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Guides: Tom Loe

Tom Loe

CA F&G License 2808

Owner-Sierra Drifters Guide Service

Inyo National Forest Service Permits

Tom Loe grew up in Thousand Oaks, CA and married his high school sweetheart Michele.  Michele is  well known as the "CEO" of Sierra Drifters.  Without her expertise Sierra Drifters would not exist.  She is the most essential part of Tom's fishing career and they have worked as a team in the fishing industry for thirty years.

Tom spent twenty years offshore harpooning broadbill swordfish and set lining rockfish as the owner/operator of offshore commercial fishing vessels on both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.  He is a licensed Coast Guard captain and year round fly-fishing guide residing full time with Michele on McGee Creek overlooking Crowley Lake in the Eastern Sierra. Tom has had a maniacal fascination with trout his entire life.  He began tying flies at 12 years to assist him in financial support of his addiction to fishing.  Tom has created the Sierras most popular and imitated fly patterns and has been inducted into the Fly Tiers Museum.  Tom has been professionally guiding for over a decade and has logged over 3,000  guide trips to date.  He has hand picked and trained the regions top guides.

Tom has developed unique methods of fly-fishing for trout in the area and pioneered guided drift boat trips down the Lower Owens River.  He perfected the “dip and strip technique” in 1998 after selling the swordfish boat “Bandido” that same year.  Sierra Drifters Guide Service was founded and has been in operation since 1997 and to date has assisted well over ten thousand fly-fishers in pursuit of trout in the Eastern Sierra. 

Tom averages 250 days a year guiding blue ribbon trout fisheries with the  Owens Rivers, Crowley Lake, Bridgeport Reservoir, East Walker River, Lake Almanor, and Eagle Lake being his specialties.  He has re-invented still water nymphing and streamer techniques from his state of the art 24 foot flats boat and 18 foot Willie drift boat. His marine background has aligned him well in the guide business and he has revolutionized fly fishing in the Sierra.   His unique methods of putting clients on fish have even been banned on a popular lake due to their effectiveness! 

Tom has been written up in countless newspapers and periodicals including the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, San Diego Union, Western Outdoor News, and South West Fly Fishing. In 2004 he was named one of the top 30 anglers in the west by Western Outdoor News publications.  He has developed numerous published fly patterns that are currently cataloged by Pacific Fly Group and are sold commercially.  T. Loe has done countless seminars and clinics to fly fishing clubs and groups and has been depicted as being the "guides guide" in this region.

Newspaper Articles and Press...

Scott and Robin Okamoto Cover Fish/Western Outdoor News

One Fine Trip from Western Outdoor News

Catch his drift from the LA Times

Into the backing  from the Conejo Valley Fly Fisher

Catching His Drift Fishing: Tom Loe takes a new approach to the old, hard-to-access Owens River. By Dave Strege The Orange County Register

The Taming of Troutzilla  from The Conejo Valley Fly Fisher

 

 

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