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Meet The Staff: Dusty Wissmath


TCO Boiling Springs: Dusty Wissmath 


When did you start working at TCO?

I started working at TCO just prior to the Boiling Springs opening in 2016.

What is your favorite place you have fly fished? (Near or Far)

Ledford Creek, SW MT. 


What music is being played on your way to the stream? 

Turnpike Troubadours, Sam Bush.


Besides fly fishing, what other outdoor activities do you enjoy?

Upland bird hunting, telemark skiing. 


Dusty's Bio

Dusty grew up in Missouri, started fly fishing when he was eight years old, and spent his formative years highly distracted by the sport. He began guiding and teaching fly fishing in the early seventies while working on a degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of Wyoming. Living in Jackson after dropping out of law school, he tied commercially for High Country Flies and guided the Snake, Green and New Fork Rivers and in Yellowstone National Park.

In 1996 he founded the Dusty Wissmath Fly Fishing School & Guide Service in the hills near Mercersburg, PA where it quickly earned a reputation as a professional, yet easygoing fly fishing school. As well as directing his own school, he heads the Orvis Fly Fishing School in Boiling Springs, PA, is an instructor at the Wulff School of Fly Fishing and served as the lead instructor at L.L. Bean's Fly Fishing School in Virginia. He guides in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Montana and hosts trips to fly fishing destinations worldwide. Dusty is a Simms and Costa Guide Ambassador and a Pro Staff member of Scott Fly Rods, Hatch Reels and Hyde Drift Boats. His writing and photography can be found in several fly fishing publications. When not on or near the water, Dusty can be found chasing grouse and woodcock with Jim the Wonder Dog..