Teach, don’t just hand over rods
You’ll rig, cast, read water and fight your own fish — with us coaching at your elbow. Skills compound; handouts don’t.
Meet the Beaudins
A father and son from the Snohomish Valley with one shared obsession: putting people on fish — and sending them home better anglers than they arrived.
Our story
Raised by the river.
Michael put a rod in Ashton’s hands before he could ride a bike. Our family put down roots in the Snohomish Valley, and this river system did the rest — bikes dumped in the brush at the Reiter access, egg patterns tied at the kitchen table, steelhead stories traded over dinner until they turned into lesson plans.
Years of guiding friends, family and friends-of-friends made it obvious: the best part of a day on the water isn’t the fish you land — it’s watching someone else land their first. So we built Northwest Anglers around that feeling.
Every trip is led by Ashton — Michael is on the water too, rowing the boat, rigging backups and backing up the coaching. No subcontractor guides, no cattle boats. Two generations, one standard: you leave a better angler than you arrived.
How we guide
What we stand for.
Protect the fisheries we love
Catch-photo-release on wild fish, barbless options, proper handling, and respect for closures — because the next generation deserves this too.
Safety before swagger
Licensed, insured, CPR/first-aid certified. Heated boats, quality PFDs, honest weather calls. The river is serious; so are we.
Credentials
The boring-but-important stuff.
- WDFW licensed fishing guides
- Fully insured commercial operations
- CPR / First-Aid certified
- Drift boat & walk-wade operations, Snohomish-based
- Members of the local angling & conservation community
Spend a day on our home water.
We’ll show you the holes we grew up on.