Alberto Rey is  a fly fishing guide, an artist, a writer, a retired distinguished professor and the founder and director of a youth fly fishing program.  In 2020, he was a finalist for the Orvis’s Freshwater Guide of the Year Award and the winner of the Orvis Guide of the Year in 2021.  His paintings and videos can be found in over twenty museum collections and have been in over two hundred exhibitions and screenings. His illustrated articles and artwork have graced the covers and pages of Gray's Sporting Journal, Art of Angling Journal, Fish and Fly Magazine, American Angler, Saltwater Fisherman, The Drake,  Angler’s Journal, Virginia Sportsman and Buffalo Spree. Alberto has also written and illustrated three books, has had four books written about his work. He is also the founder and director of the Children in the Stream/ 4H Youth Fly Fishing Program for over thirty years.