About Spencer
Spencer Crider learned to fly fish at age 11 on the shores of the Conococheague and Conodoguinet Creeks in central Pennsylvania.
In 2002, Spencer visited Montana for the first time and fell in love.
During summers between college semesters, Spencer came out to visit his Cousin Adam in Big Sky and started working at a local fly shop. Rather than pursue the medical field, he decided to stick around for good after that final summer in 2011.
Spencer met his wife, Anna, in 2015, at the original Lone Peak Cinema. They welcomed their daughter, Joy, in 2022, and have a son on the way. When Spencer’s not guiding, he’s fishing, camping, snowboarding, or watching soccer and hockey while wrangling Joy.
About Adam
Adam Skaggs dedicated his life to catching large mouth bass in Florida by age 6. Like that, he was hooked. At 18, he moved to southwest Montana so he could flyfish in Yellowstone National Park, after a few years he moved to Big Sky and got a job guiding with East Slope Outdoors. He bought a boat (the same Green Machine you’ll still see him row); had a son, Noah; and married the love of his life, Angie. He now splits his time between guiding his beloved rivers in Montana and his salt-water mangroves in the Florida keys.
When Adam’s not guiding, he’s fishing or Phishing.
About John
John grew up fishing bass and trout in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania with his dad, brother and friends every chance he got. Thanks to a confluence of events at the end of high school, he picked up a fly rod and proceeded to become immersed in the spring creeks of PA and the big rivers of southwest MT. He's been guiding and living in Gallatin County since 1998 and is equally experienced with teaching a first timer and expanding the skills of an expert fly fisherman.
He just loves fishing, with a fly or otherwise.
About Frank
Frank grew up on an all-sports lake in Commerce Township, Michigan, where his father had him holding a fishing rod by the age of two. He learned to fly fish on the famed Trophy Waters of the Au Sable River and then discovered the Pere Marquette River—a place that quickly became one of his lifelong favorites so much so that he and friends purchased the Pere Marquette River Lodge.
For more than thirty years, Frank visited family in Montana and brought his kids out during summer breaks to experience the mountains, rivers, and wide-open spaces. Eventually, the pull of the West became too strong to ignore. In 2024, he made the move to Montana full-time and now guides here year-round, sharing his deep love of fly fishing and the outdoors with anglers from all over.
A true outdoorsman, Frank also enjoys archery and upland bird hunting with his German Shorthair "Grandpa".
