A guided flyfishing trip on a beautiful secluded mountain stream is so much easier than going alone. You can look up mapquest and you won't find any information on streams or lakes. You can study all the topo maps and you will never find which streams are good and which are not. Your guide knows. That is just one reason for hiring a guide.Your guide is also an accomplished flycaster and very adept at teaching others the skills necessary to place their fly with accuracy and finesse. For those anglers who are accomplished flycasters in their own right, well.....your guide is very good at netting trout also!

Which fly? When? Where? These are questions that all novice flyfishers ask themselves when they walk a stream. Wondering which fly to use for each situation will often confuse the beginner and ultimately result in the angler just tying on one pattern and pounding the water with it all day. Your guide will show you the proper methods involved when selecting fly patterns, building and maintaining proper leaders / tippets and casting techniques. These skills are necessary if you want to catch wild trout. Having a good knowledge of streamside entomology and experience in fly pattern selection, combined with reasonably good casting skill will usually result in catching plenty of trout.

Hooking and landing large trout consistantly requires a few variables to fall into place. First you must have access to waters that hold big trout. Second you will need the casting skill to put your offering, be it nymph, streamer or dryfly in front of the trout with enough finesse that you don't spook the fish. Last but not least, you must offer up something that the trout finds appealing. Sounds simple enough until you get there to the stream, lake or pond where these large trout are lurking, just waiting for you to make your move. Then you find that the wind is howling, it's clouding up and looks like rain. Don't worry, the fish are underwater. They don't care about the weather!  There is usually a way to make do when the weather is bad and casting is difficult. This is why your guide will always insist that you have a good rain jacket. Then the weather isn't such an issue. Sometimes it seems that the trout are off their feed. Trout are always feeding. Trout are opportunist predators. Especially large trout. This is a time to improvise and find a technique that will produce results. This is why you have a guide along. When push comes to shove and the trout won't come out, your guide will usually pull out a few tricks to make it happen.

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