
Path to Conservation
Twenty years of river time turned a deckhand into a guide, a mother, and a steelhead advocate who won't stay quiet about what's at stake.
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.

Twenty years of river time turned a deckhand into a guide, a mother, and a steelhead advocate who won't stay quiet about what's at stake.

Years of strikeouts can turn into a lifetime friendship once you finally book that guide trip.

One look at a double-hand rod bending through a backlit cast, and she was hooked on swinging flies for steelhead.