Baldwin, MI
Thomas Lynch has been fishing the Pere Marquette and surrounding streams in the upper northwest of Michigan since he was only 8 years of age. Starting off with his father, not even filling the waders that were handed down, he became an avid steelhead fisherman by the ripe old age of twelve. By the time he was sixteen he was fly fishing for steelhead, salmon, and trout, and got his first drift boat when he was 17 years old. After keeping that boat for a couple of years, Tommy got his first Hyde boat and has been floating them ever since.
For over a decade he has caught several trophy fish, and covered vast amounts of river miles, all within the confines of his Hyde boat. What the boat allows a person to do in a short amount time is learn the water and the fish within it! Tom says that the learning curve that a fly fisherman with a drift boat has over one who doesn’t is drastic. Tom has an intimate hold on the rivers in the area, and on his Pere Marquette home water; he is second to none on getting people into fish. He guides year round and for all species that might favor a fly and can’t say enough about how happy he has been with his Hyde Boats. He guides for the Pere Marquette River Lodge out of Baldwin, MI.