About Us
Western Anglers Fly Shop is the only full-service fly shop in the Grand Valley. We’re your local stop with not only a good attitude, but give you the most current information on fishing reports, spots and what to use. We carry only the best brands, giving you the most quality gear available on the market, including: Scott Fly Rods, Sage Fishing Products, Ross Reels, Fishpond, Simms and many more. We price match and special order everyday to offer anglers the best shopping experience on the Western Slope. We also offer hosted travel opportunities and have access to public & private trophy waters for guided fishing.
We hope you’ll come in as customer and leave as a friend, and maybe we’ll even get to fish together if we’re not working too hard! Please let us know if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing you in the shop. Thank you for giving us your business!
Come visit us at 413 Main Street in downtown Grand Junction, Colorado.
Staff
Owner, Ned Mayers
Ned moved to Colorado when he was 4 years old. He grew up on the Front Range, continued his education at Fort Lewis College and after graduation, stayed in Durango until 1995. Durango led Ned to his passion for the outdoors: skiing, fishing, mountain biking and everything else in between. It also led him to his wife, Colette! Ned began working with a commercial roofing company and later opened and managed a new office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After spending a couple of years in New Mexico, he had the opportunity to relocate and manage the Grand Junction office just as Colette began working at Whiting Farms, a major manufacturer in the fly fishing industry. In 2015, Ned was ready for a change after 26 years in the construction industry, and had the opportunity to purchase Western Anglers. He’s passionate about people and fly fishing. The perfect combination as Western Anglers Fly Shop owner! After 13 years working full-time at Whiting Farms, Colette now works a bit closer to home for P & L Properties and she also is very hands on with Western Anglers as she does all the accounting and keeps the shop running behind the scenes.
Shop Manager, Daniella Rogers
Daniella’s passion and obsession for fly fishing started back in 2015, when her fascination for the outdoors started while chasing wild game with her bow on public lands of Pennsylvania. Later that same year, Daniella was also introduced to fly fishing and she immediately became completely addicted to the challenge, the amount of discipline that was needed to be any good, and to how similar it was to stealthily hunting for big game. Naturally, after a couple of years of archery hunting Whitetail and chasing native and wild trout in tiny mountain streams on the fly in the North East, Daniella finally made her way out west for her very first time! From that moment on, every year since then, she spent a month or two out west chasing her dreams in the fall and taking it all in out west, before having to inevitably return back to the East Coast. It has been one of her biggest dreams in life to move out west and live amongst the mountains and fauna that live in them!
Chasing screaming and bugling bull elk for a month straight, in and around the Rockies, while slowly adding more and more species of trout to her caught list, the addiction to the wildlife, and the wild places they live in absolutely took over her every thought and decision. Shortly there after, Daniella took a detour for work and moved her whole life down to Southwest Florida. Where the hunting was not as abundant, but the saltwater fly fishing was some of the best you can ever imagine! She spent the next two years spending countless hours learning the Everglades one mangrove tunnel after another out of a 13’ Gheenoe, chasing Tarpon, Snook, Redfish and everything in between. Chasing these saltwater game species easily became the highlight focus of every week, month or year that went by. Now after several years of building up to the out west move, Daniella is finally happy to say she’s officially a Colorado resident and couldn’t be happier to be living amongst mountains, chasing trout and elk and all of the other amazing, natural wonders that the west has to offer with salt water fly fishing just a short flight away!
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Stop by the shop to meet Daniella!
Guide, Tyler Morris
Tyler is a lifelong resident of the Grand Valley and a sixth generation Coloradan. He is an avid fly fisherman, husband, and dad. It didn’t take long for him to discover a love for the outdoors. He grew up exploring all that Western Colorado has to offer and found his true passion of fishing! From a young age you could find him at the local stocker ponds or camping on the Grand Mesa with his family. Not long after getting a drivers license he spent all his free time chasing wild Cutthroats and the Grand Mesa’s many other trout species. Being fortunate enough to grow up with the Grand Mesa as his play ground Tyler has built up a wealth of knowledge on the lakes of the area and honed his skills with a fly rod. Tyler has been guiding for the shop since 2017 and enjoys teaching the sport of fly fishing to new anglers. When Tyler is not guiding or at the shop you can almost bet he is staying current (as he likes to tell his wife) with what the lakes and fish are doing on the Grand Mesa. He’s known as the Stillwater specialist around the shop and is a great guide for your next adventure to the Grand Mesa or one of our private ranches.
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