AboutPosted by admin on July 22nd, 2009

What is No Sports Allowed?

Royce Klingler

Royce Klingler has been a professional fly fishing guide for 15 years at Three Rivers Ranch in Warm River, Idaho. He is an accomplished fly tier and caster/instructor. At 8 years old he started Fly Fishing with his Father and Grandfather on Henry’s Lake. The film shows the next generation (Royce’s three boys) fly fishing at Henry’s Lake.

Out of his experience have come the X-Series Skiffs, and a line of custom hand turned wood oars (Premier Oars and Blades). Over the years he has developed a keen ability to read water and has casting mending and catching skills second to none. When it comes to fly fishing his attitude is simply “get er done”.

His unique drive and follow through always brings his projects to completion. Over the years Royce and been involved with several stream restoration projects in Idaho, and has consulted with The Idaho Fish and Game to enhance and preserve several spring creeks in Eastern Idaho. He also owns and operates Premier Fly Shop, and the Ashton car was and Storage Units.

Although Royce prides himself on being a low key country boy, and prefers his backyard over any destination, he has traveled to many places chasing and landing permit, tarpon, snook, red fish, bonefish, sail fish, rooster fish, jacks, bonita and many other exotic species on a fly.

As you will see in the video Royce always puts his “money where his mouth is!’

Marc “Rowdy” Crapo

Marc Crapo spent his younger years fishing the creeks and rivers of the Great Northwest. As providence would have it he has gravitated back to the fly fishing paradise of the Upper Snake River Valley where his forefathers homesteaded in the 1800s.

With 17 years of photography/videography experience he has a considerable knowledge of and network in the fly fishing film industry. An 11 year Sales/Marketing veteran of the dot com/tech industry he has worked for such companies as: VServers, ICN, Verify Online and Microsoft. His thirst for knowledge and experience has taken him loggin in Montana and to the oil/gas fields of Wyoming Badlands.

He is a passionate artisan and has a small leather working operation producing Custom Leather Fly Wallets.

Aside from being and accomplished Fly Fisherman Marc is also a musician. His original song: IDAHO is featured No Sports Allowed Vol. 1

Aaron “Chubbs” Peterson

Aaron Peterson is one of the shareholders and founders of Prosper inc. he currently works as the Executive Vice President of Sales, responsible for overseeing all sales at Prosper’s satellite locations in Draper, Utah and Rexburg, Idaho. During his tenure overseeing Prosper’s Sales he has taken annual revenues from $1.5 million to over $60 million. He is also a member of Prosper’s board of directors. Recently Aaron was recognized by Utah Business Magazine as one of the top 40 business executives under 40 years old in the state of Utah.

Aaron has also co-founded Education Success Inc., and two real estate development holding companies, Osagia LLC and Palisades Properties LLC. He is the president of the perpetual Adoption Fund and sits on the board of directors for A Child’s Hope Foundation.

Aaron received an associate’s degree in pre-med from Ricks College and a Bachelors Degree in International Business with minors in Economics and Spanish form Albertson College of Idaho.

Aaron has always had a love for the outdoors, especially fly fishing. He took up fly fishng at age 14 and has fueled that passion ever since. His favorite place to fish is Southeast Idaho, but also loves casting for Tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico.

He founded and started a fly fishing blog called Fly Fishing Frenzy and is a weekly contributor to that blog. He has been instrumental in marketing that site to now over 2500 followers and generating over 4000 visitors a month sinces it’s launch just 9 months ago.