Battenkill Fly Fishing

Battenkill Fly Fishing is the one-guide operation of Scott Sztorc, based at Shushan, New York, and reachable by telephone, by email or through the form on his own site, which undertakes to answer within forty-eight to seventy-two hours. The rivers he fishes are the Battenkill, the Hoosic, the Mettawee and the Walloomsac, and because that water straddles the state line he tells clients they will need a licence in Vermont as well as New York. Sztorc is a former chef, and every meal on a trip is cooked and served on the bank rather than carried out ready-made; he asks beforehand about allergies and about anything a client would rather not eat, and no alcohol is served while a trip is running. He also asks that mobile phones stay off the river unless they are genuinely needed, and provides water and drinks himself. A client of five years’ standing is quoted on the site calling him the best all-round guide he has fished with, and crediting him with keeping anglers both safe and in productive water.