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​Thank you for visiting Arizona Fly Fishing Adventures! This website is to book Professionally Guided Fly Fishing Trips in Arizona. We are the ones that helped put fly fishing for carp in Phoenix on the world stage! We have an entire crew to help you get your trip booked and hooked up!

I have personally been fly fishing in Arizona for over 24 years and have been guiding since 2014. I am the direct descendant of Wilford Woodruff, the first documented fly fisherman in the West. Fly Fishing is in my genetics. Many know me from fly fishing for carp on the canals but my fly fishing roots go back to 1847 when Wilford brought fly fishing to the West over from England. Since then it has been since passed down generations down to me and I have been passing that on to hundreds of people since starting my journey years ago.

I have been featured in many videos, written many articles and made it into magazines including FLY FISHERMAN MAGAZINE. Since then, fly fishing in Phoenix has exploded with more and more fly fishermen making Arizona an extremely fun destination spot. My personal goal it to teach people the fundamentals, improve them and most importantly give my passion and knowledge of all things fly fishing. 

Over time, I joined forces with other guides to become part of the Best Fly Fishing Guide Team in the State. I am licensed through AZGFD and work with Lo Water Guide Service. Lo Water Guide Service is permitted through Tonto National Forest. We are fully insured and permitted. We are you Best Arizona Fly Fishing option for an experienced guide. Other guide services have popped up, but we are the Originals. They've been guide for a year or two.... Us? We've been here for over a decade. Book your trip with the crew and meet the guys who have been doing the real work.....

Guided Fly Fishing in Phoenix, Arizona
Carp Fly fishing guide with client in Phoenix, Arizona
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Trout Fly fishing Arizona
Want to book your trip? Looking to land your first carp or abduct your first Gila Trout? Fill out the form below and we will get you on our calendar. We specialize in Carp, Trout and Bass. We are fully licensed, insured and  permitted through Tonto National Forest.

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Grass Carp Canal Fly Fishing in Gilbert Arizona
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Grass Carp on the Fly in Phoenix canal

Want to see what fly fishing for Carp in Phoenix is like? Here's a short video that will give you an idea. Phoenix has over 180 miles of canals... more than Amsterdam and Venice COMBINED! The canal system here was actually put in place over the top of the native people's previously existing irrigation canals that were already dug as far back as the 1400s.

Licensed - Permitted -  Insured - Endorsed -  Professional - Experienced. 
Tom Bie Carp Slam 2017

Tom Bie - The Drake Magazine

Celebrity Fly Fishing Guide Josh Gallivan catching carp in Phoenix, Arizona

Josh Gallivan - Fly Fishing Guide

Yellow Dog Fly Fishing Adventures

Fly Fishing Phoenix canals

Jeremy Elms - Fly Fishing Guide

Galvin Guiding

   My reputation as a guide and fly fisherman is backed up by years of experience and endorsements from other top professionals within the industry. These photos are just a few memories of me fishing and learning from a few of them. Up above is Tom Bie, editor of the Drake Magazine, fishing with him in the Famous Denver Trout Unlimited Carp Slam Fly Fishing Tournament in 2016. I know many of Denver's finest guides, Chris Galvin, Jeremy Elms, Rick Mikesell and others. I chased "carp on the fly" on the Los Angeles River with Andrew McClellan of Rhino Nets before it was cool. I have "guided many guides" like Josh Gallivan who wrote about his visit and you can read here. 
CARP SLAM XIV CHAMPIONS

    I have traveled around many of the Carp spots of the West and know how to fish them. The Denver South Platte is on my list of waters I have mastered. During the pandemic in October of 2020, I was able to to be apart of my first Carp Slam Victory which you can read about by clicking on the Carp Slam logo below.  Huge shout out to Chris Galvin for being the Tiger Woods of the Carp Slam. Best partner anyone could draw. You can find his guide website here www.galvinguiding.com. In 2025, I was invited back to compete as a PRO which I consider one of my biggest achievements.

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Carp Slam Fly Fishing Tournament
2020 Fly Fishing Carp Slam Champion

Pro-Teammate - 5-time Champion

Chris Galvin landed the biggest Carp in Carp Slam history at 35.5"

Common Carp on the fly

RECAP ->We landed 3 fish for 89". Mine was worth 28.5"... We were focused, had a good beat, good energy and hungry fish. The Denver Trout Unlimited Carp Slam is one of my favorite things to do every year! Check them out at www.carpslam.org

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