Capt Joel's presentation will cover equipment, techniques and tactics for flats fishing when targeting bonefish, permit, and trevally.

 

About Capt Joel Stewart

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Joel Stewart grew up in Great Falls Montana where he was immersed in an outdoors culture. He learned to fish about the time he learned to walk, began to tie flies at age 6, and was tying commercially at 8. As a teenager, he worked summers in a tackle store and winters in a taxidermy studio. He spent one summer as a custom fly rod builder’s apprentice.

 

After graduating from high school, Joel enlisted in the Navy in 1985, to earn money for college. At that time, it was join the service or become a trout bum. Though he took the high ground and remains on active duty, he sometimes wonders how the trout bum plan would have worked out. His career in the Navy has allowed him to fish on six continents and catch dozens of species of fish, mostly on a fly rod.

 

Joel served in Iraq in 2005 and founded the Baghdad Angler’s Club and School of Fly Fishing. He wrote the book, A Fly Rod in My Sea Bag, about his time in Iraq and the club he started up to support service men and women far from home. In service to our country, he has spent 35 years in uniform, 21 of those years at sea, including command of the amphibious transport dock ship, USS ANCHORAGE (LPD 23).

 

Joel remains on active duty and is currently stationed on Diego Garcia as the commodore for a squadron of supply ships. Aside from his duties he holds a fly fishing class for all comers every Wednesday evening.