Guided Angling
Expect the best guided experience here!
A guided angling experience should give you back more than what you pay for the service. Our guided angling services are built on the foundation of giving the ‘best-in-class’ angling experience. From the moment we meet to the time we enter the water and then finish the day, we focus on providing you with a positive guided experience that you’ll remember for a long time to come. You work hard for your money and you should expect the best.
All trips include: Use of fly rods & flies, guide, stream side snacks, and to remember your day, a set of photos!
GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE!
We provide guided trips for trout on the following waters:
Willowemoc
Beaverkill
Neversink River Gorge
Esopus Creek
Email us for our current availability of guided adventure dates at dirksoutdoors@gmail.com.
Learn Tenkara
Tenkara “Fish and Learn” Guided Trips
Learn & Fish Guided Trips: We offer full day, guided tenkara “learn & fish” fly fishing trout fishing trips on a number of excellent trout streams here in the Catskills. There is no better way to learn the art and craft of tenkara fly fishing than to actually DO it! We provide tenkara rods and lines along with authentic tenkara patterns that you get to use during the trip.
These guided trips are great for both new and experienced fly anglers.
These “learn & fish” trips are very popular and book quickly so please call or email us for availability.
For dates/times & registration and bookings, call 845-674-2299 or email: dirksoutdoors@gmail.com.
About Tenkara Fly Fishing
Published here courtesy of TenkaraUSA.com
Tenkara is the traditional Japanese method of fly-fishing where only a rod, line and fly are used.
Tenkara is about fly-fishing simplicity and mountain-stream effectiveness. Eleven to fourteen foot long rods allow anglers to fish mountain streams in a way that is nearly impossible with western fly gear. Telescopic rods collapse down to a mere 20 inches, and few things are needed making tenkara ideal for backpacking.
Tenkara is primarily used and particularly effective for trout fishing in mountain streams and small streams. Some of the main advantages are its simplicity, the very delicate presentations with the light line, the ability to hold the line off the water and a fly in place over difficult currents, precise casting, and great control of the fly.
Only rod, line and fly are used. The line is attached directly to the tip of the rod, tippet is attached to the end of the tenkara line. Like in western fly-fishing the line propels the weightless fly to the desired target and there is a fly-casting technique involved – just a bit slower, and with a shorter casting stroke. Landing a fish is very intuitive and similar to any type of fishing with a rod: one simply raises the rod high, and reaches for the fish.
To purchase the best Tenkara equipment and supplies, we highly recommend: www.tenkarausa.com