Steelhead Recovery & Fly Fishing with Mark Martin

Recorded while floating down the Selway River in the heart
of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, we invite you to join us for
an interview with Mark Martin. Mark is a
river and fishing guide in Idaho who serves as a salmon and
steelhead advocate for the Idaho Outfitters and Guides
Association. Mark is also a writer, conservationist and
backcountry skier. Mark is also a fly tier
extraordinaire who is known as the "Idaho Guide Bob Ross".


Mark was born and raised in northern Maine: a place and
culture where “going for a walk in the woods” is still a
legitimate way to fill an empty afternoon. He spent most of his
free time fishing, hunting, canoeing, and skiing, and his dad
taught him to flyfish and tie flies when he was eleven. Several
years of education and work in fisheries conservation led him to
a realization that no wild river’s heart and soul could ever be
characterized by a series of equations….and right about then he
discovered central Idaho and the Middle Fork. It was, as they
say, love at first sight. Since then, his natural habitat has
become the rower’s seat of a fishing boat.Mark ties all his
own flies for fishing, sells a few, and brings a selection of
favorites to the Middle Fork for each trip. When not guiding, he
finds work as a server at an off-the-grid backcountry ski-in
restaurant in the winter in McCall. Somewhere in there he
finds the time to fly fish obsessively for steelhead all over the
Northwest, and explore Idaho’s mountains on his skis…all while
daydreaming about last Middle Fork season, and the next. He
is also a favorite amongst our guests and is an incredible
fishing guide and has the patience of a sage.


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