Scott Pros

I grew up, as I’m sure many of us did, fishing salmon eggs from the bank with a spinning rod.  My grandparents had a cabin on a small reservoir near Mancos, Colorado, and every summer I spent countless hours there trying to catch my limit. I have not been back to that lake in many years.  I don’t own a single piece of conventional tackle.  The cabin was sold long ago.   

 

But once I started fly fishing, I never looked back. 

 

Chuck Rizuto gave me my first job on the San Juan River when I was seventeen.  After that first summer on the San Juan I began piecing together a college degree.  After graduating, I headed straight back to the river.  For the last fifteen years I have been guiding full time for Duranglers in SW Colorado.  From our shop in Durango we guide to too many places to mention here, but a few of my favorites are: the Rio Grande, San Juan, Piedra, Dolores and Pine rivers. 

 

My wife, Sarah, and I live on a small farm just south of Durango.  When I’m not guiding or fishing one of the many great rivers in our area, I enjoy being at the farm with Sarah and our son, Gus.   

 

P.S.,  here’s what I love to do: Fish for fish that won’t eat; watch a client’s Salmon Fly get crushed by a brown trout when I’m cranking on the oars; go steelheading; Catch-Kill-Eat Northern Pike; cast a two-hander; wet wade a high country stream; sight fish for big technical rainbows; see a rooster fish cruising the trough; streamer fish with my buddies; go on fishing trips and generally do anything that involves a mandatory end-o-the-day beer.