Breckenridge Outfitters has been a fly shop and guide service on the same block of Main Street since the year the President signed NAFTA. We were named Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year in 1999, again in 2004, again in 2005, again in 2013, and Orvis Endorsed Shop of the Year in 2016. Thirty years of doing this gives you choices. Book a trip with one of us, or call us about it first.
Thirty years, four owners of the year, one shop of the year, one Sterling Building.
Breckenridge Outfitters has occupied the same block of Main Street through six US presidents, three Olympic ski seasons, and one global pandemic that we are choosing not to keep referencing. Below is the short version of how we got here, in the years that mattered most. The longer version lives in the shop, in the stories Tim and Ned tell when you ask them.
Breckenridge Outfitters opens on the ground floor of the Sterling Building, the pink-and-white historic block on N Main Street. A small fly shop, two guides, one season of inventory.
Orvis names Breckenridge Outfitters Endorsed Outfitter of the Year for the first time, five seasons after opening. The award still hangs in the shop.
Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year, second time. The team is up to twelve guides. The shop still occupies its original space on Main Street and has no plans to move.
Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year, third time, in consecutive years. The shop is now one of the most-decorated Orvis outfitters in the country.
Sarah Barclay joins the guide team. Two years later she founds the shop's Women's Learn-to-Fly-Fish program, a free monthly class that has been running every summer since.
Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year, fourth time. The team is up to eighteen guides. Lance Glaser is in his fortieth year of guiding.
Orvis names Breckenridge Outfitters Endorsed Shop of the Year. A different category from Outfitter of the Year. The shop now holds five Orvis awards.
Chip Swanson, who guides for the shop, is named Orvis Freshwater Guide of the Year. The shop has now produced both an Outfitter of the Year and a Guide of the Year.
Three decades on Main Street. An Orvis-trained team, deeper on the bench than any other shop in Summit County. The pink-and-white Sterling Building still has the wooden boardwalk and the same hours we opened with: dawn to after dark in summer, nine to five in winter.
Six trip types, all year-round, all included in the same thirty years of practice.
The most-booked trip of the year. Equipment, beverages, and a guide who has been on the water this week. Best for first-timers and intermediate anglers alike.
The committed-angler trip. Multiple stretches, multiple rigs, and every conditions adjustment we can make for you across a full day on water.
A guide on the oars, four to eight river miles in a day, fish water you cannot reach from the bank. Lunch and beverages included.
A short, in-town introduction. The first-fish trip. Good for visitors who want a real fish before deciding to commit a full day later in the week.
Every guide on this team has attended the Orvis Endorsement School.
The team is Orvis-trained, top to bottom. Tim West owns the shop and still guides when the schedule allows. Ned Parker manages it and is a former owner himself, which is the kind of generational handoff that does not usually happen at fly shops. Sarah Barclay founded the women's program in 2012 and has guided here for fifteen seasons. Lance Glaser is in his forty-seventh year of guiding and his twelfth year on an ESPN fishing show. Jackson Campbell is a Breckenridge native who started here as a high-school summer shop kid and has not left.
The rest of the team has their own stories. Each one is on the local water enough days a year to know what the river was doing on a Tuesday morning when you were thinking about a trip on Saturday. Pick the one whose specialty matches your day.
Read the full team page →Our guides post a weekly water report. Levels, temperatures, hatches, recommended flies. Read it before you book; we update it every Monday morning.
This week's report →Forty-five minutes in the shop, then a walk down to the Blue. Every weekend in summer, since 2003. No equipment required, no commitment to book a trip after.
See the next class →Full package $100/day, waders and boots $40, rod and reel $40. Walk in any time during shop hours. The full Orvis-endorsed retail shop is open the same hours.
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