Montana TroutAholic guide Ron Snow says

“I can’t remember a time I wasn’t fishing. My earliest memories are of fishing with family.” His love of fishing was handed down to him from his father and grandfather, both of which were lifelong fishermen.

Born in New Mexico, Ron learned how to fish on the waters of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Texas and his favorite type of fly fishing is casting dry flies to rising fish. He says “I know the biggest fish and more fish are caught on sub-surface presentations. It’s proven science. Most of a fish’s diet is made up of stuff in the water, not on the water. Most of, meaning like 85% or so. Stuff like nymphs and streamers. I’ll fish them when nothing is rising and I catch more fish sub-surface than on top, but man, I’d rather catch one respectable fish when it explodes on a dry drifting down through a run than 10 on streamers. There’s just this visceral adrenalin rush that charges through me when I get to watch fish eat a surface bug."

Ron’s favorite thing about guiding is introducing people to fly fishing. Meeting up with someone on the river that has never held a fly rod and teaching them some basic casting. Then stepping into the river and coaching them through the drift, hook set, playing and landing their first fish on the fly. He always tops off the adventure by snapping plenty of pictures full of smiles and a good release of the fish. We thank Ron for many of the pictures we use on MontanaTroutAholics.com

To fill in his spare time, Ron is a free lance outdoors writer, Nashville songwriter, husband, father and grandfather.