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We strive to give each and every guest in our shop a welcome, unintimidating feeling of comfort and trust.
Our goal is to get you what you need, when you need it. If you don't know where to go to fish, we'll tell you. If you don't know what to use there, we will help you find it or tie it or rig it.

Peter Corbett

Pete started Fly Fishing at the age of 8 or 9, but really got into it in the mid 80's. After a Steelhead trip with his father in 1984 he was hooked and moved to the northwest in 1986. On his way out to Seattle, he stopped at Yellowstone Park for a day of fishing that turned into a week. What was once a favorite pastime slowly became an obsession and after acquiring more rods, reels and waders than he knew what to do with, he and Hugh decided the only thing they didn’t have was a Fly Shop, so in 1994 they opened Creekside Angling Company. Pete has fished all over Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. He's caught Tarpon in the keys, Permit in Belize, Bonefish in Mexico, Tuna and Stripped Bass in the Atlantic and Trout in the Catskills. Pete’s favorite places to fish are Montana Spring Creeks. Long leaders, tiny flies, and the thrill of stalking large trout make it in his opinion, "The ultimate challenge". When not fishing in Montana, Peter can be found upland bird hunting in Eastern Washington and Cental Oregon. He is happy to show you where to find the best fishing and hunting in the Northwest.

Keith Willits

Keith has been fishing his entire life, and flyfishing for the last 20 or so years. His first serious interest in fishing was gear fishing for steelhead, but once he picked up a fly rod he was hooked.Keith prefers to fish for trout in larger western steams, and also enjoys fishing the salt for just about anything that swims from ling cod to searun cutts. His favorite spot is the Yakima river in Central Washington, it's relatively close to Seattle and has some fantastic hatches. Allowed a few extra days for travel, you'll find Keith on his way to say, southeastern Idaho. Keith also has a photography business, the focus is on landscapes and macro entomology. Keith has fished all over Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, Alaska and British Columbia.

Dan Lemaich

Dan has been fly fishing since 1962, and has fished all over the United States, and a bit in Mexico and the Bahamas. Dan has been working in specialty fly fishing retail for over 26 years. A resident of Camano Island, Dan's affinity for the saltwater has developed into more than a significant offshoot of his decades-old passion for steelhead on the fly. He has been and instructor and mentor for countless flyfishers over the years, and has a significant following, to say the least. As a professional rock & roll drummer, Dan has countless stories of life on the road in the 60's & 70's, when his band opened for acts like the Animals, Lovin' Spoonful and the Yardbirds. Dan partied with Joe Walsh in Denver in 1971. If Dan could choose any place and any time to take his last fishing trip, he would choose the Methow River in October, 1984, when he hooked 23 steelhead on a floating line in 3 1/2 days of fishing, and didn't talk to another fisherman.

Hugh Pastoriza

Fishing with flies in the West has turned out to be just the beginning for Hugh, and before the expansion of his lineage, he managed to fish about 100 days each year on both the wonderful home waters of Washington state, as well as Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Opening Creekside with business partner and angling mentor Pete Corbett accelerated Hugh's passion for Fly Fishing. His fondest angling memories are mostly from warmer, shallower waters in Belize and the Bahamas, but Hugh's roots are in trout fishing the cold waters of Washington, Montana and Yellowstone. More recent excursions to northern British Columbia have broadened the angling illness significantly. These days Hugh is anxiously awaiting the end of diapers for his youngest son, at which point he will resume his regular regimen of fishing more than not fishing. Have a look at the fishing reports and the archives...if you crack a smile, you've made his day.

Charlie Robinton

Charlie has tried very hard not to let his obsession with fly fishing take over his entire life... and failed... in epic proportion. His parents knew there was something wrong with him at a young age when he would dissapear for hours after school only to return home after dark ranting wildly about monster largemouths and smelling of fish. His affliction soon grew beyond small local lakes and ponds and spread to the vast system of rivers and streams which stretch like arteries across the landscape of Northern California where he spent his childhood, adolescense and college years. During this time he fished for every species he could in every river or stream possible, from slab carp in the UC Davis Arboretum to halfpounder steelhead in the American, Yuba, Feather and Trinity systems. Fly fishing took hold of his life for good when he left college, and brought him to Driggs, Idaho where he spent his days guiding on the South Fork of the Snake River and learning the wonders of the fabled Chernobyl Ant. He has since made a home for himself in Seattle, Washington where he currently resides. When not in the shop he can be found guiding, frantically tying flies for his next outing or more than likely standing with his feet in a body of water and his fly riding the currents, searching for the next fix.

Brett Wedeking

Having grown up in Washington Brett has been forced to fish basically his whole life. It’s been tough. He started out with a lot of bass and perch fishing on Lake Washington and in Eastern Washington. Brett has fly fished off and on since the age of 12 but have been a fly fishing fiend for the last 8 years. Brett is a self described ‘trout nerd’ and can often be found bushwhacking into mountain creeks or cursing snooty fish on a spring creek but…he also craves spey casting for steelhead and salmon. Beach fishing for cutts is a blast and Brett would sell body parts to science just to crawl inside someone’s luggage to make it onto a saltwater flat. So in other words, if it’s water, he’ll fish it. Brett is an avid fly tier, and enjoys coming up with new, sexy, buggy patterns. Brett is also into hiking/climbing because it gets me to where the least fished places are. As one of our main instructors, Brett truly enjoys teaching newcomers because it’s so great to see that light bulb turn on when they get it. Brett has been skunked all over the West, British Columbia, Alberta, Alaska, New Zealand, Hawaii and The Bahamas... the list is constantly growing.

Wayne Jordan

In the Summer of 1981 his grandfather taught him how to fly fish on the small streams in Southern Maine with an Eagle Claw fly rod bought from the local drug store for $20.00. This was the start of Wayne's education & obsession with fly fishing. From this point on in his life everything revolved around catching fish & exploring new places. 25 years later he's still learning, and he's still obsessed with fly fishing.

Ryan Bailey

It all began on a typical rainy day on the Greenwater when father handed son a fly rod and repeatedly yelled, '"Watch yer backcast!" From that day forth Ryan has been fly fishing like a crazed Sasquatch running off with a case of Rainier. Goonie-Goo-Goo! A wise man once said ,“Not all those who wander are lost.” (Yes that is a Tolkien quote.) Taking this to heart he has wandered all of the west, mastering the art of being skunked for trout on such famous rivers as the San Juan, Snake, Madison, Lamar and his home water, the Yakima. He decided to move on to the more difficult task of trying his best to not catch that mythical chrome beast, the steelhead. So far he has exceeded even in this. He has fished/guided in Jackson Hole, Durango, Alaska, Washington and on the San Juan and Yellowstone National Park. When not in the shop Ryan can be seen throwing everything under the sun on any of Washington's steelhead rivers or chasing trout on the Yakima. It's been 25 years since that fateful day his father placed a rod in his hand and he is still wandering looking for new places to fish.