Dusty grew up in Missouri, started fly fishing at age eight, and spent his formative years highly distracted by the sport.  He began guiding and teaching fly-fishing in the early seventies while working on a degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of Wyoming.  Living in Jackson, WY after graduate school he tied commercially for High Country Flies and guided on the Snake, Green and New Fork Rivers and in Yellowstone National Park. 

After working as a Biologist in Wyoming and East Africa, Dusty started his fly-fishing school and guide service in 1995.  He also served as the lead instructor at the L.L. Bean Fly Fishing School in Virginia and still teaches at the Wulff School of Fly Fishing in New York.  He is a Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor and is a member of the Board of Governors of the F.F.F. Guides Association.   When he’s not teaching or guiding, Dusty gives casting demonstrations and workshops at sports shows from Montana to Virginia.  His articles and photographs can be found in several outdoor magazines.

Dusty is on the Pro Staff of the Scott Fly Rod Co., Ross Reels, & Hyde Drift Boats and is a fly designer for Brookside Flies of Denver, Colorado.