Dylan Rose
Professional Fly Fishing Guide
EWA Staff Trainer

I began my fishing love affair bumming around the San Juan islands in the waters off Washington state. My parents began hauling me north from Seattle every weekend and every summer to race on their sailboat at the age of 2 months. My fishing career started rather unglamorously by probing the depths of the saltwater for anything that would bite a tube worm or chunk of herring. Mom and Dad knew I had a fishing sickness when at nine years old, I landed (sort of) an eighty pound Pacific Skate that rocked the sailboat so much while I was fighting it, my mother ordered me to cut the line (of course I didn’t). Since then I have graduated from dock rat to fly fisherman and have been addicted ever since.

Fueled with an inherent desire to spend time in the outdoors, a best friend came to me one day (a few years after "the skate incident") and enlightened me to the art of fly fishing. My first day fishing with a fly only added exponentially to my love of fishing and since then my resolve to learn all that I can about the sport has never diminished. These days I can be found fishing northwest waters for summer and winter run steelhead, salmon, trout and sea-run cutthroat in both fresh and saltwater. I will always have a special place in my heart for Puget Sound fly fishing and believe that hooking an adult salmon off of a beach with a fly rod is a kin to any angling experience, anywhere.

Along with sailing, skiing, hiking, and fishing, music became an incredible influence on my life and it took me to Boston where I studied for four years. My significant other’s father jokingly asks me if I am a fly fishing musician or a musician that fly fishes. To this I have no answer, but the parallels I can draw between music and fly fishing continually amaze me, and I find an outlet for pure creativity in both realms.

My philosophy about fly fishing is simple. Respect the environment, take only what you need, spend time in the outdoors with friends and loved ones, let the sport take you around the world, and never under any circumstances take for granted that one of nature's prized attributes actually bit your fly.

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