Hilary started her fly-fishing career as a teenaged guide in West Glacier, Montana. She guided and worked in the fly shop at Glacier Anglers through college, then took her journalism degree to Portland, Oregon where she worked as a television news anchor and reporter. She eventually returned to Montana to guide and co-own and operate Outside Media and Trout TV for nearly a decade. Today, she’s still guiding on the Flathead River and the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and owns and runs her fly shop, Lary’s Fly & Supply in her hometown of Columbia Falls, Montana. She is an instructor at School of Trout, and SheJumps, serves as a national board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, sits on the advisory committee for Guiding For the Future, serves on the Northern Rockies River Council, is a climate activist with Protect Our Winters and is a contributing editor for Fly Fisherman Magazine. She loves hanging out with her three-legged yellow lab, two teen daughters, Ella and Delaney and her partner, Ebon, especially when they volunteer on the oars.
Hilary Hutcheson
