Bio: Paul Weamer was taught to tie flies and fish by his father in the fertile limestone valleys of Central Pennsylvania. After college, Paul spent four years working as a counselor before accepting a job managing a fly fishing lodge and shop near the Delaware River. He left that position in April 2002 to become the managing partner of Border Water Outfitters in Hancock, NY. When he wasn’t running his fly shop, Paul also guided for trout on the Delaware and Beaverkill rivers, and steelhead in Cattaraugus, Elk, and Walnut creeks. Paul has been a production tier for numerous guides and fly shops in the Catskill Mountains, including the legendary Dette flyshop located in Roscoe, New York. His flies have been featured in the Pennsylvania Outdoors television series, the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, and Charles Meck’s landmark book “The Hatches Made Simple.” Paul is also a contracted fly designer for the Montana Fly Company and the inventor of the Weamer’s Truform, Comparachute, Alewife, and the Weamer Streamer series of flies. Paul was a founding board member of the Delaware River Foundation and the Friends of the Upper Delaware River, and is a current member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He belongs to the pro-staffs of Regal Engineering, Hobie Optics, and Daiichi hooks where he designed the Daiichi #1230, Weamer’s Truform Mayfly Hook. Paul has contributed articles to Fly Fisherman, the Mid Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide, and the Hancock Herald Newspaper. He has also been featured in many fly fishing books and magazines, and the New York Times. Paul’s first book, “Fly Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River,” was released in August 2007 (Stackpole Books). He has also collaborated with Jay Nichols on a dry fly tying book scheduled for release in 2008, and is currently working on two more book projects, one in collaboration with Charles Meck. In early 2007, after spending nearly a decade in the Upper Delaware watershed, Paul returned to Central Pennsylvania as the manager of TCO’s fly fishing operations in State College and Spruce Creek. Paul, his wife Ruthann, and their two dogs “Grizzly” Hackle and Brandy currently reside along Penns Creek in Coburn, Pennsylvania.

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