The guides
Captain Brian Jill
WWW.LOSTCOASTANGLERS.COM
Skiff – Hells Bay Marquesa
Captain Brian Jill is a Tampa Bay native with over 15 years of guiding experience in the area. Growing up on Florida’s Gulf Coast gave him a deep connection to the waters and the fish that call them home. His fly fishing career has taken him to remote and wild destinations across the globe, including Central and South America, Iceland, Greenland, New Zealand, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific, Australia, and beyond.
As a co-founder of the Angling Exploration Group (AEGmedia), Brian helped pioneer a new adventure-driven style of fly fishing films. His most recent television project was filming for and staring in an Animal Planet series titled, FISH OR DIE. When he’s not guiding, you’ll find Brian focused on his fishing lodge in Mexico, PERLA NEGRA, or out exploring new waters.
Captain Nick Angelo
WWW.SHALLOWWATERFLYFISHING.COM
Skiff – Hells Bay Professional
Captain Nick Angelo is a fly and light tackle fishing guide working the Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. Born in South Florida, he began fly fishing at a very young age. After some convincing his father bought him his first fly rod. Fishing is not just his career, but it’s his life, his love, his passion. He has over 20 years of fly fishing experience along Florida’s coast.
His professional fishing career started after working at Bass Pro Shops while going to college. He later on left a promising career as a chef to pursue his true love of fishing. He has since “work fished” from the Florida Keys to Alaska. Captain Nick has won several fly casting competitions and tournaments and has been featured in several fishing publications. His favorite days on the water are spent poling his anglers to giant laid up tarpon.
Captain Greg Peterson
WWW.HEADSHOTCHARTERS.COM
Skiff – Chittum Mangrove 18
Capt. Greg Peterson is a full time fly fishing guide working in the Tampa Bay area. He grew up in Michigan chasing salmon, steelhead, and trout as a kid and that is where he developed a love for the outdoors, especially fly fishing. Greg began a career teaching at the middle school level after graduating college in Chattanooga, TN. After being a PE and Science teacher for 5 years he decided to do what he loved and make fishing a career. He has fly fished the Tampa area extensively for the last 14 years, and learned from some of the best anglers and guides in the area.
Greg is an accomplished angler, fly caster, and tier and will work his hardest to insure his anglers have a fun and successful time on the water. With his teaching background he can provide hands on expert instruction for the novice angler and also challenge the experienced angler to the best of their ability.
Captain Bryon Chamberlin
WWW.BARBEDSTEEL.COM
Skiff – Hells Bay Professional
Capt. Bryon Chamberlin has been fishing the waters around the Tampa Bay area for over 20 years. Of those, he has been dedicated exclusively to fly fishing for the last 17 years. He prides himself on hard work for his clients, and he will pole that extra mile to get his angler one more shot.
He has been featured in several fly fishing magazines through the years, and has also been seen on a few television shows. As a tournament fly angler, he has pretty much won or placed in every fly fishing tournament held in the Tampa Bay area. In team competition, he along with his good friend Capt. Nick Angelo have won the Salty Fly Tournament in 2012, which is Florida’s largest fly fishing tournament. He has also had great success in fly casting competitions at the regional level. He has won 1st place team two times, but is most proud of winning the individual distance cast twice. Once with his personal best cast of 129.5ft with an 8wt.