About Greg

Greg Becker is a 52-year-old semi-retired mechanical engineer who lives in Salida, Colorado with his wife Sarah, their two adult kids Mark and Anna, and their yellow Lab, Tippet. He started fly fishing in 2004 at age 32 when a coworker took him to Cheesman Canyon on the South Platte. The first day was terrible — couldn't cast, broke off three fish on the strike, lost a fly to the trees every twenty minutes. He went back the next weekend anyway.

Twenty years later, Greg fishes Colorado tailwaters and freestone rivers as his home waters, runs a couple Wyoming and Montana trips per year, and has made scattered forays into saltwater (Belize once, Florida Keys once) and Pacific Northwest steelhead (the Deschutes, once — "humbling"). He got serious around 2009 after his first guided trip on the Bighorn River in Montana.

After taking early retirement from manufacturing operations in 2023, he moved into part-time work at Ark Anglers, Salida's local fly shop, and started writing about gear he'd actually owned and fished. RM Fly Fishing is built on twenty years of Western trout experience — and explicit humility about the territory that experience doesn't cover. For saltwater he defers to Andy Mill and Aaron Adams (Bonefish & Tarpon Trust). For Spey and Pacific Northwest steelhead, April Vokey and Joel La Follette. For Euro nymphing technique, George Daniel (Dynamic Nymphing) and Devin Olsen (Tactical Fly Fisher). For fly tying, Charlie Craven — Colorado-based, and the voice Greg trusts most for Western trout patterns.

He fishes a Sage X 9' 5wt as his daily driver, paired with a Hatch Iconic 5+. He nymphs Euro-style with a Cortland Competition Nymph rod he's owned since 2018. He ties his own flies on a Norvise. He walks and wades — doesn't own a boat. He doesn't accept loaner gear from manufacturers, doesn't review rods he hasn't fished for a full season, and doesn't pretend to be an expert at anything he isn't.