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Ellis Ward Guide Service

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Fishing Guide, tyer, fly designer, streamer & dry fly nut

11/10/2026

EPxSF shad

Stacks, loops, and scissors.

UV flex tail on a shank for a little wobble, but this thing dead man

I also got crafty with the alcohol markers and did some blending with a rag and rubbing alcohol. Making the artists in my family proud Laura Joan Studio
Julie Kippins

Much needed vise time, and some freestyling and creative stuff for the first time in too long. 👍

11/04/2026

Ron and K putting in work and willing a musky into the net!

You can see the second picture how happy Ron was to show Kaylin a musky... And how excited she was to see one.

We moved a few others and Ron was doing all of the things a muskie angler can do to make it a multi fish day... Hit the spots and fish them hard, and also hit the other water and fish that hard too 😁

Great way to kick off November, and plenty of Musky fishing ahead of us in this 26-27 season.

Gimme a shout if you want to chase these bad boys and girls with flies or lures

11/02/2026

After Jake got his 27 1/4" on fly, with limited time remaining on the boat until post spawn, and, for the first time in...3, 4 years?...he revealed that he is a big time problem with a jerk bait.

Fun times with a hot bite, good anglers, and a DSLR, including a father son double with one on fly and one on spin.

Thank you Jake and RC for your hard work on my boat, for supporting my work, and for being good dudes. Always a good time.

I do have a few open days this week. First time in a while and I'm currently looking forward to tying, getting tails going, combing through a few more days of pictures, and fishing on my own, but feel free to interrupt that if you're trying to get out for browns or muskies!

11/01/2026

Swim swim stop

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10/28/2026

Jake also fed this fish some feathers...

27 1/4" and 13" around 😭😭

Between a few different things happening, the brownies have been losing their minds, and as long as we keep ours right, it's there for us.

Blue skies and warm enough that I had to ask these guys to stop catching fish for a minute so I could get my waders off - I still regret it.

I'm incredibly happy for, and proud of, this dude. It's obvious how much he fishes as soon he touches a fly rod, and just as obvious how thoughtful he is in his approach and his tying.

Congrats Jacob !!

10/25/2026

Jake fed feathers to a real show off of a creek fish a couple days ago 💅

Nice way to re-enter a very busy stretch after spending the last week in Florida with my family, and of course always good spending time with Jake and his dad RC

10/14/2026

Franco checking in for a mouse eating 22" and change.

As always, the result of combining good attitude, consistent quality of presentations while changing the presentation somewhat consistently 🫣, and a couple false starts to warm up (we get to say these were either bigger or smaller fish, depending on how each might benefit the story)

Happy birthday dude!

10/08/2026

Connor started fishing with me when I was just getting going. Before google reviews, before my Instagram looked like it does now (I do have feelings about this); when I was advertising my guiding through my tying.

Yesterday, he stuck a proper 24" river born and bred buck - a male creek fish. One that fully corked a 7 weight and had both of us looking at that 15lb leader.

Doing this under blue skies and making the cast and the retrieve that elicited the strike...it's never an accident when a fish like this comes to the boat.

A big, chewed, UV copper and White dungeon ✔️✔️

Deserved fish, and thanks for the faith since the early days my dude 👊👊

10/03/2026

Sean batting the cycle and going yard in the bottom of the 9th

After fishing dry flies and streamers all day and getting a good number of browns on both - including a beautiful specimen with an even better eat in frog water - Sean put on about 15 minutes of a jerk bait clinic to close things out, and got paid for one the many jaw dropping casts into structure.

Blue skies and clear...these days do happen 🥵

Thanks for the work, Sean - deserved fish here.

Address

Johnson City, TN
37601

Opening Hours

Monday	5am - 11pm
Tuesday	5am - 11pm
Wednesday	5am - 11pm
Thursday	5am - 11pm
Friday	5am - 11pm
Saturday	5am - 11pm
Sunday	5am - 11pm

Telephone

+15135430019

Website

http://elliswardflies.com/request-a-date

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