, speaking to fly clubs and conducting fly-fishing schools. Phil also provides instructional stillwater guiding on the lakes located a short distance from his Edmonton area home. Phil has appeared on a number of T.V. shows including, BC Outdoors Sports Fishing, Sport Fishing B.C., Fishing Alberta and Fishing with Shelly and Courtney. Phil is presently one of the co-hosts of the New Fly Fisher, an educational fly fishing production. Make a point of visiting Phil on-line at, www.flycraftangling.com.  John Sherman: John is the West Coast Sales Representative for Simms Fishing Products cover CA, AZ, NV and HI. John is also one of the most published fly fishing photographers who has had his work published in Fly Fisherman, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters, Saltwater Fly Fishing, The Drake, Cal Fly Fisher, North West and South West Fly Fishing to name a few. John lives on the banks of the Ca. Delta in Discovery Bay with his wife Natih, and daughter Kalum and son Kasix. John teamed up with Captain Mike Costello to produce the first and only Fly Fishing book dedicated to the California Delta, "Fly Fishing the CA Delta," has been one of the top selling Fly Fishing books in 2010. He will be presenting his slide show "Fly Fishing for Delta Stripers" which will visually take you through one of California's best fisheries. John's passion for Delta fishing began at the age of 18 on his first trip to California Delta and it now has been his "home" water since 2003. Fly Tiers: Ben Byng Bill Carnazzo Brian Carson "Clear Cure Goo" Gordon Cordova Jeff Currier Loren Elliott Bud Heintz Pudge Kleindauf Peter Koga Steve Korbay Harry Mason David McCants Jay Murakoshi Tim Paxton Joe Phoby Steve Potter Al Ritt John Rohmer Carl Ronk John Ryzanych R.L. "Stew" Stewart Authors:Tba |
Gary Borger:
Gary Borger is one of the world’s foremost fly fishing educators. He
has taught classes and lectured internationally on all aspects of
fly-fishing for trout and salmon since 1972. He is recognized as one of
the world’s leaders in fly designing. He holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and is Professor Emeritus at the
University of Wisconsin Campus in Wausau. He has published widely in
sporting magazines around the world and has written six best-selling
books on fly fishing. Gary pioneered fly fishing video instruction with
his release of "Nymphing" in 1982. Since then he has produced 27
instructional videos and has been featured in various television
programs, including his own production “The Tzar’s Trout.” Gary was a
consultant on Robert Redford's movie "A River Runs Through It." With his
award-winning CD/cassette tape, "My Madison," he pioneered fly fishing,
nature-music audios. In addition, Gary has been design consultant to a
number of manufacturers in the fly fishing industry. He is a member of
the Board of Governors of the Federation of Fly Fisher's fly casting
instructor certification program, a member of many conservation
organizations, and was a founding board member of the River Alliance of
Wisconsin. He has received many awards for conservation, including the
first Lew Jewett Memorial Life Membership in the Federation of Fly
Fishers in 1979. Gary currently writes, lectures, produces videos, and
teaches schools on all aspects of fly fishing and fly tying.
Conway Bowman: Captain Conway Bowman is the owner/operator of Bowman Bluewater and a native San Diegan. He began fly fishing in Idaho at eight. Since then, he's mastered the river, lake and sea. His extensive saltwater experience includes Baja California plus inshore and bluewater up and down the west coast. He co-hosted ESPN's "In Search of Flywater" show, and is the host of "Dollar Wise Fly", currently being shown on the Versus Network. Conway is the current IGFA world record holder of Redfish on 10 kg tippet, a 41.65 pound bull!
Nate Brumley:
Nate Brumley is the owner of Dry Fly Innovations, an online fishing
company that specializes in dry flies, custom all-season boxes, fly
tying DVD’s, and videos. Nate’s unique fly patterns have been created
from the experience of fishing the Northwest for over 45 years. His
renowned presentations and fly tying exhibitions have become the new
standard in fishing instruction on a dry fly and precision fly tying.
The insight and instruction Nate brings to the vice is a priceless
experience guaranteed to make you a better creator of dry flies!!
Joe Contaldi: Joe Contaldi is a force
to be reckoned with when it comes to the Eastern Sierra!! He stalks
trout from The East Walker River in Bridgeport to the Lower Owens River
in Bishop, Ca. And his enthusiasm is catching. This man truly loves
what he does. With each body of water discussed, he shows us what flys
and nymphs he used to lure the wily trout, and how we might procure some
for ourselves.
