Our select group of professional guides are on staff with years of experience to make your day on the water as productive as possible.
Kevin Corser
Kevin Corser has been guiding for several years now for West Branch Angler and is a true student of the sport. Kevin grew up in the Rochester, NY area and is currently attending SUNY Brockport working on his master's degree in freshwater ecology. With Kevin's expert knowledge of entomology along with his skills as a fly tier you will be in good hands when the evening hatch rolls around. When Kevin isn't guiding clients he is usually out on the river testing his own skills against the Delaware's finest.
Joel Dodd
Adam Franceschini
Adam grew up in the Berkshire Mountains of northwest Connecticut where he learned how to fish at an early age. Instilling in him a passion for fishing, water and the outdoors. Adam began guiding on the famed rivers of western Montana, where he quickly learned how to navigate a drift boat on big water. Since then, he has guided on the San Juan river in New Mexico, South Holston and Watauga rivers in TN, The Steelhead Ally of Lake Erie in Ohio, Amazon River Basin of Brazil, Salmon River and Housatonic River in Connecticut.
Along with being a commercial fly designer and an Ambassador to the American Museum of Fly Fishing, he is a popular guest speaker and a Sage Ambassador. Adam is a year-round International guide working on the water eleven mouths of the year. He spends his spring guiding for the West Branch Angler in Hancock, NY, during the winter Adam is the head guide for Coyhaique River Lodge in Chile and the summer he is head guide for Tikchik Narrows Lodge in Bristol Bay, AK.
NYS Guide License #6936
Matthew Ippoliti
Matt began guiding just out of college and made the transition from Boulder to Basalt in 2000, when he started working for the Taylor Creek Fly Shop. Industry legend Tim Heng, and his cast of senior guides created the type of learning environment where ability alone was not enough. Stewardship, grace, and professionalism were requirements to ensure the impeccable reputation that the shop was built on. These values are evident when fishing with Matt, as well as is his desire to build a guide service the same way in the East. Having lived the guide life for over eighteen years, and operating out of his mobile fish camp in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Tennessee, he has no shortage of expertise or local knowledge. In his spare time, Matt builds non-toxic steel anchors for drift boats and rafts, goes mountain biking, and runs fishes for fun.
Dustin Mason
Practically raised with a rod in hand, Dustin has been fly-fishing for the better part of his life. He grew up fishing the Pennsylvania tributaries to Lake Erie for Fall and Spring run Steelhead, where he has also been guiding for the past several years. While pursuing a degree with a focus in Outdoor Leadership from the Parks & Resource Management program at Slippery Rock University, he was first introduced to the Upper Delaware River System in 2006, working for another fly-fishing outfitter in the area. Returning every Spring, he has logged over 150 days a year on the water each season, both as a fisherman and guide, sharing his experiences and passion for the sport with his fellow fly-fishermen. Technically self-taught, he gives all credit to careful observation and a passionate determination to learn and understand the many different rhythms of the natural environment in which our targeted species thrive.
NYS Guide License #5281
Jared Mink
Kevan Smaracko
As a youth, Kevan grew up in Tannersville, PA where his father introduced him to the Bushkill, Broadhead and other nearby freestone streams in the Poconos. In his teens Kevan attended a conservation camp sponsored by the local Trout Unlimited Chapter. This experience influenced Kevan to pursue a curriculum at Slippery Rock universitythat would combine business, stream management and ecology whichprepared him to be on the river as a professional guide. Not long after his graduation from college in 2007, Kevan found himself a guide position on the Upper Delaware River where he has worked for the last nine years. Montana was Kevan’s first venture west during the summer and fall. He further developed his skills in the Missoula area where he took his clients on the Bitterroot, Clark Fork, Blackfoot, and Rock Creek . Three years later he was off again from June to October working in Alaska for the Newhalen Lodge where led trips via jet boat and float plane to lakes and rivers nearby.
Presently Kevan lives with his wife Tanya, an avid fly fisherwoman, and his two dogs. Kevan and his family live outside of Callicoon, NY on the main Stem of the Delaware. When he is not floating the river, you can find him in a deer stand or behind his English setter hunting upland game.
Aaron Borow
Born and raised in Northcentral Pennsylvania with a fly rod in hand, being surrounded by great trout streams led Aaron to become a true trout bum. Having spent years bouncing around the country fishing everything in sight, he wound up living on the banks of the famed Big Blackfoot River in Montana. After many years of fishing and rowing the big western rivers, he returned to Pennsylvania to manage a fly shop. While here he began to guide and teach casting, fly tying, rod building and on/off stream instruction. Now living and working in central Pennsylvania’s limestone country, a fly fisherman’s paradise, Aaron is happy to share a lifetime of knowledge and experience with his clients while guiding for West Branch Anglers.
Matt Alley
