Why RISE?

We are a boutique adventure service, utilizing small, local businesses in our service areas to guide our clients to epic, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Every client is family. Every trip is customized to ensure success. Andrew is your on-site, constant guide, as well as personal photographer and concierge on every trip we offer. The stories and photos you walk away with will live forever.

The RISE fly fishing adventures was born of passion for all things fishy. Andrew Slaton has been an international award winning landscape and active lifestyle photographer for nearly twenty five years, and his experience in the outdoors is unparalleled. He spent eight years living in a travel trailer, exploring the U.S., fishing any and every body of water containing fish. He has invested twenty years exploring the Wind River Range specifically, as well as surrounding Wyoming landscapes, on foot with a rod and reel. If you are seeking an authentic fly fishing adventure, he’s your man.

What’s Included in our trips?

  • Personal concierge service

  • Trip planning, including every detail

  • Professional photographer to document

  • Private, online gallery of all images from the trip

  • Local guides

  • Transportation from time of arrival until end of trip

  • Excellent, locally sourced meals (typically choice steaks, organic vegetables, single malt scotch whiskies, wine, plus more)

  • Fishing licenses

  • Beautifully designed commemorative hats, stickers, and shirts

  • Luxury accommodations (except where noted when camping)

  • Stalink internet (or wifi) at camp/ lodge

  • Comradery, connection, and friendship

  • Healthy competition

  • Awards/ certificates (Wyoming cutt-slam, Master Angler, Trophy Angler)

  • Campfires, embellished fish stories, pipe/ cigar smoke (optional), and good times

  • The most epic scenery

  • Adventure stories that would make Hemingway proud

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WHAT RISE DOES FOR YOU

Misty forest landscape with sun rays filtering through trees.

FULL-SERVICE TRIP PLANNING

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Work with Andrew and his team to create the most stress-free, epic adventure. The RISE will take care of all the preparations necessary to ensure the best experience possible.

CUSTOM ART

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Every trip includes Andrew as your personal photographer, leaving you with much more than just the memories… The RISE offers beautiful artwork chronicling your adventure!

GUIDED ADVENTURE

Every trip includes local guides, with the latest knowledge of what’s biting on which flys. Learn everything you need to know to become a better angler on each and every RISE hosted trip.

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ANDREW SLATON


Photographer, writer, adventurer

For eight years, Andrew and his wife Ellen traveled the U.S. full-time in a travel trailer. He backpacked 50+ nights in one summer through Wyoming’s wilderness, had frequent, harrowing run ins with grizzly bears, caught multiple 12+ foot pythons in Florida’s Everglades, section hiked through alligators and water moccasins on the Florida Trail, ocean kayaked ten thousand islands stalking snook and camping along the way. There are countless stories Andrew could tell that could keep the attention of the most ADHD among us. Including a run in with Hezbolla in southern Lebanon, getting caught in an uprising in Haiti, and eating meals with warring tribes in South Sudan.

Andrew hasn’t had a “real” job in 25 years. In his decade+ of sharing his passion for photography leading workshops all over the world, the desire arose in him to organize a different kind of adventure for like-minded people.

His passion for fly-fishing blossomed and began to consume his time. Andrew has now fished and learned some of the most epic waters, and his longing to share that sense of adventure with others has grown to the point of necessity. He began planning epic adventures that he, himself, dreamed about.

“I am planning, shaping, and facilitating expeditions for adventurous anglers. Gathering like minded folks who want to sit around a fire in the evening, recalling the joys of the day on the river, over pipe smoke and single malts. Good food, camaraderie, and the pristine waters of the world in all their surrounding glory... and of course, the fish that haunt our wildest dreams. This is more than a fishing trip, this is the stuff of legends.”

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Logo for Wyoming Game and Fish Master Angler program, featuring fishing lures on a yellow background.
Logo for Wyoming Game and Fish Master Angler program featuring yellow background with fishing lure illustrations.
Wyoming Game & Fish Department and Trout Unlimited logo on a coin with 'Bonneville,' 'Snake River,' 'Yellowstone,' and 'Colorado River' written.
Wyoming Game and Fish Master Angler logo with fish hook designs on a yellow background.
Logo of Wyoming Game and Fish Master Angler program with fishing lure illustrations.
Wyoming Game & Fish Department and Trout Unlimited logo with rivers listed: Bonneville, Snake River, Yellowstone, Colorado River.
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Wilderness First Aid, CPR Certified, 5X Wyoming Master Angler Award Winner, 3X Wyoming Cutt-Slam Award

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