High N Dry Fishing Products | The Fishing Team & Who We Are

OUR STORY

Our company is made up of people who love fly-fishing and the outdoors. We also have a great respect for our natural world.

Our founding members, Vince, Dennis, and Ken, had known each other for many years and, in fact, worked for different companies that competed against each other. They were brought together each year by a mutual supplier to fly fish in Montana. Interestingly enough, it was the sport of fly-fishing brought them together and led to them becoming great friends.

During one of their trips, and after a long day of fishing, they were enjoying dinner and discussing the day’s events. The topic moved to floatants and how most of the products on the market were either harmful to the environment, didn’t work, or both. They thought they could make better products than what was available.

Thus, High N Dry Fishing Products, LLC was born.

We established three objectives for this new venture:

Make the best products available
Have fun
Sell our new HnD products on a world-wide basis

One of the unique aspects to of High N Dry team is that two of our founding members were brilliant professional chemists with inquisitive minds. Between them they have over 100 U.S. patents. Vince has since passed away, but Ken is still very busy improving our existing products and testing new products to put on the market.

The first step for the founders was to scientifically evaluate all available products. Over time they noticed that the performance of the existing floatants was poor and most were solvent based, flammable, and environmentally unfriendly. They paid close attention to the design approach, materials used, and performance of each product. Armed with this information, the team was able to develop the most advanced, highest performing, solvent free products available. We take great pride in the quality of the materials we used and our approach has always been focused on making sure our products perform better than all the others.

Although this was a lot of hard work, it has been rewarding and we sincerely hope you enjoy fishing the High N Dry way!

The High N Dry Team

Ken Myers

Ken is a founding member of High N Dry Fishing Products. Ken is also one of three members of High N Dry still working another full time job. He is the VP of Operations at Raven Industries, a leading independent manufacturer of toner for photocopiers and laser printers. Ken brings to the High N Dry team over 30 years experience in product development, designing, and bringing new products to market. Ken is also trained as a chemist, and, along with founding member Vincent Ting, developed the world’s best performing, safe, and environmentally friendly floatants.

Ken currently oversees the production of High N Dry products in Latrobe, Pennsylvania where he lives and works. Ken is always busy working in the lab researching and developing new products to put on the market. When he isn’t designing the world’s best floatants, Ken enjoys the outdoors and the sport of fly fishing and all the fun it brings. He especially enjoys the pursuit of the elusive 26 ½ inch German brown, which, if he’s lucky, he will see one of the other High N Dry members catch in his lifetime.

Chris Tronnes

Chris is the newest member of the High N Dry Team. He joined the High N Dry manufacturing team in January of 2019. Chris started fishing with his dad and brother when he was younger and his love of fly fishing and the outdoors has continued to grow ever since. He enjoys exploring nature and fishing in the Black Hills of South Dakota while staying at the family cabin. Chris has been in the telecommunications industry for many years and also owns a rental company.

Chris has primary responsibility for manufacturing our powder products in Mitchell, South Dakota where he lives in with his wife and two daughters. Every once in a while, they even let him go fishing.

Ben Tronnes

Ben's primary role with High N Dry is in the marketing, sales, and administrative side of the business. Ben is a former trial lawyer, practicing mostly health care law and civil litigation. Currently, his "other" job is as Associate Counsel for USA Hockey in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Ben has been fly fishing for almost 20 years, honing his skills in the beautiful trout streams of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ben has three young children and hopes to instill in them the same love of the outdoors that he has. Because of his comparative youth, and the litany of fake injuries befalling his High N Dry teammates, Ben is generally in charge of rowing when they’re on the river.