Tippets: GuideHire, Smallmouth Flies, Sheep Creek Copper Mine

June 25, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Newly developed GuideHire offers a platform to find and book guides quickly and easily. “With more than 27,000 guides nationwide operating as part of the $1 billion outdoor industry, you’d think it’d be easy to book a fishing trip in Colorado,” writes Ben Yeager. “Turns out it’s not.” Read more about this start-up created by James Hamilton and MacGill Davis via Outside Magazine.
  • From the tried and true Whitlock’s Near Nuff Crayfish to the cutting-edge articulated Zoo Cougar by Kelly Galloup, Kip Vieth of Wildwood Float Trips runs down his list of the top ten subsurface flies for smallmouth bass.
  • Montana’s Smith River is threatened by a massive proposed copper mine along Sheep Creek, a major tributary. Read more from American Rivers, and help take part to protect this watershed and fishery from mining pollution.