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Bio

            I'm a guide in Missoula Montana and spend every day floating one of the several perfect trout rivers that shape this part of the state. After eight years, this fact is still sinking in for me. I grew up in Vermont and in some ways, my New England roots still shape my appreciation for Montana's vast, unpolished beauty and limitless fishing. Magazine articles, library fishing literature and tackle catalogs took their inevitable toll on me as a young man. I devoured any fly fishing-related publication I got my hands on and began to imagine the geography of the planet in terms of fish. I would need to move to Montana one day, it seemed.

            When your like me, finding excuses to go fishing is as important a skill as any. My enrollment at the University of Montana in 2008 may be one of my best excuses yet. After a post-high school four-month New Zealand trout quest, I stuffed as much gear as I could into my little Toyota and merged onto I-90 west. It was time to get professional. I'm proud of my six-year undergraduate degree in brown trout studies with a minor in drift boat management and I've been in Missoula ever since.

            Scott fly rods have been my tool of choice for many seasons now and I'm quite honored to be a member of the pro staff team. As a company I've always felt that they were closer to the sport than any one else in the business. I appreciate their approach to the fly rod more and more as time goes by. The G2 885 may be the best New Zealand spring creek rod ever made. And I love nothing more than dropping the anchor upstream from a pod of mahogany sippers on the lower Bitterroot, Radian 904 in hand, knowing I at least don't have to blame anything that goes wrong on the rod. If I ever make it back to Vermont during the fishing season, it will be with my fiber touch tucked under my arm. Taking it nice and slooow on the small water where it all started for me.