Our Guides

Our guides are hand picked to provide a fishing experience that TroutAholics is known for. They have years of experience in hunting and stalking trout to find out what they are eating and then fooling them with a fly and BANG you have a fish on your line.

We provide our anglers with a unique experience, pointing out the wildlife, like a bald eagle’s nest around a bend in the river, maybe a fawn just days old……yes – fly fishing is the most important part of the trip but sometimes it is nice to just reel in your line and sit back to enjoy your surroundings.

Hi! I’m Joel Thompson, self professed TroutAholic!!

and the Master Guide at Montana TroutAholic Outfitters. After fishing all my life, fly fishing for 15 years, I was given an opportunity to start guiding full time in 2006, so quit my “day job”, grabbed the opportunity and never looked back!.

I love the outdoors with all the wildlife, vistas, ever changing rivers and untamed territory. My days are filled with the thrill of hunting, stalking, figuring out what the fish are eating that day and WHAM, catching the fish.

Our motto at Montana TroutAholic Outfitters is “FEEDING your Addiction” and we encourage everyone to join us.

Let us know if you have any questions or need special services….we would be glad to assist!

Troutaholic Guide, Bryan McCravy

Captain Bryan McCravy is from North Georgia, he grew up and lived on the water with a rod in his hand. Bryan spent his summers in eastern Tennessee taking folks on the Appalachian Trail and fly fishing the small Appalachian streams for brookies. Bryan also worked in Alaska, has spent time fishing Poland, gulf coast and many states in between. Captain Bryan McCravy is in his 11th season guiding in Missoula Montana.

Troutaholic Guide, Mitch King

Fishing is my passion.  I moved to Montana from north Texas in 2003 for school and adventure.  Montana has become my home and fly fishing has become my life.  I can’t imagine doing anything else.  I started fishing when I was young as most of us do, but once I held a fly rod for the first time it was on.   So for the last 9 years I have been rowing and wading the Blackfoot, the Clark and the Bitterroot  rivers in pursuit of that elusive trout with friends both old and new.

Montana Troutaholic Guide, Brock Long

Brock Long – Growing up in the mid-west, Brock spent a lot of time chasing Small and Large Mouth Bass in his youth.  He picked up a fly rod in college and ran down to the White River in Arkansas every chance he had. He was hooked and decided that guiding, or sharing his passion, out west was what he was meant to do.

Early on Brock determined that Craig, MT could be the best little fishing town in the lower 48.  Brock has been fly fishing his way to the trout bum capitol of the World for 10 plus years and now finds it hard to leave. He splits time between shop work at CrossCurrents Fly Shop and Guiding on the Missouri River.  If he is not working you will find him chasing heads on the MO.  Brock believes that the trout and dry fly fishing on the Missouri River is pretty significant.  He enjoys sharing this incredible fishery with as many people as possible. Check out his blog at http://www.montanadrifter.com

  Montana Troutaholic Guide Steve Ehredt   Being a fly fishing guide is a continuance of my life long endeavor to help others enjoy the outdoors.  It’s what I have always done.  Thanks to an older brother who took the time, I grew up fishing the rivers and streams of central PA, casting my first fly in 1981.  An internship at the Keystone Science School brought me and my fly rods to Colorado in 1987 and launched me into a 25 year career of getting kids outdoors.  From the top of Colorado’s 14,000’ peaks to the bottom of the Arkansas River Royal Gorge, I got to see the difference the outdoors can make in hundreds of kid’s lives.  During that time I became close friends with the entrepreneur and boat builder who created Boulder Boat Works (BBW).  Eventually, I became an integral part of BBW and saw their drift boats become highly respected in the fly fishing world.  My connection to BBW has taken me fishing on many of the west’s great rivers with some of the best people in the industry.  I have always felt that most people undervalue recreation in their lives. That’s why I hold a bachelor’s degree in Recreation from Penn State and a master’s in English Literature.   My entire life has been based on introducing people to the outdoors.