Will Turek, born and raised in NE Ohio, has been professionally employed in the Fly Fishing industry since 1995. He spent the last 9 years working for Fish First! fly shop based in the Bay Area in Northern California. While at Fish First! he gained considerable experience in fly fishing retail sales, designing and instructing fly fishing classes and on-stream clinics, and guiding walk/wade and drift boat trips on such notable CA rivers as the Yuba, Feather, Lower and Upper Sacramento, and Pit. In 1999 he moved from the Bay Area to Chico, CA to open and manage a second Fish First! Store and develop Fish First!'s guide operation for Northern California. Will has chased trout, steelhead, salmon, large and smallmouth bass, and striped bass throughout CA, OR, ID, UT, CO, MT, OH, and MI.

Currently, Will is a flyfishing manufacturer sales rep working with Jerry Darkes of Angling Consulting Services based out of NE Ohio. He designs and instructs Scott Fly Rod on-stream and casting clinics for the Great Lakes region. He is particularly passionate about fishing for steelhead and teaching the benefits of fishing and casting using Spey techniques with single and two-handed rods. Jerry Darkes and Will Turek recently appeared in"Steelhead on Lake Erie Tributaries" episode of Joe Thomas' Reel in the Outdoors show aired on ESPN2.

Will Turek is an expert caster with 8 years experience teaching all levels of anglers the fundamentals of flycasting. He has 5 years experience teaching single and two-hand spey fishing and casting techniques. Will received his FFF Basic Casting Certification in 1998 and is currently working on his FFF Two Handed Casting Instructor certification. He first learned to spey cast at the Golden Gate casting ponds in San Francisco and has been spey casting and fishing for salmon and steelhead up and down the West Coast and in the Great Lakes since.