by Jeff | Aug 11, 2017 | 1 Comment
As always, it’s hard to leave Victor in the heart of summer. The yard is cozy. I’ve been growing a hummingbird flower garden for years and it’s finally stunning and I have hummers buzzing around like mad. We also have two bird houses with clutches of tree swallows...
by Jeff | Jul 29, 2017 | 0 Comments
It was a cold night but it didn’t snow. We woke up to the same drizzle we went to bed with. It didn’t look like a fun day to go fishing in northern Canada but the wind had settled at least enough we could fish from the boats. High tide was at 2 PM. This...
by Jeff | Jul 28, 2017 | 0 Comments
Boat fishing wasn’t meant to be today. First of all, high tide wasn’t until midafternoon meaning we couldn’t launch the boats until 11 AM. And we’d need to be back by 3 PM before the tide got too low to beach the boats. Then we had a problem with Burts boat. The...
by Jeff | Jul 27, 2017 | 0 Comments
It cooled down overnight. Then at around 4 AM the rain started. I’ve been getting up before 7 each day but the rain kept me zipped up in my mummy bag on my top bunk dreaming of Arctic char. The other reason to stay in bed was that the first high tide of the...
by Jeff | Jul 26, 2017 | 0 Comments
The first high tide of the day wasn’t until 11 AM which meant we couldn’t get the boats in the water until 9 AM. Then there was a debate as to whether or not we could stay out all day until the next high tide. Days are getting shorter in the evening by about ten...
by Jeff | Jul 26, 2017 | 0 Comments
If you read my post from July 22 than you know I am in the boonies of northern Canada fly fishing for Arctic char around Ungava Bay at Inukshuk Lodge. I have no internet until July 31 so the day by day accounts will not start posting until then. I can however...
by Jeff | Jul 25, 2017 | 0 Comments
Paul Ostiguy and his staffs most difficult hurdle at Inukshuk Lodge is dealing with tides. Ungava Bay is the Atlantic Ocean and in this particular location the variation from low tide to high tide is one of the largest in the world. Its two days after the new moon...
by Jeff | Jul 24, 2017 | 4 Comments
Today’s blog tells it like it is and my blog always will. If you don’t like the sight of a dead animal don’t read or look any further. Skip today and tune in tomorrow. Kuujjuaq is a nice little village up the top of Quebec in Nunavik however one night there...
by Jeff | Jul 23, 2017 | 0 Comments
Let’s just say that travel to the coolest fishing places on earth can cause a headache or two at times. Me and my new friends, all on our way to Inukshuk Lodge, were officially stranded overnight in Kuujjuaq, Quebec because the weather wasn’t safe to fly our Twin...
by Jeff | Jul 23, 2017 | 0 Comments
It didn’t matter that I was on Idaho time. I slept lightly in my Montreal Airport hotel and got out of bed at 5:40 AM well before my wakeup call. I took one last look at email and set my Fantasy Baseball team for the week then broke down shop. I was as excited for...
by Jeff | Jul 22, 2017 | 0 Comments
I’m on my way to Montreal today. Tomorrow I’ll fly up to Kuujjuac, QC Canada. Just in case you don’t know where this is (ha!) this is a town in Nunavik on Ungava Bay. If you still need help, look at a map of Quebec and go all the way to the top. Here is the home...
by Jeff | Jul 21, 2017 | 1 Comment
July 18-19, 2017 I relish all my travels to some of the greatest fishing destinations on the planet but what I love the most is my annual 35 mile two day float on the Nunya on hot summer days with Granny. The Yeti is full of delicious food and cold beer. The...
by Jeff | Jul 12, 2017 | 2 Comments
There’s no sense in wasting time in this life. Especially summer time in Idaho. I got home from the Bahamas at 1 AM this morning and took a four hour nap. Granny and I had coffee on the back porch a little before 6 AM then I unpacked and cleaned the salt off some...
by Jeff | Jul 10, 2017 | 1 Comment
East End Lodge is a beautiful place on the far eastern corner of Grand Bahama. This is the more secluded part of the island a good hour from the bustling city of Freeport. Wil’s and my comfortable room was a mere 100-feet from the dock where we boarded our...
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!
