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Adam P. Franceschini is a knowledgeable and customer focused professional with a solid understanding of reading the river, hatches, boat handling, casting techniques, and fly tying. Independently insured, with guide experience throughout the continental US and Alaska, as well as South America.

Adam grew up in the Berkshire Mountains of northwest Connecticut where he learned how to fish at an early age, thus instilling in him a passion for fishing, water, and the outdoors. Adam began guiding on the famed rivers of western Montana, where he quickly learned how to navigate a drift boat on big water. Since then, he has guided on the San Juan river in New Mexico, the South Holston and Watauga rivers in TN, the Steelhead Ally of Lake Erie in Ohio, Amazon River Basin of Brazil, Salmon River and Housatonic River in Connecticut.
Along with being a commercial fly designer, contributing author, Reality TV Star and an Ambassador to the American Museum of Fly Fishing, he is a popular guest speaker and a Sage Elite Pro Team member. Adam is a year-round international guide working on the water eleven months of the year. He spends his spring guiding for the West Branch Angler in Hancock, NY, the winter guiding for Coyhaique River Lodge in Chile and the summer guiding for Tikchik Narrows Lodge in Bristol Bay, AK.