TroutSmith
Every river has a local. Find yours.
The booking home for people who know the water, built so guides keep every dollar they earn.
An early prototype · not open for bookings
The booking home for people who know the water, built so guides keep every dollar they earn.
An early prototype · not open for bookings
The person who knows the water should be the reason you book, and the one who keeps what they earn.
Search by river and date. You see the guide who works that water, not whoever bought the top ad slot.
The guided day is the reason you travel. Lodging, a vehicle and flights come with it, in one place.
Everyone pays their own share, or you spread it over the months before the season opens.
TroutSmith is an idea about booking fly fishing guides, and about who should keep the money when a trip gets booked. It is early. Nothing here takes a payment, and no guide is live yet.
What exists is a working prototype and a point of view. If you fish, or you guide, or you build things for a living, we would like to know what you make of it.
Two partnerships we are exploring so a guide can keep earning from the reputation they already have.
A print-on-demand partner, so a guide can put their own design on a cap or a shirt with no inventory and nothing paid upfront. We design it with them, they set the price, it ships when somebody buys one.
Every guide gets asked what rod to buy. A commission arrangement with equipment partners would pay the guide when a client buys on their recommendation. No sponsored placements, and nothing they would not have said anyway.
Both are in exploration. Neither is signed, and we will not pretend otherwise.
We would rather hear from forty guides now than launch something clever that nobody asked for. Independent guides set their own rates and keep their own clients. Outfitters can bring a whole team in one conversation.