He would give a pitch about how they could benefit from partnering with RareWaters and see if they were interested.Īs the company started to pick up steam and partnering with other landowners, the company expanded to employ a more robust team, which includes current chief executive officer RJ Hosking who was intrigued by the company because of its potential to transform the landscape of the modern fly-fishing scene. In the early days of the company, Stucky would personally cold call landowners by looking at county clerk and assessor data online. In 2018 Stucky launched the business as a true startup with the mission of restoring some of the tranquility that is often associated with the sport.Īt the company’s core, RareWaters seeks to decrease the current strain on public waterways by partnering with willing landowners to lease previously underutilized and overlooked river access points to anglers. With the hope of trying to address the problem, Stucky began exploring different options and in the process discovered there were a lot of fishable places that ran through people’s properties.įrom there RareWaters was truly born.

Get the top stories in your inbox every morning. Stay up-to-date on all things Summit County. “I grew up on a farm in Kansas and you used to be able to knock on a neighbor’s door and ask them if you could go pheasant hunting. “I thought that there had to be a better way to do this,” Stucky said. In addition to every parking space being snatched by fellow anglers, Stucky said that he would also encounter poor fishing etiquette around big crowds, which ended up making the overall experience of the day being a far cast away from the serenity he was seeking while out on the river.

I got sick of going to places, pulling up at 7 o’clock on a Wednesday and every parking space for miles being filled with people.” It is not only a problem in Colorado, it is a problem all over the United States these days. “The more I got obsessed with the sport, the more frustrated I got with the overcrowding at public waterways,” Stucky said. As Stucky grew more experienced and involved in the sport, he started to realize a major problem fly-fishing is currently facing.

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