Company Description

Meet Chuck Kashner

FISHING GUIDE, commercial fly tyer, and committed "fishaholic", for Chuck fishing is a way of life.
Second generations fly tyer
he has tied flies commercially for over 20 years. In 1982, Chuck started his guiding career in Iliamna, Alaska
as an assistant river guide with "Wild Country River Guides". After which he continued guiding in Vermont part-time. From 1993 to 2004, Chuck guided fulltime as an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide in the Battenkill region.
Today, he operates as an outfitting guide service catering to fly, spin, and icefishing anglers. He has fished in: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and most of New England. On a average year, Chuck is
on the water about 200 days guiding or fishing himself. As a life long resident of Vermont,currently he resides near the Mettowee in Poultney, Vermont.
Other interests:cooking,upland hunting with pointing dogs, calling turkeys, chasing deer, ice fishing and gardening.

Chuck has appeared in the following publications:

Sports Afield, May 1983, "Alaska Float" by Jerome Robinson

Vermont Outdoors, April 1998, "Early season fly fishing tactics" by Bill Cairns

Vermont Outdoors, June 1999, "Fly box selection- Kashner Zug Bug" by Dan Noyes

Vermont Outdoors, May 2000, "Fly box selection- Invaria Compradun" by Dan Noyes

Guide Flies, 2003, by David Klausmeyer

Go To Flies, by Tony Lolli

Vermont Magazine July/August 2012

Northeast Edition Eastern Fly Fishing Magazine Summer 2012

Fly Tyer Magazine Winter 2014

Tying Heritage Featherwing Streamers by Sharon Wright 2015