Meet Your Guide: Joseph Beare

Joseph Beare is a professional fly fishing guide and member of our shop staff. For the past seven years, he has been a weekly contributor to the NWFFO newsletter — his "Reports from the Road" and "Trout Outlook" sections are regular reads for our most trout-crazed customers. Of all our team, Joseph chases fish with a passion that spans multiple water types and seasons, and his reports reflect that depth. Whether it's a spring creek nymph rig or a tidal estuary at first light, Joseph brings the kind of insight that only comes from serious time on the water.

What Joseph Guides

A pure trout guide, Joseph focuses on local waters that tend to get less attention and press than some of our more famous trout streams. In the winter, Joseph heads up our "Get What You Get" offseason trout program, intended to get local anglers on new, unexplored water that they can fish year-round. In the spring and summer, his focus shifts to still water and alpine destinations — particularly the many phenomenal fly fishing lakes and streams of the Mount Hood National Forest. Late summer and fall bring the sea-run cutthroat season, including a unique estuary program timed to the tides.

Joseph loves getting clients on interesting fish in under-explored places, and loves nothing more than to watch someone fight a trophy-sized trout less than an hour from their own front door. He is also one of our primary still water enthusiasts on staff, and provides dedicated, one-on-one half-day lessons for anglers who want to tune up their lake skills. Joseph has never met a fly fishing technique or style he doesn't enjoy. If it catches fish, he adds it to the arsenal — which makes Joseph a great guide to hire if you want to learn something new.

Joseph's Programs

Nov 1 – Apr 22	"Get What You Get" Offseason Trout Under-explored local trout water for year-round anglers
Apr – Nov	Fly'East (Mount Hood) Lakes Still water and alpine lake destinations in the Mt. Hood National Forest
May 22 – Oct 31	Fly'East Small Streams Small stream trout fishing in the Mt. Hood National Forest
Aug – Sep	Sea Run Cutthroat (Estuary) Unique tidal estuary program timed with the tides
Sep – Oct	Sea Run Cutthroat (Freshwater) Freshwater sea run cutthroat as fish push upriver in fall
Mar 20 – Oct 31	Lake Lessons (half day only) One-on-one still water instruction for anglers tuning up their lake skills

Rivers, Lakes & Species

• Crooked River: Rainbow Trout
• Lower Deschutes: Rainbow Trout
• Lower North Santiam: Rainbow & Cutthroat Trout
• Lower Clackamas: Rainbow Trout

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