Michael Pepi,
Michael wears many hats in the Sportsman’s Industry and recently he has been making quite a name for himself. High Mountain Archery selected Michael as their cinematographer to document "The Summit" DVD series. Eddie Bauer sponsored and featured Michael in their Fall 2012 Outfitter Book. Michael guides professionally around the world for prestigious outfitters such as Cheyeynne Ridge Lodges, South Dakota & Nebraska, Tipiluike in Patagonia; currently, he is spanning the globe with the High Adventure Company. Michael is the Head of Marketing for Jonas Brothers Taxidermy in Brewster, NY. He recently founded Pepi Wild Devotion, which consists of professional training in fly-fishing, casting & fly tying. Michael also trains hunting dogs. In his leisure time, Michael enjoys competing in sporting clays and fly fishing for steelhead & bonefish. Check out Michael at: pepiwilddevotion.com |
Ted Heintz,Ted has been fishing as long as he can remember and fly fishing for over twenty years. Ted started fly fishing in saltwater, fishing many of the back bays of Southern New England, New York, and New Jersey in pursuit of striped bass. His passion for fishing in saltwater with the fly rod led to an easy transition to the sweet water pursuing bass and trout. Before long, Ted started planning his summers around trips west in chase of cutthroats, browns, and ‘bows. Ted has fished for trout throughout the Northeast and the Northwest, and, of course, in the blue ribbon streams of his home state, Pennsylvania, on such famed rivers as the Delaware, Housatonic, Ausable, Deschutes, Bitterroot, Roaring Fork, Clark Fork, and Fishing Creek.
Over the course of three summers, Ted worked as a mate helping clients haul in stripers, blues, and the occasional tuna on Captain Tom’s Charters out of Nantucket Island, MA, his favorite saltwater fly-fishing paradise. Ted also worked for Mystic Tackleworks in research and development for over three years. If left to his own devices, Ted would spend the rest of his life shooting size 12 stimulators to willing trout, big poppers to blues and stripers, and wooden arrows at whitetail deer, but work and family prevent such dreams. When off the water and out of the woods, Ted is in the classroom teaching high school English at Rye Country Day School or chasing his two young children at home. |