With the Colorado Rockies as a backdrop, Steve learned from his father the art of fly casting and fly tying at an early age. Since then, he’s embraced and expanded this passion, spending thousands of hours on the water pursuing trout throughout the Rockies, steelhead and salmon of Michigan and Idaho, the grand slam in Belize, and the aquarium of gamefish found along Baja´s coast. 

Steve has been enjoying the spoils and challenges of fly fishing southern Baja for the past nine years. He´s also an innovator of fly patterns and a custom rod builder. He currently guides in Montana in the summers, and Baja in the fall and spring. 

While Steve is the fly fishing expert of the couple, JoAnn´s talents contribute to the organization and logistics of Bay Anglers. She spent  many years  as the Operations Director for a non-profit conservation organization in eastern Idaho that works to conserve the great fisheries of the Henry´s Fork and South Fork of the Snake River watersheds, including important farm and ranchlands, wetlands, and wildlife habitat. She´s also worked as a writer, editor, botanist, and Baja restaurant owner.

Although she grew up in Wyoming, the ocean has held an important role in her life, inspiring her interest in marine ecology, SCUBA-diving and many of her art subjects.

JoAnn is also a fly fishing enthusiast, and it´s fast becoming one of her passions.

“It´s a perfect way to spend time on some of my favorite waters, whether it´s the Sea of Cortez or the Madison River of Montana,” she says. “Fly fishing´s strongest appeal to me is that it combines moments of intimate solitude with blasts of adrenaline and camaraderie.”