After all, clients and guides are a team at the end of the day and Sam is able to draw from his many outdoor and professional accomplishments and experiences to ensure his clients have memorable experience. He also understands that a guide must be patient, focused, encouraging, knowledgeable, responsible, and an above all else, an effective communicator. It can be said that whether he is fishing, hunting, designing, or exercising, he is always looking to learn more, enjoy the process, and share with others what he has been taught. His mission is to bring people closer to nature and closer together something he uses both fly-fishing and architecture to accomplish two methods to a common goal. He first picked up a fly rod in college and fly-fishing quickly turned into another full fledged passion, among which he has many. Sam De Jonge is a Northern Michigan native Architectural Designer during the week and an arrant outdoorsman out of the office. Although Steelhead and large Brown Trout at night are exciting, the true treasure of northern Michigan lies in the vermiculation and blue halos of the native Brook Trout from its cold, clean and clear rivers. He has been tying flies since his father taught him at the age of nine. An advocate for catch and release, Koz is also regional sales representative for Temple Fork Outfitters, RAINY’s Flies, FISHEWEAR, GRAPLRZ, WINGO Outdoors, and WIND RIVER GEAR – he is also northern Michigan’s ambassador for SUPontheFly and Adipose Boatworks, as well as an FFF member. A lifetime member of Trout Unlimited and ex officio for the Miller-VanWinkle Chapter, he shares his passion for the resources by teaching locals the art of fly tying. A recent transplant to Boyne City now allows the Jordan and Boyne Rivers to become his backyard home waters. Over a decade ago, he and his wife, Lesley, daughters, Simone and Camille, made ‘Up North’ a permanent way of life. Originally from Grand Rapids where the Rogue River and Grand River were his home waters, his frequent trips to Grayling to fish the Holy Waters were not enough. Brian Kozminski, known as “Koz” by friends, has been fly fishing Michigan waters for over 30 years.
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