Dan Hodkinson

Dan lives in Washington County, MD and is the owner of Fish N Float Adventures. He divides his time between running Fish N Float and as a Safety Officer for a mid sized company. He specializes in supporting research endeavors in remote locations and his work has taken him from British Columbia to the Amazon. Dan conducts training sessions on topics such as chainsaw safety, wildlife awareness, jet boat operation, and tower climbing and rescue systems. He is also authorized by OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) to teach one of their college level safety courses.

Dan has a lifelong passion for all types of fishing. Dan has been flyfishing Maryland waters extensively for the last 16 years, teaching people to flyfish for the last ten years. He has become an expert at vertical jigging from kayaks by adopting techniques from professional Bass and Walleye anglers and applying them to Maryland waters. Since 1987, Dan has been patterning the seasonal and diurnal movements of bass, musky and walleye in the Potomac, and has logged thousands of hours on this River.

Dan is an outdoor writer for various publications, including The Mid-Atlantic Fisherman and The Reading Eagle.

Amy Morrell

For larger parties, Amy assists with logistical set-up, gear preparation, photography and guiding. She grew up fishing and crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. She currently lives in Ellicott City and spends her time fishing the lakes and streams of Howard, Carroll, and Frederick counties. Amy is a web developer for a Maryland company. In her free time she enjoys backpacking, mountain biking, kayaking, and fishing. She has adapted her Ocean Kayak for various trolling systems and has taken it to waters in New York, Kansas, Virginia, and Wyoming in the last year. Amy has experience with kayaking the open ocean in Virginia and New Zealand, but often spends her time floating the Potomac or on tranquil lakes where she focuses on bass, yellow perch, trout, crappie, and freshwater stripers.