MacIntosh Fishing Guide Service

Kent Macintosh is a licensed California and Oregon professional fishing guide. He is certified by the American Red Cross in adult CPR and first aid and is fully bonded and insured.

Kent grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Oregon, to be precise. He caught his first steelhead trout at the age of eight and has been hooked ever since.

Growing up in Oregon Kent spent most of his spare time fishing the Columbia and

Willamette rivers and their many tributaries for salmon, trout, and steelhead.

Kent tried his hand at commercial salmon fishing working on salmon trollers as a puller off of the west coast of Washington and Oregon. He also traveled to Hawaii and crewed on a local fishing boat longling for ahi.

Kent’s passion for fishing and the natural world has taken him to many places.
It has also created many interesting vocational

opportunities as well.

Not only is Kent a Professional Fishing Guide, but also a licensed General Building Contractor, and is currently involved in stream habitat restoration.

As a park ranger and creek naturalist he led public tours up steelhead and coho salmon spawning streams in Marin County, California.

Among other things Kent was trained by CDFG to conduct habitat assessments. And he has

worked with DFG/NOAA monitoring their fish traps in Green Valley Creek and Austin Creek in the Russian River watershed in Northern California.

Kent is the current President of Northern California for the California State Council of Trout Unlimited and he is also the President of the local Redwood Empire chapter of Trout Unlimited, which has a membership of six hundred men and women.