Rick Kustich is a fly-fishing writer, instructor, and guide who began fly-fishing fifty years ago on the lakes and streams of upstate New York. His work has appeared in numerous national and regional publications. Rick is author of Modern Spey Fishing (2023), Hunting Musky with a Fly (2017) and Advanced Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead (2013) as well as four other titles including the best-selling Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead co-authored with his brother Jerry. He is featured in the film Spey Daze and is the Great Lakes editor for Swing the Fly Magazine. Rick has also spent time as a fly-shop owner, travel host, and fly-fishing book publisher and lives in Western New York. Find out more on Instagram/Facebook: @rickkustich
Dave served for 5 years as a Paratrooper in the Elite Canadian Airborne Regiment and 3 years in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (of Afghanistan fame). His infantry leadership experience has carried over into the development of Dave Brown Outfitters. This is evident in his “hands on” approach to outfitting, his ability to lead and empower his team members, and his determination to always be on the “cutting edge” of developing new venues for his clients. The result is the largest outfitting operation of its kind in Western Canada.
Dave is a true “Trout Bum” He ventured into Fly-fishing and Fly-tying at age 13. Since then Dave has fly-fished on numerous rivers, streams, lakes and flats in 5 Canadian provinces, Arizona, California, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New York State and in Cuba. Dave began his Guiding Career in 1988 on The Bow River. Since then has been active in the Western Canadian fly fishing industry in a variety of capacities including: Fly shop manager, head guide, fly fishing instructor and, for the last 15 years, as a fly shop/guide service operator and full-time outfitter and lodge owner.Dave is a past-President of the Jumping Pound Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada and is the Vice President of the newly formed Southern Arizona Chapter of Quail Forever 
I am a Stroudsburg native. I taught English at Stroudsburg High School for 30 years and served in the United States Army in 1969-71. I earned an M.S. in aquatic biology, and since 1980 have worked as a biologist with Aquatic Resource Consulting. A fly fisherman and tier since age 11, I wrote the booklet Pocono and Upper Delaware Hatches, was published in Rod & Reel, and authored over 60 technical reports for Aquatic Resource Consulting. I conducted a course available on a 3DVD set - Trout Stream Entomology & Fly Tying. In 2019 I published a book titled The Brodhead; an Historic Trout Fishery.
Mike Rosa is a seasoned fly fishing guide and the owner of Stream Bred Anglers, a full-service guiding operation based in central and eastern Pennsylvania. With over 25 years of fishing experience, Mike has cultivated a deep passion for exploring Pennsylvania's diverse waterways, from the Susquehanna and Juniata to the Schuylkill and Lehigh rivers. His expertise spans targeting species such as wild brown trout, smallmouth bass, musky, and carp using various fly fishing techniques, including euro nymphing, dry fly, and streamer fishing.
Mike's approach to guiding emphasizes both adventure and education. He offers personalized float and wade trips, often venturing into less-traveled waters to provide clients with unique fishing experiences. His dedication to the sport extends beyond guiding; he actively participates in fly tying instruction and collaborates with organizations like TCO Fly Shop and Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, supporting veterans through therapeutic angling activities. 
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Matthew Supinski is a book author/editor/fly fishing guide/outfitter/hospitality hotel/restaurant consultant/DVD producer/instructor, lodge owner and operator, free-lance writer and photographer, book author and culinary trained chef from Newaygo, Michigan. He has been fly fishing and cooking/foraging the wilds since the age of seven for 46 years, having been brought up in the Niagara Frontier of upstate New York and spending time as a boy in Poland. Prior to being a full-time fly fishing guide/writer/author, he was in the international corporate hotel business working in Europe and the U.S. for several hotel chains - Sheraton, Omni, Renaissance and Westin hotels as a corporate food and beverage director overseeing multiple hotels throughout NorthAmerica. He has written extensively for Hotel/Restaurants/Resort and Culinary magazines.
After working 22 years for R.L. Winston Rods, Jerry Kustich left the company in 2006 to start Sweetgrass Rods with his longtime friend, mentor, and bamboo rod master Glenn Brackett. Kustich is a bamboo craftsman, writer, conservationist, and a dedicated fly angler. For several years he worked with Trout Unlimited on access and resource issues throughout Montana. He has authored four books of fly fishing stories and essays about his travels. His latest is entitled Holy Water. He also co-authored Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead with his brother Rick, which has become a classic. His articles have appeared in several publications, and throughout his semi-retirement years he continues to build rods for Sweetgrass at his shop in Maryland while also maintaining a fly-fishing way of life.
The current "craze" of Big Streamers for Big trout, which is now running across the globe, started at the dawn of the millennium when Mark Sedotti first brought his big Sedotti's Slammer Bunker Flies from his home in Port Chester, NY, located along the shores of Long Island Sound, to the rivers of Northern Michigan. Soon after that he took them to the big-trout filled tailwaters of Arkansas. In these locales "big flies" for trout germinated into a "movement", which then boomeranged back to the Catskills and New England, afterward travelling out West, and then going across the Atlantic to Europe and Scandinavia, finally spreading out over the world.
Sedotti also discovered an important, very overlooked, and primary reason why flies are castable with a fly rod, "Weight Balancing", the concept that a fly needs just the right amount of weight in it to counteract and "balance" the forces of drag created by the fly's wind resistant materials so that the fly is easily castable. (It works the other way around too, where a heavy fly requires the right amount of "materials" to counteract it's weight.) Weight Balancing holds for flies of all sizes, even very small, but is most noticeable with very big ones ( say 10, 12, 17, even 27 inches long). He was the first to make big and giant flies not only castable, but (with weight balancing) surprisingly easy and effortless to cast. Mark was working with this revolutionary concept starting in 1991, and it (weight balancing) to this day has still hardly been noticed let alone accepted by the fly fishing community. 
Ray Miller has been fishing and hunting since he was a young man and fly fishing for over 35 years. It all began in the suburbs of Philadelphia, day in and day out Ray was wandering the countryside with his pals looking for the next adventure, whether it be honing his fishing skills on the many stocked trout that resided in the waters of his home town or chasing pheasants and deer along the beautiful fields that lined historic Bucks County, Pa. Ray Currently hosts international and domestic trips to such exciting locations as Chile, Argentina, Alaska, Canada, Belize, Upper Delaware River, South Andros, Bahamas, and others. Ray currently is involved in video production and is presently working on a series of instructional videos for fly fishing and wing shooting, promotional videos for outdoor lodges, a fly fishing documentary and a television series.
Photography has always been a part of Miller's life, from his early years with the Nikon EM which his parents bought him as a Christmas gift at just 10 years of age to today where Ray wanders the globe in search of the perfect light with all the modern photographic gadgets. |
