David
Pickering Click thumbnail for larger image 
With over forty years
fly fishing experience and nearly twenty of those
living in the Goulburn Valley, David is a streamcraft
expert with an intimate understanding of the rivers
around Thornton.
In his earlier year's,
day and weekend trips to waters within driving
distance of Melbourne helped him to hone his skills
and get a real appreciation of what fly fishing
in Victoria had to offer. The culmination of all
this experience was a walk out on the corporate
world and a new life as a full time fly fishing
guide in Thornton.
His move to the country
came in 1989 and he has been a local fixture on
the rivers around his home town ever since. David
is 'fish-mad' and every spare moment, dollar and
thought is devoted to fly fishing for trout. A
passion that has never waned and frequently annoys
his business partners!
Starting Goulburn
Valley Fly Fishing Centre in 1994 with Geoff Hall
was the beginning of a new life. Since then David
has taught thousands of people to fish with a
fly rod or simply guided them down the Goulburn
or Swampy Plain Rivers on a raft trip. More recently
he has been leading week long trips in search
of trout on New Zealand's South Island as well
as producing several instructional/feature DVDs
on the sport.
David is a patient
and knowledgeable guide who is always out there
on the rivers that he loves so much. He is a talented
and experienced fly fisher, but more importantly
he has that special quality of being able to impart
his knowledge to others with ease and dexterity.
Member
of the PFIGA
Remote Area
First Aid
Swiftwater Rescue Technician 1
Geoff
Hall Click thumbnail for larger image 
Geoff has been a fly fisher all of his life. He has extensive experience across Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and New Zealand and has been a full time trout guide for the past eleven years. He spent much of his youth growing up and fishing around Alexandra and moved to Thornton in the mid-seventies.
He is a highly trained rafting guide with experience on the Goulburn and Swampy Plains rivers. He and David Pickering were the first to run a fly fishing drift boat down the Goulburn river and are responsible for developing and refining many techniques which are now considered mandatory for fishing this river.
Geoff's professional background in education makes him a first class instructor. He is a people person that rarely seems to switch off and has now been teaching fly fishing for over forty years.
Geoff contributes widely to the fishing industry's social, economic and political agenda. He was a member of the Fisheries Co-management Council and also enjoyed a short tenure as president of the Australian Trout Foundation. He has worked closely with VR Fish over the years and has gone to bat for trout on numerous occasions.
He jointly owns Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre, Victoria's only destination Fly Shop and guiding service, with David Pickering and Antony Boliancu.
Member
of the PFIGA
Remote Area
First Aid
Swiftwater
Rescue Technician 1
James Galloway Click thumbnail for larger image 
James is the youngest guide on our books but don't let that fool you. Over the past few seasons he has matured into a top guide and a real favorite of those going to New Zealand. While we have groomed him for a several years, he is a natural when it comes to working with people and his guiding skills are up there with the best of them.
James recently left university and is pursuing his fly fishing full time. He does several months a year guiding seven day's a week in New Zealand. He has acquired a veterans understanding of the sport and the methods involved. Many clients return each summer on the provisor that they be guided by James.
While fly fishing for trout is his favorite type of fishing, he also does quite a bit of bream and bass fishing, as well as chasing murray cod and yellowbelly. He
is a talented angler, skilled in all major sports fishing methods and has a huge future in this industry. He is the forerunner of his generation in the Australian fly fishing scene and we are indeed lucky to have him as part of our team.
Soon to be Member
of the PFIGA
First Aid
Antony
Boliancu Click thumbnail for larger image 
Antony has lived
in Thornton since 1996 and has been guiding since
the day he made the move from Melbourne. In more recent times his role has shifted from guiding/teaching to that of administration. His day to day duties involve looking after the websites, bookings and generally making sure that things run smoothly.
Antony regularly organises trips and film
shoots to New Zealand's South Island and oversees the New Zealand trips each year from first point of contact until the client returns home. Most of his work is outside of the public eye and in the background.
Antony is a qualified
drift boat guide with many thousands of hours
on the oars to his name. His specialties are sight fishing both here and in NZ as well as drift boat fly fishing. He has fished for trout extensively in Tasmania, the Snowy Mountains and New Zealand's South Island. As a teenager he lived on the mid north coast of NSW and often returns to chase fishy critters up there, particularly during the trout closed season from June to August.
Member
of the PFIGA
First Aid
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