Harry Desmond, Fly Fishing Guide in MA

Harry Desmond, Owner & Head Guide

Harry Desmond, owner, head guide, and founder of Berkshire Rivers Fly Fishing™, grew up fishing and exploring in the Berkshires. Harry has extensive knowledge of Berkshire river geography as well as Berkshire history.

Experience & Education

Harry’s love of fly fishing and outdoor adventures led his travels to Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon, where he worked, played, and explored for more than a decade. In all, Harry has 25+ years of fly fishing experience, including 8 years in Yellowstone National Park.

Harry is a Sweetwater Fly Fishing Guide School graduate. He is also CPR and first aid certified. He is proficient in many techniques, including nymph fishing, dry fly fishing, and streamer fishing, and he will select the right style for any given day’s conditions to maximize your catch.

Passions & Values

Harry enjoys spending time fishing in New England as well as different areas of the country. He spends his winters researching new territories, tying flies, and steel heading. He also likes woodworking in the winter months.

Harry’s mission is to share his enthusiasm for the outdoors and fly fishing through his company, Berkshire Rivers Fly Fishing, by guiding tours for locals and travelers. Harry’s friendly attitude and passion for fly fishing make him the ideal guide for your Berkshire fishing adventure.

In addition to running guided fly fishing trips throughout the Berkshires, Harry is also a steward of fly fishing history, traditions, and conservation as an ambassador for the American Museum of Fly Fishing.

Rick King, Guide

Rick King Learned to fly fish at a young age in the trout filled streams of Central Pennsylvania, where he was born and raised. After spending his youth wandering the banks of PA’s limestone and spring creeks Rick moved to Colorado to attend college and then landed in High Central Rockies where the passion and drive for chasing trout with a fly rod took off. The years of fishing everyday after work and rowing a boat at every opportunity turned into full time guiding based out of the Vail Valley.

Rick and his family moved to the Berkshires to be nearer to his wife’s family. Rick is consumed by the fishing Berkshire County and the surrounding areas have to offer. Whether it’s casting large swim flies to toothy Northern Pike, poppers to Smallmouth bass, or laying a dainty dry fly in front of a weary trout.

Rick will work hard to teach you, and show why he and so many others are drawn to the water.

John Beauregard, Guide

John is a fellow Sweetwater Guide School graduate. Following 7 years of service in the Navy, he has switched gears to follow a different path, while staying on the water. He is currently pursuing a degree in environmental science and is passionate about conservation, especially in and around Berkshire County. Apart from his studies and guiding, John enjoys reading, backpacking, skiing and training harness horses.

John’s passion for fly angling is largely influenced by the Catskills in New York, where he grew up. His angling has led him to fish up and down the East Coast for anything that will take a fly. He grew very fond of chasing redfish and sea trout on the fly while living in Virginia. His trout obsession has led him as far away as Switzerland, seeking native brown trout in the Alps. However, he feels most at home in the freshwater of the Berkshires.

He is always looking to share his passion for the natural world and love of angling with others.

Enjoy a Float Trip

Take some fly fishing tips from guide and fisherman Harry Desmond.

GO FISHING!