Welcome to Fly Water Travel
Thank you for visiting. Fly Water Travel is a team of fly fishing and travel experts exclusively dedicated to arranging trips to the world’s finest fishing destinations. We are experienced anglers and passionate travelers who are faithfully committed to making sure our customers have the best angling experience possible. We hope you find the information on this site useful and maybe even inspirational. If you have any questions about the details of any trip you see or just want to talk to someone who has been there please give us a call. We look forward to hearing from you.

~ Ken, Brian, Rachel, Margaret, and Lindy

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"I am impressed with the depth of your knowledge and your consistent honesty. It made the booking process very easy." D.M., NY

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"I have traveled just enough to know that your Flywater Team is exceptional and I want to thank each of you for putting together such a flawless itinerary and trip. We moved around a lot and there were many opportunities for things to get off track but your attention to the details had it nailed from start to finish. Very professional and very well done. Thanks again, I look forward to creating a lot more memories with your Flywater Team." D.G., TX

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“Fly Water Travel gets an A+++ rating in customer service and support through every step of info gathering, booking and follow-up. You all ROCK! I am certain that the Fly Water Catalog will remain on our coffee table throughout the year.” M.L., CO

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 "We will book with Fly Water Travel again. Your company is top notch! Thanks for providing such a great experience!" D.S., CA

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 "I think the most important point for a salesperson is to accurately portray the experience to the client. You hit the nail on the head, as usual." M.G., PA

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Brian is an experienced angler and world traveler with stamps on his passport from as close to home as Mexico, as far away as Mongolia and Nepal and most every angling destination in between. His formal background is in accounting and business management. While well versed in all of Fly Water’s offerings, Brian is a true authority on the fisheries of New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, the American West, Christmas Island, and Mongolia. Brian’s business savvy, attention to detail, and dry humor make him the ideal business manager and an invaluable asset to Fly Water customers. Brian is the company’s Chief Financial Officer and secondary photographer.

Ken is a fourth generation fly fisher who has guided throughout Alaska, Oregon, and California.He has taught hundreds of students the fundamentals of the sport, managed fly shops, consulted with leading fly rod manufacturers and designed an extensive line of popular fly patterns produced by Idylwilde Flies of Portland, Oregon. Ken is an accomplished writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Patagonia, Outside, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod and Reel, Northwest Fly Fishing, Wild Steelhead and Salmon, and other popular publications. Ken serves as Fly Water’s Chief Operating Officer, primary photographer, and catalog copywriter.

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Rachel has come to us with over ten years experience in the industry. She has done everything from guiding to selling international travel and is widely regarded as one of the, most well informed, and highly skilled female anglers in the nation. For over a decade, her love of fly fishing has taken her to fish all over the world, including the Bahamas, Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico, Tahiti, Christmas island, Russia, Chile, Argentina, and Alaska.

As a Federation of Flyfishers Certified Casting Instructor, Rachel has taught for the Mel Krieger Schools and was the director of the family and children’s summer FISHCAMPS for seven years. She has been a guest instructor at the International Womens Flyfishing Festival in San Diego and Northern California, she is the founder of the Shasta Mayflies (Redding’s Womens Fly fishing Club), and she is a member of the Scott Rods pro staff. Rachel has been published in Northwest Flyfishing and The Womens No-Nonsense Guide to Favorite Waters and is a sought after instructor and public speaker on a wide variety of fly fishing topics.  She is a board member of the International Women Fly Fishers and a member of the Fly Fishers Club of Oregon.  Most recently, Rachel was an angler in the "Chasing Silver" episode Location X by Howard Films and "Soulfish" by Fisheye videos.

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“For the past 28 years, our group has fished in various locations across North America. Historically, we have researched new locations by ourselves, checking the fly shows, reading the magazines, and more recently, searching the Internet. This year, we used Fly Water Travel. Their representative, Rachel Andras, was extremely knowledgeable and very helpful in the review and selection process. She has fished many of the waters they represent and was able to find just the right outfitter and arrangements for our group. The information provided prior to the trip was timely, informative and accurate for the excursion. We would highly recommend Rachel and her organization.” S.C., MN

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Charles is the newest member of the Fly Water Travel sales team and specializes in the trout and steelhead fisheries of the Pacific Northwest, the Rockies, and British Columbia. A passionate and experienced angler, he has spent the past five years as a full-time trout and steelhead guide on Oregon’s Deschutes River. Prior to his tenure on the Deschutes, Charles lived in Ashland, OR and fished the waters of Southern Oregon and Northern California extensively. Charles is an excellent fly tier, an extremely gifted spey caster and the best informed member of our staff on spey tackle and techniques. A University of Wyoming alumni, Charles also has a deep affection for and knowledge of the vast and varied trout fisheries of the Rockies and the American West. His overriding passion for the outdoors and wild places has lead him to guide white water, rock climbing, and fly fishing, row the Grand Canyon, backpack long sections of the Appalachian Trail, and kayak countless rivers from coast to coast.

Margaret comes to Fly Water with many years of experience in the corporate world in a variety of management positions. She has traveled extensively in Central and South America, lived in Argentina, and worked on the Amazon in Brazil. Closer to home, Margaret’s love of backpacking has taken her throughout the Northwest including Alaska, Montana, Washington and Oregon. Margaret serves as Fly Water Travel’s Office Manager and takes immaculate care of the countless administrative details that underlie each trip.

Lindy is the newest member of the Fly Water team. She comes to us with many years of experience in high-level corporate event planning as well as numerous other project management positions. Lindy has studied in Vienna, skied in Austria, gone on safari in Kenya and rafted the Colorado River. To date she has visited five continents and remains an avid traveler. At Fly Water, Lindy serves as our primary Sales Assistant/Travel Coordinator and oversees the countless travel related details that go into the planning of each trip.

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"Many many thanks!! I really appreciate all you did to help make my trip a success!!  My friends at Fly Water are all the best professionals I could ever work with!"  K.H., CA

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