Ben Levin was born and raised in rural Arkansas and has been fishing the bass streams and trout tailwaters of the Ozarks since he was old enough to walk. His passion for fly fishing began when he first picked up a fly rod at age 10. Ben has over 25 years of experience across a wide and diverse range of the fly fishing industry and typically spends well over 200 days a year on the water. A life-long fishing guide and instructor on his home waters, Ben has also spent over a decade of his career guiding many other destinations including Chile, Alaska, and Louisiana, as well as the Henry’s Fork and South Fork of the Snake River, the Madison, and the greater Yellowstone region. Arkansas has always been his home base though, where he has a deep personal connection to the Ozarks rivers and streams.

He owns and operates Fly South Adventures, a full time guide service that specializes in guided trips for all species across the Ozarks as well as hosted travel to fly fishing destinations across the world. Ben is also a fly designer, accomplished photographer, and writer, whose work has appeared in Fly Fisherman magazine and various publications focused on fly fishing the American South. He has worked extensively with conservation organizations in the White River watershed to preserve and promote water quality across the Ozarks. In his free time Ben enjoys chasing tarpon in Florida, permit in the Caribbean, and just about anything else that swims in saltwater. When he has time, Ben also likes hunting in the spring turkey woods, or hiking, floating, and camping on wilderness stretches of river in Arkansas as well as the Rocky Mountains with his family and his chocolate lab, Rio Bug.