Dusty Wissmath Bluemont, VA

Phone: 717-328-9400
Target Species: Trout
E-Mail: dwissmath@yahoo.com
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Dusty Wissmath is a widely respected fly casting instructor who learned to fish in the West and now teaches his art in the East. In 1997, he founded the Whitetail Fly Fishing School in the mountains near Mercersberg, PA. Dusty now teaches casting and fishing schools at shows and through fly shops across the whole Mid-Atlantic region.

Dusty grew up in Missouri, started fly fishing when he was eleven years old, and spent his school years highly distracted by the sport. He started guiding and teaching fly fishing in the early seventies while working on a degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of Wyoming. Living in Jackson after graduate school, he tied commercially for High Country Flies and guided the Snake River, Green River, New Fork River, and Yellowstone National Park.

Although his school at Whitetail is just four years old, it has quickly earned a reputation as a professional, yet easy-going fly fishing school. Dusty is one of the best, most personable instructors on the Scott Pro Staff. Schools are scheduled from late March through November. Dusty also guides a host of trout waters in the Mid-Atlantic region, including the spring creeks and limestone streams of the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys, as well as the freestone streams of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

Dusty is a driving force in beginners' fly casting instruction. He's always teaching; he loves to teach and is one of the best instructors we've ever met. You'll see him at fly fishing shows and at Scott dealer events all over the East.