Old Republic Outdoors (830) 613-0629
Three generations fly fishing from stepping stones on a Hill Country river, rods out, heavy green bank behind them

Fly Fishing
— For Everyone

Guided fly fishing on the Hill Country rivers — taught by a world-record holder. All Gear Provided · From $399

A smiling couple on a sunlit Hill Country river bank, one of them holding a fly rod

From the bank

“I was a bit intimidated—but I really wanted to do this.”

“Ben is patient, with the heart of a teacher — and his stories! Can’t wait to go out with him again.”

Rebecca & Tim Geier First-time fly anglers · Hill Country

Trips & rates

Fly fishing the Hill Country rivers

One price covers the gear, the flies and the teaching. Never having held a fly rod is the point, not a problem.

An open fly box held in gloved hands, packed with poppers, hoppers and streamers
Hand-tied by your guide
Ben Christensen in a straw hat watching closely as a client ties a fly onto his tippet at a truck tailgate
Real instruction, at first-timer speed

Guided trips from

$399

All Gear Provided

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Not included: your Texas fishing license — a few minutes online at TPWD — and gratuity. A deposit holds your date.

You spend years teaching a boy to read the water. Then one morning he hands you a fly, and you catch the fish of your life on it.

The Chips ’N Salsa — a marabou soft-hackle fly with a bead head and dumbbell eyes, photographed against a plain ground
The Chips ’N Salsa · tied by Ben’s son

They caught a fish and checked what it had been eating. Olive damsel nymphs.

That night Ben’s son tied a fly to match — a creek damsel the boy designed himself and named the Chips ’N Salsa, “because every fish wants to eat it.”

Ben Christensen kneeling in the shallows of the Pedernales holding the 31-and-a-half pound blue catfish, his raft behind him
The fish, on my boy’s fly · Pedernales River, October 2021

The next morning — October 11th, 2021 — Ben waded the Pedernales with a four-weight and that fly. Forty minutes later he brought in a 31½-pound blue catfish on twelve-pound tippet. The IGFA certified it a fly-rod world record.

A woman and a teenage girl laughing together on a sunlit river bank, holding binoculars

Nobody remembers the fish.

They remember who took them.

You already know who you’d bring. Kids get busy, parents get older, and that window is shorter than it feels.

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For The Love Of The Outdoors — Pass It On

  • IGFA Fly-Rod World Record
  • FFI Roderick Haig-Brown Award
  • Texas Streams Coalition — Founding Member
  • Published Author
  • U.S. Marine Corps Veteran
  • 7th-Generation Texan
  • Former Texas Parks & Wildlife
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