Nick Curcione:
In addition to his former 35-year career as a university professor,
Nick is an internationally recognized outdoor writer, instructor, and
lecturer and tackle consultant with more than 40 years of angling
experience.
Jeff Currier:
Jeff Currier resides in Victor, Idaho with his wife Yvonne where he
bases his globe-trotting career in fly fishing. He is an active member
of the Ross Professional Advisory Team, Rio Products Advisory Team, a
fly fishing lecturer and well known fish artist. He has taught the
skills of fly fishing, guided fly fishers throughout Wyoming and
Yellowstone National Park and escorted fly fishers throughout six
continents for fish ranging from peacock bass, tarpon, Nile perch,
permit, tigerfish, trevally, taimen and more. This IGFA Record Holder
has fished in over forty countries and caught over 275 species of fish
on the fly! 
George Daniel: George
began fly fishing at age 6 while growing up in Potter County, PA. Many
of the small freestone streams flowing through “God’s Country” became
George’s outdoor laboratory and is where he developed his passion for
fly fishing. Early in his teens, George and his family relocated into
the Centre region where fly fishing legends George Harvey, Joe
Humphreys, and Charles Meck resided. The rich angling history in the
Centre region along with its resident legends was a fruitful area for a
young lad wanting to expand his fly fishing knowledge. At age 16, George
eventually crossed paths with his fly fishing idol, Joe Humphreys at a
local shop. Joe made George a promise that he would find time in his
busy schedule to fish with him one afternoon. Twenty pestering phone
calls later from George, Joe agreed upon a time when he would take
George fishing. From that first time on the water, Joe took George under
his wing as an apprentice and spent countless hours with George, on and
off the water, providing angling knowledge that has allowed George to
successfully enter the fly fishing industry. 
Loren Elliott: Loren
Elliott, at 20 years old, has been an avid angler since as early as he
could hold a rod. Growing up fly fishing on California’s McCloud and
West Carson Rivers, he developed a passion for chasing wild trout. At 14
he was featured in Mikey Wier’s video Fish Eye 3. The next year the two
traveled to Belize for the filming of a segment of Wier’s Soulfish
video. Elliott is based out of the bay area in California and chases
striped bass, perch, and halibut in the surf every chance he gets when
home from college. He and Dave Sellers recently completed a feature
article for Fly Fishing in Saltwaters Magazine about the pursuit of bass
in the surf and it’s history, with Elliott and a memorable fish from
the past season on the cover. When not fishing or studying up at Western
Washington University, Elliott works in the fly fishing department of
Western Sport Shop in San Rafael and conducts clinics on local fisheries
and casting instruction through the store. Elliott is also a skilled
fly tier and enjoys nothing more than innovating new patterns and
sticking fish with them. 
Ed Engle:
Ed Engle’s fly fishing articles have appeared regularly in newspapers
and magazines for more than 30 years. In the 1970’s his articles on
short line nymphing techniques were among the first to appear in
national fly fishing magazines. Since that time he has taught thousands
of fly fishers the subtle art of nymphing through his books and
articles, on-the-water seminars, and at his popular nymphing class
sponsored by the Fly Fishing Show.
Ben Furimsky:
Ben began fly fishing at the age of 5 and was tying flies at age 7. He
has been guiding fly fishing from New Jersey's coast to the mountains
of Colorado, where he now guides on the Gunnison River. Ben's fly
patterns have been featured in numerous magazines, books, and web
sites. A number of his patterns have been contracted out by several
commercial fly tying companies. His designs include his famous BDE and
Foam Drake patterns. His latest series of flies are the Artrickulated
streamers incorporating his unique method of articulating flies. 
Daniel W. Galhardo:
Tenkara USA is a fully independent, US-based company. It was founded
and is run by Daniel W. Galhardo. Daniel has spent years researching and
learning everything he can about tenkara. Truly, tenkara has become his
single most important subject in life, he needs no floatant, no weight
and no reels, yet continues catching trout. In this time he's developed a
strong relationship with tenkara masters in Japan, particularly Dr.
Hisao Ishigaki, the most prominent tenkara angler in Japan. He relies on
their knowledge and feedback to ensure all products are of very high
quality. No one in the US has come to know as much about tenkara as he
does. This knowledge and relationships show in the quality of the
products offered by Tenkara USA, which have acquired renown worldwide
and applause from his masters in Japan.Home | Raleigh, NC | Denver, CO | Marlborough, MA | Pasadena, CA | Lancaster, PA | Pleasanton, CA | Somerset, NJ | Exhibitor Information | Contact Us |
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