Lenny Gliwa
As a young kid, I was lucky enough to have a father who introduced me to the outdoors and instilled in me a love of fishing at a very young age. I first picked up a fly rod when I was 8 years old and I haven't looked back since. I was lucky enough to join the TCO team as a young teenager working in the Bryn Mawr location, spending my time bouncing around the Southeastern part of the state while learning a ton from the guys in the shop and time spent on the water alike. I then moved to Central Pennsylvania where I have continued to work with TCO here in State College while attending Penn State University and further refining my skills as an angler on the amazing waters of this region. While trout are my usual species of choice, I love exploring the many other fisheries we have in our area. Swinging flies for steelhead in the Great Lakes, chasing stripers off the coast of New Jersey, stripping big flies for smallmouth and musky on the rivers of Central Pennsylvania, or casting to tailing carp in a pond somewhere, if I have a fly rod in hand, I'm having fun. When I'm not fishing or in the shop you may find me tying flies, hiking and camping, hanging in a tree with a bow in my hand, or sitting in a duck blind with my buddies.

John Parisi
I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and started fly fishing when I was around 12 years old. It was the perfect outlet to get out of the city for a few hours on the weekends. Most of my time was spent on the limestone streams in the Lehigh Valley area. I also got into fly tying around the same age. I still remember the first trout I caught on one of my own flies. I was always good at art and fly fishing complimented that perfectly. Trout just don't live in ugly places. The landscapes and fish I would see always made their way into my paintings. Whether it's brook trout in small tributaries or browns and rainbows on larger tailwaters, I've always felt at home on the water. My favorite part of fly fishing is that you never really figure everything out. No two days are the same, it's a constant learning experience.