10 Day Guide Training Course
November 6-15 , 2026
Available spots
Service Description
For over 25 years, Guy Jeans has dedicated his career to the fly-fishing industry as the owner and outfitter of Kern River Fly Shop & Guide Service, a Fly Fishers International Certified Casting Instructor, and founder of the Guy Jeans School of Fly Fishing. His experience as a guide, educator, and business owner has helped shape one of the most comprehensive guide training programs available. This intensive 10-day Professional Fly Fishing Guide School is designed for anglers who aspire to become professional guides or simply want to elevate their fly-fishing skills. Through classroom instruction and extensive hands-on training, students learn multiple fly-fishing techniques both fresh, warm and salt water and how to teach them, casting, reading water, guide ethics, river safety, guiding, CPR and First Aid, customer service, and business management. More than a fishing school, this program develops the confidence, professionalism, leadership, and communication skills needed to create exceptional experiences for clients and build a successful career in the fly-fishing industry. COURSE OUTLINE - Cost: $4000.00 - Thursday November 6, 2026 - Saturday November 15, 2026 - Lunches provided - Dinner provided last day of instruction - Morning Instruction: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Break/Lunch: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. - Afternoon Instruction: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Day 1 - Introductions and outline for the week's activities, Knots, Fishing and Casting Evaluations Day 2 - Knots, Marketing, Social Media, Teaching Casting, Wading and Fishing Day 3-Logistics, History, Entomology, Casting Faults and Fixes Day 4 -First Aid and CPR Cards, Mending and Small Stream Techniques Day 5 - Lunch Preparation for Clients, Freestone and Spring Creek Techniques, Tenkara Day 6 -Rowing and Guiding Strategies and European Fishing Techniques, Czech, Polish, French, Spanish Nymphing Day 7 - Casting Certification Instructor Preparation and Guiding Practice Warm Water Fly Fishing Techniques and Guiding Day 8 -Salt Water Casting and Fly-Fishing Techniques Guiding in the Surf Day 9 -Knot Test, Teaching and Learning Styles, Introduction to Spey Casting, Guiding Practice Day 10 - Meeting and Guiding your own clients, Dinner, Final Evaluation and Graduation
Cancellation Policy
At Kern River Fly Shop, we operate year-round with a group of professional, full-time fishing guides and instructors. When scheduling a fishing trip or class with us, we ask you to try to avoid canceling or rescheduling your fishing trip as this creates scheduling and booking conflicts with our guides and instructors. The cancellation and booking policy can be found below. This policy reflects the rights of Kern River Fly Fishing Inc, and applies to all of our fishing trips. We understand that unforeseen situations may arise beyond control which sometimes affects travel plans. We believe in a fair approach to cancellations. Our cancellation policy is such that it protects our guides’ livelihoods if a scheduled guide trip is canceled. In some situations, we will allow paid trips that were canceled to go towards future trip bookings. Only Kern River Fly Shop may cancel your guided trip prior to the scheduled date due to weather, river conditions, or mechanical breakdown. If you need to cancel a reservation and receive a refund of your deposit/payment, we must be notified at least 30 days prior to the trip. Should you need to cancel with less than thirty days notice, we will make every effort to rebook your spot on that particular trip date and refund your payment. However, if we are unable to find another client for your spot, we will not be able to return your payment and full payment will be required. Unfortunately, we cannot make any exceptions. We hope that you understand the necessity for this policy to ensure that we can continue to run our guide trips on a sound financial basis. We realize that emergencies do happen, and please know we will make every effort to re-book your spot, but if we don’t, we must uphold this policy, even in the case of an emergency. *Weather/Water cancellations are strictly at the guide’s discretion and are made to ensure a safe, successful trip.