Chris' Bio​

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Chris Leonard is a career history-social science teacher at Mammoth High School. His greatest passions are education and fly fishing, making him a choice fly fishing instructor and on-water guide. He guides through Kittredge Sports during the summer, also weekends and holidays during the school year. Rivers and lakes. Tenkara and Western rods. He has lived in the Eastern Sierra fulltime since 2004. His favorite waters to fish and guide include the Owens River, Hot Creek, Rush Creek, Rock Creek, San Joaquin River, and Crowley Lake.

 

A seasoned traveler, he has chased trout as close as the Western USA, as far away as the Midwest, Eastern USA, Central America and South America. He has hooked steelhead in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, redfish in New Orleans and Texas, and bonefish, permit, and tarpon in Belize. His passion for fly fishing began in 2005 when he started the Mammoth High School Fly Fishing Club. Chris is also a founding board member of the Crowley Fish Foundation.

 

His program is a story of how the creation of the Mammoth High School Fly Fishing Club led him on a journey of fly fishing and guiding throughout the Eastern Sierra. He did not know how to fly fish when he started the club in 2005. Now, twenty years later, he is a seasoned angler. He will share stories, techniques, and tactics for fly fishing the majestic Eastern Sierra range. The Eastern Sierra is a jewel of a region for fly fishing - filled with creeks, rivers, and lakes, both on and off the beaten path. It’s a beautiful part of the country, and a great place to wet a line.

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Here is a link to the presentation if you’d like to view it before he presents it with detail:

https://kittredgesports.com/wpcontent/uploads/2021/01/MammothFisheries-Summer-Trifecta.pdf

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Here is a link to the Crowley Fish Foundation:

https://crowleyfishfoundation.org/

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