We have been avid fishermen for years. Fly fishing the Catskills has been a passion of ours and an experience we love to share others.
We seek the adventure and the memories we share with our clients are things we will hold onto forever.
Our Guides
Steve Spencer
https://www.instagram.com/kingchromer/
Fly fishing for me has been a life long journey. I was born into fishing, it’s a part of my family’s heritage. In my adolescent years, my father and grandfather would influence me to fish after school and on weekends. The small, stocked creeks in Northern New Jersey is where my education in fly fishing began.
As a young adult, I moved to Oregon and experienced some of its greatest treasures in fishing. Red banded trout on the Deschutes River, small mouth bass on the John Day, salmon and steelhead from the Puget Sound down through the Cascade Mountain range. The time spent in this region ignited my knowledge and motivational drive. Around 2010, I began tying my own flies. Growing up, I watched my father spend countless hours on the vise, tying every variation of single hook fly available. He is no stranger to how a fly is tied. I now create my own articulated streamers and modern day nymphs for the Upper Delaware Watershed.
In 2013, I was first introduced to the Upper Delaware. That humorous and sometimes unbelievable story about the one that got away is used by every fisherman. That story also applies here. My first trout on the West Branch of the Delaware was never seen and got away. Experiences and memories like that one, gives fly fishermen and fisherwomen the drive and motivation to fish more and learn more. Not long after, I began to take friends and family on floats down the various tributaries of the Delaware
River. I now guide on one of the country’s most prestigious river systems in the country.
The time I don’t spend fly fishing on the rivers of the Upper Delaware, is spent chasing the migrating fish up and down the coastline. Fishing is a passion, there are so many species and places to fish. One can only hope to fish for them all.
See you on the river!
Richard McCombie
https://www.instagram.com/scottish_rick/
Born in Edinburgh Scotland, Richard used to fish off the ledges of jagged rocks in the harbour of Dunbar. Richard moved to Copenhagen Denmark at the age of 12, to live with his mother’s family on a farm where he continued to develop his childhood pleasure of fishing for sea run browns, fluke, flounder, pike, mackerel, and cod. Circumstances were such that 4 years later, it was time to ship off to his Stepfather’s homeland of Israel. The act of fishing wasn’t so prominent here because learning the language and serving 3 years in the Israeli Armed forces, took Richard’s attention away from his most desired pastime. Nevertheless, in his mid 20’s he came to America with the intention of staying for only six months, but after purchasing a home, starting a business, and having two young children, Richard became too rooted to go back to his homeland(s). Over the years, Richard used this time in America to take many memorable trips that have molded his passion ever since. Aside from the CT rivers such as the Housatonic and the Farmington, the NY rivers such as the Willowemoc, the Beaverkill, the West Branch, the East Branch, the Main Stem of the Delaware, Pulaski, and the Croton Water Shed, excursions to Montana, Colorado, the Florida Keys, Cape Cod, Alaska, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden all provided further knowledge of characteristic water patterns, hatches, and available fish. In 2003, Richard sold his company shares and took a year off to fish for wild rainbows and browns, while learning his home rivers. He extensively fished the Housatonic, the Farmington, the Beaver Kill, the West Branch, the Main Stem of the Delaware, and Cape Cod. He also became a Licensed New York State Fly Fishing Guide in 2004.
Chris Fazio
Catskill Fly Fishing Guides 