Fly fishing education and guide trips in Cle Elum Washington.
Woman owned. Woman led.
Trout Psychology offers immersive, deep-dive fly fishing experiences designed to turn everyday anglers into experts.
Every green pin marks a state from which a student has traveled to attend our offerings!
We know that our students and anglers are the heart and soul of everything we do. We actively seek feedback and revise our curriculum each year to ensure we offer the very best fly fishing education possible.
An Offering for Every Angler
Whether you’ve never held a fly rod before or you’re a lifetime angler, we have an educational offering for you.
Even our guided trips are full of knowledge that you won’t receive with any other outfitter.
Check out our offerings page to view our educational opportunites and take a personalized quiz and see where we think you would thrive.
The Best Fly Fishing Education in the Pacific North West.
It’s a bold claim with a bold guarantee. We guarantee your mastery of the taught skills, measured against our internal skill criteria. If you don't meet that benchmark by the end of your experience, we'll work with you virtually 1:1, at no charge, until you do.
Our founder studied how people learn for a living for over a decade. Now, she brings that knowledge to you in the form of fly fishing education. To learn more about that, read about our Unique Methods.
We are educators first in everything we do. Even our guide trips.
We truly believe in teaching fly fishing as a craft to pass on to others. For us, education isn’t the low-cost entry point for the guide-trip sales funnel. We want to impart as much fly fishing knowledge onto you as possible, so that you can enrich your life the same way we have throughout ours. Even our guided trips go above and beyond to teach you the skills and the why behind everything. See what sets us apart by reading Our Mission.
The Trout Psychology Methods are developed by professional instructors for fly fishing students.
Designed to remove guesswork and provide a structured decision-making framework, students learn how to think like a trout, so that they can fish like a professional.
See what Steph has to say about her experience with the Trout Psychology Methods!
Meet the Founder
Kristen is a behavior science and teaching specialist with a B.S. in Behavior Analysis. She is a people person extraordinaire, and a certified trout-bum dirt-bag. She approaches fly fishing education with a clear, no-nonsense curriculum coupled with a love for people and a desire to share the true craft of fly fishing.
Contact Kristen for inquiries and questions at 206-659-5501