by Jeff | Feb 9, 2024 | 2 Comments
So you know, my website is updating and being rebuilt. If pages are giving you trouble this is why. It’s hard to believe but the first half of the monster 2024 show season is in the books. It was a demanding run that started with a drive from WI through Canada to...
by Jeff | Feb 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
Its show time again. This time it’s The Atlanta Fly Fishing Show. Last year was Granny’s and my first appearance here and it was excellent. I’ll be delivering two presentations a day. See my schedule below. Visit the booth and check out my famous coffee mugs,...
by Jeff | Jan 30, 2024 | 0 Comments
Pressing here in the last leg of the 2024 speaking tour. Since Denver Granny and I had a quick stopover in NH to say goodbye to family and regroup for the final gigs. Last Thursday we made the hectic drive NH to NJ through New York in into The Edison Fly Fishing...
by Jeff | Jan 24, 2024 | 0 Comments
Its been a lot of fun basing out of Wolfeboro, NH and hanging with mom since the holidays. But tomorrow Granny and I move on. The Ruby Van is loaded and ready to go. Our first stop is the Edison NJ Fly Fishing Show which runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We’ll be...
by Jeff | Jan 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
Granny and I left the Ruby Van back in NH and flew to The Denver Fly Fishing Show on Thursday. We were weighted down with four 69.5 lb. bags full of my famous coffee mugs and beer steins. We also had mugs in our carryon along with fish decals and my Warmwater...
by Jeff | Jan 18, 2024 | 2 Comments
Granny and I are headed for the Denver Fly Fishing Show today. It starts Friday and runs all weekend. This is a few weeks earlier than in past years and with the schedule change we’ll be flying there. This will limit stock of my famous fish coffee mugs, frosted...
by Jeff | Jan 8, 2024 | 2 Comments
Show season is officially under way. This weekend I spoke at The Marlboro Fly Fishing Show in MA. Granny and I arrived Thursday afternoon and after setting up the booth had a quick workout at the hotel gym then it was a short jaunt to our favorite Indian Restaurant...
by Jeff | Jan 3, 2024 | 0 Comments
What made this family holiday visit to New Hampshire doable was that my first speaking gig of the 2024 season kicks off at the Marlboro, MA Fly Fishing Show Friday January 5th. Granny and I drove the van out ten days ago from WI with all our show supplies so we could...
by Jeff | Dec 31, 2023 | 1 Comment
Been a nice visit up here in Wolfeboro, NH over the holidays with family. I hardly ever settle down for long anywhere and I almost never go a few weeks without my fly rod in hand. Granny and I have been hanging low, eating too much, watching lots of football,...
by Jeff | Dec 24, 2023 | 0 Comments
Happy Holidays everyone! Sorry to have gone dark since that last post from Borneo. Seems a few of you were worried about me and I appreciate your reaching out. (Photo not our house!) All is good. I walked in the door of our Hayward, WI house (with our new...
by Jeff | Dec 3, 2023 | 0 Comments
It didn’t rain last night here in the Borneo rainforest therefore we were able to fish a few hours today before starting our long journey home. Unfortunately, despite not raining, the Jeromai River was still flowing huge and the color red. Though we’ve pulled a few...
by Jeff | Dec 2, 2023 | 0 Comments
Both photos taken from nearly the same exact spot 15 hours apart. To help with the scale of things, if you look close at yesterday one of our boat man is at water’s edge. You can also use that branch dipping down into the water. A 25 foot rise! Disaster! ...
by Jeff | Dec 1, 2023 | 3 Comments
With only 2 ½ days left of a nine day fishing trip to the boonies of Borneo Indonesia, the pressure was on to catch my first red kaloi today. The peculiar species has eluded me and it’s not exactly a hop, skip and a jump to get over here. Our location is basically...
by Jeff | Nov 30, 2023 | 3 Comments
We left home ten days ago and today was our first full day of fishing. Hard to believe but true. There’s been a few hiccups to say the least on this journey so far. Most caused by horrific rains. But last night there was no rain and for the first time the river...
I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.
From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.
I pursue my love to paint fish, lecture on every aspect of fly fishing you can imagine and host a few trips to some of the most exotic places you can think of. My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. I presently have taken over 440 species from over 60 countries!
