Savage River Outfitters

Savage River Outfitters guides from a base on Savage River Road in Swanton, Maryland, and treats the Savage as home water rather than one stop on a longer circuit. Guided days are offered as wade trips and as guided raft float trips, in half day and full day lengths, with half day wade trips starting at 375 dollars for one or two anglers. Fly fishing instruction and lessons run through the whole year, and equipment can be supplied on request for anglers who travel light. The outfit names Brad, Ryan and Charlie as its guides and publishes a direct number for each of them alongside the main line, so a trip can be arranged with a particular guide. Days also run on the Potomac and on smaller streams around the county, but the fishing the business is built around is the wild trout the Savage holds, in a stretch of western Maryland where the river runs through deep forest and steep ground.