Mia Sheppard

lives in Maupin, Oregon and is owner of Little Creek Outfitters with her husband, Marty Sheppard. She is a full-time mom, three time world champion spey caster who loves to guide people into a steelhead and teach spey casting. She also works as the Oregon Field Representative for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

3 posts

Path to Conservation

20 years ago if someone would have told me I was going to run a fly fishing business one day and steelhead would be my biggest passion, and I was going to be a mother, I would have called bullshit. 20 years ago, I had no idea what I wanted to do or who I was, and spent a lot of time at a bar stool, raising hell. I’ve now fostered that energy into a more productive path. My story starts in Tennessee, where I was born. My parents where ex-hippies. My father worked odd jobs and spent evenings p

6/15/2017Mia Sheppard

Guided

Fisherman aren’t created equal and some are born to be on the water daily. Most guides I know didn’t choose the path of guiding, but hours, days and months on the water turned the obsession into a career of sharing the experience with others. My experience is that a person decides to go with a guide after numerous strike-outs. When they are filled with doubt and frustration… then they decide to seek a professional to show them the secrets. Others simply lack the time it takes to become intimate

12/1/2016Mia Sheppard

Spey Casting is Sexy

Growing up as a kid, I have fond memories of catching fish using a twig pole, a piece of monofilament line and a worm. Playing on the shoreline and watching the wiggle of a fish, got me excited and kept me going back to rivers as a kid. Years later, I was living in Alaska and one day at a garage sale in Anchorage I found a Shakespeare single-hand fly rod with a Fenwick reel for $50.00. What a steal! There was a lot to learn about a fly-rod; the difference in lines, how to cast, how to tie on

6/1/2016Mia Sheppard

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Path to Conservation

Guided

Spey Casting is Sexy