About Ed Lombardo

ESPN selected 12 of some of the best fly fishers in America to compete in its first Great Outdoor Games Competition, which was held in Lake Placid NY in the summer of 2000. Ed Lombardo was one of the twelve competitors. Some of the other competitors were Doug Swisher, Wendy & Terry Gun, and Brian O’Keefe. Ed has more than 35 years experience in fly fishing.

20 years ago Ed Lombardo founded the New England Fly School of Fly Fishing at the W. Alton Jones Campus of URI. He is also Chief Fly Fishing Instructor at Addieville East Farm and Deer Creek Farm, both shooting and fly fishing preserves.

Ed is a veteran fly fisher, guide, instructor, and expert fly tier. With over thirty-five years experience, he has fished for such diverse species as trout, steelhead, Atlantic salmon, black bass, striped bass, bluefish, and false albacore. He has 22 years experience fly fishing the fabulous Big Horn River, the Yellowstone National Park area, and Spring Creeks of Montana. He has also fished the Florida Keys for Tarpon and Bonefish.

He is a professional lecturer, fly fishing writer, amateur entomologist on fly fishing, and writes for both national as well as local print and TV media. He is also a member of the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Honorary Life Member of United Fly Tiers of RI, and Honorary Member of the Smithfield Sportsman's Club. And he established and coordinated a Fly Fishing course at the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus and works as lead fly fishing instructor for RI/DEM’S Dept. of Fish and Wildlife’s Aquatic Education Program.