May I Share The Outdoors With You...

Anyone can enjoy the great outdoors. The most important way to do this is to utilize a guide service that places your needs and desires as a high priority. At PAF Guide Services we place your needs and desires only second to your safety. Our philosophy is simple. We believe that you deserve to be able to experience the great outdoors the way it should be, in the safest environment with your needs and desires being addressed as though you were family. 

  
Your Guide & Instructor
James "Scott" Hammons
My name is James "Scott" Hammons and I have a passion for the wilderness and a desire to share my passion with those who wish to enjoy the wilderness. Through my experiences I have found that the wilderness offers an excellent way for a family, father & son, mother & daughter, father & daughter or mother & son to build a good and solid relationship.

I have enjoyed the wilderness and fishing since I was a child. In high school I was turn on to what the outdoors really has to offer in High School when I attended a wilderness school. As I grew older I gained an even greater appreciation of what the wilderness had to offer. I have been fishing, hunting, camping and hiking in Upstate New York since 1990.

My company's name says it all "Preserve the Art of Fishing". I have been fly-fishing, fly-tying and building custom rods for over 20 years and have done this for both freshwater and saltwater. I have spent the last 13 years doing this in Upstate New York for everything from salmon & steelhead to pike & walleye to trout & sunfish.

Through the years I have tried and experimented many different styles of fly-casting most of which was modified versions of the traditional casting stoke - between 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock. I have found a style that anyone can learn and be able to cast with some distance and a great deal of accuracy and prefer to teach it to new students. Because tradition is important and fly-fishing is an art form I do teach both.

I have professionally tied flies for fly shops and built custom fly rods & spinning rods for Preserve the Art of Fishing's customers. 

Guide Credentials:

  • Licensed New York State Outdoor - License for
    Fishing, Hunting, Hiking and Camping. Lic# 4208
  • NYSOGA*  Outdoor Leadership Training Program.
  • NYSOGA*  Water Safety For Guides.
  • National Safety Council's Standard First Aid Certified.
  • National Safety Council's Adult CPR Certified.
  • Currently an Assistant Scout Master with Boy Scouts of America in Northville New York. 
  • Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor for Orienteering, Fly fishing and Fishing.

*NYSOGA - New York State Outdoor Guide Association
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