Alex started his professional guiding career in 2005. After moving from his home town of St Louis MO and settling down in Colorado, Alex quickly became obsessed with hiking and exploring the many mountainous regions of his new home state. While spending many hours in the backcountry Alex started to realize that he needed to find even more reasons and activities to keep him occupied while out in the wilderness. This is when he discovered fly fishing. Who knew that this would set his life on a new and unforeseen path.

It did not take long for Fly fishing to become his obsession. He soon moved from the front range to the heart of the Rocky Mountains, got a job at a fly shop and started to hone his skills and knowledge of the sport. During the following years, Alex started taking people fishing, then began to learn to row a fishing boat and continued to expand his expertise.