Pat Pendergast
If there were a qualifications list for the job as director of The Fly Shop Travel Department, the resume for that position would read like Pat Pendergast’s biography. He came to The Fly Shop a little more than a dozen years ago in 1996. . > read more

Mike Mercer
Mike Mercer is one of those guys who gives the world around him his full, undivided attention. Imbued with grace and tireless in his lifelong pursuit of fish on a fly, he’s a danger to fish everywhere, and an unmatched authority when it comes to honest, objective advice about the great fisheries of our planet. > read more

Ryan Peterson
Like many employees at The Fly Shop, we found Ryan as he had come up momentarily for air between a long succession of amazingly unique and fascinating life experiences (and he was only 27 that year!) Born and raised in Alaska, Ryan showed up for work in a well-worn woolen shirt, Carhartts, and a pair of battered sorels. Our kind of guy. > read more

Bill Marts
Bill is what you’d call a “citified” country boy. He was raised in rural Oklahoma and cut his teeth fishing farm ponds with a cane pole for bream or anything else that would eat a crawdad or minnow, including snapping turtles – that’s another story you’ll have to ask him about. When the fishing got slow he’d take his .22 rifle, .410 shotgun or bow and arrow and hunt bullfrogs, rabbits, squirrels or just about anything else that moved.  > read more