Keels Reel Fun!
Contact Us
Phone: # 509-281-0197
Email: keelbrightman@gmail.com
We do our very best to get back to folks right away. If we are out on the water with guests, it can be challenging to respond immedietly. We dedicate our day to the guest we have on the water. We wont be spending your day on the phone, so please be pacient with us while we focus on our guests day.
Text mesages are the best way to get an immediete response. Usualy within the hour. We can schedule a phone call and personalise your experience or answer any questions you may have. Please leave a detailed voice mesage if you choose to leave a phone mesage.
Thank you so much! We look forward to hearing from you!
Looking to book a trip? Not sure of some of the details? Feel free to go ahead and book your trip. Once your day is in the schedule, we can fully customize your experience.
OUR STAFF
Keel Brightman
Owner
Dont be fooled by the goofy grin and laid back attitude, keels a fishy guy. His background in all things fishing, kayaking, rafting, and snorkling rivers gives him a unique perspective on the underwater world of fish.
One of keels favorite parts of guiding, is improving peoples casting skills, as well as casting applications. He has an intimate understanding of casting dynamics. His attention to detail and an ability to break down casts and ideas into small manigable pieces is unique. He equaly enjoys helping someone make there first fly cast, or improving their two handed snake rolls.
Keel spends his free time fishing, fly tying, hunting, foraging, kayaking, snorkaling rivers to look at fish, mountain biking, hiking, skiing, and practicing forest yoga.
Brianna Murphy
First Mate
Brianna Murphy Is a pleasure to spend the day with. she is kind, pacient, and incredibly knowledgeable about the habbitats she has spent a lifetime studying. she grew up in Tumwater, WA near the old Olympia Brewery; enjoying the smell of cooking hops and the sound of the work whistle everyday. She grew up like most kids in her area, going to the local lake in the canoe and bringing back their daily limit of hatchery stocked rainbows.
She finished her degree in Paleontology in 2008, but it wasn't until she took a job for WDFW in the Methow Valley that her eyes were really opened to the splendor of fly fishing. She would sample areas of each of the rivers by fly fishing! she can't even begin to count how many flies or lengths of tippet she lost that summer learning to fly fish! She has spent the last 17 years working as a field biologist for WDFW. Trapping salmon and steelhead, tagging adult fish, snorkleing stream surveys gives her a deep understanding of fish behavior and habbitat.
Brianna may not boast about her acalades, but she is the real deal!