John Kirby, Montana Outfitter
#4713
Oregon Marine Board License #3965
John has over 35 years experience fishing north coastal Oregon, the great rivers, streams, and trophy stillwaters of the Greater Yellowstone Basin of Montana and, more recently, the Missouri River below Holter Dam. Beginner through advanced fly casting and fly fishing instruction is his specialty - John ran the first Orvis Schools in Montana in the early '70's and was the featured guide for Slim Pickins and George Mendoza on a nationally televised episode of the American Sportsman.
John has been spending an inordinate amount of time chasing salmon and steelhead on the Oregon coast, so he picked up his U.S. Coast Guard license for guiding in navigable waters. He follows the fish, but prefers the coastal river systems such as the Siletz, Nahalem, Yaquina, and the rivers of and tidewaters of Tillamook Bay.
While there are no guarantees, his experience, personality, and education (John has a B.S. in Cold Water Fisheries & Limnology) combined with extensive access to private water all work to insure a successful trip! In Montana, his favorite fishing is sight casting for those huge rainbow that frequent our trophy stillwaters. A close second goes to finding and fishing the pods on the "Mighty Missouri" below Holter Dam in June, followed by casting hoppers to cutbank browns in August. But they pale by comparison to the incredible spunk of chrome bright salmon and steelhead in the coastal river systems and tidewater areas.
(Photos by J. Maushardt)
John is headquartered out of Tillamook, Oregon.
For more information, call 406 930.1133 or visit his web site at www.johnkirby.com.