about Fishing on the Fly!

Sasha Woods has been fishing all her life. Growing up in Illinois, her family went to northern Wisconsin to fish at the Coleman Lake Club several times a summer. She caught her first fish on a fly rod at the age of nine, and has been hooked ever since. She tied flies through grade school, high school and college, her favorite being the pink wooly worm.

She attended Colorado College and graduated with a degree in Geology in 1986. She fished throughout college, sometimes on crutches. During this time, she got to know the good fishing areas around Colorado Springs, and learned about nymph fishing, which they just didn’t do in the Midwest.

After moving to Steamboat Springs in 1992, Sasha ran into a college buddy who had a fly shop at Steamboat Lake. He said he was looking for a woman to teach women how to fly fish, and was told to look no further. She bought into the Steamboat Lake Fishing Company in 1996.

Charlie Meyers from the Denver Post wrote an article about Sasha Woods in June of 1996, and in July of the same year, she was featured in a Positively Colorado news segment by a Denver news station.

Sasha (left) with sister Kathy

In 1997, the partners agreed to sell Steamboat Fishing Company and in 1998, Sasha and her family moved back to Colorado Springs.

Sasha truly loves teaching people to fly fish. She likes to save her clients a little time and a lot of frustration, giving her clients a lot of information and time to practice and ask questions. By drawing on her many years of experience, keeping the group small, and using a beautiful setting with lakes and streams, Sasha can best impart her knowledge and love of fly fishing to others.