Does anyone know of a fly fishing guide school that is located on the East coast?? I live in VA and it looks like the only easy to find guide schools are in CO, MT, Etc. Please let me know!!
Thanks, GT2FLY
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Does anyone know of a fly fishing guide school that is located on the East coast?? I live in VA and it looks like the only easy to find guide schools are in CO, MT, Etc. Please let me know!!
Thanks, GT2FLY
Check with Orvis. I am not sure but if my impaired memory serves correctly they have a program.
Joan Wulff is in NY. Can't do much better than that.
http://www.royalwulff.com/schools.html#courses
LL Bean has Fly Fishing Schools ,1/2 day fresh or salt ,2 day in Maine or Virginia Blue Ridge Mts. Drift boat fishing, Spey course and a three day fly fishing camp llbean.com/ods. BILL
Gramps, no offense please, in fact we have been friends of hers for a long time, but, I don't think she is teaching any 'guide' type classes. There are schools just for that now 'a days. Myself, I can't understand the idea. I have talked to some of the guys teaching them and still don't get it. It takes a particular type of person and a hell of a lot of knowledge and 'moxie' and some sort of an X factor to be a guide. Not what I figure can be taught. Some stuff, sure, like first aid etc. and fly fishing, but,,, how to guide 101? Anyway,,, heck,,, go for it. Hope the fellow finds a good school and does great.
Oops! :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by J Castwell
Hey, no 'ooops' required. It was just my opinion was all. :D
OOPs also--Does he wants a school to become a guide ? I thought all you had to do is be a good area ffisher know any state requirements and advertize.BILL
I also somewhat agree with Bill Fitz,
Guiding school is "life". You first have to know how to be comfortable with all types of personalities and be articulate and conversant in many fields. Oh, and I almost forgot you should be a pretty knowledgable fly fisherman too. If you feel you need a "school"? , well, never mind.
Mark
I don't know of any courses for guides in the east, but I do know there are quite a few offered in the west.
I will have to take exception though to the less than enthusiastic endorsement that some have made here about guide schools.
While it is probably true that it takes a particular type of person to be a guide, as it takes a "particular type of person" to be successful at any profession, a good guide school, like any school, should cover most of the basic skill sets that guides use day in and day out. What one does with those skill sets may set a good guide apart from a run-of-the-mill one.
I'm sure there are plenty of persons who go to these schools simply to learn more about fly fishing, etc. with no plans to ever be a guide, the same as many people take a fly tying course with no intention of ever being a professional fly tyer.
Maybe these "Guide Schools" sould be renamed as "Guide to fly fishing courses".
John