An Education Fishing the Sterkfontein Dam

A horrible front has moved in.  The strength of the wind is the same as yesterday yet it’s done a complete about face.  Our temperature has dropped from an enjoyable 75° to a miserable 55° so with the wind it’s no less than horrifically cold.  Yet we’re at the...

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Fly Fishing Sterkfontein Dam

The Clarens Inn roosters had us up before 5 AM today.  Some people get worked up over such but I grew up raising Rhode Island Reds and I wish I had some roosters back home in Victor.  The early start had us ready to rock to begin the last chapter of this southern...

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Fishing in Lesotho with Tourette Comes to an End

I packed the rods last night so there would be no 5 AM temptation to fish the camp pool.  Instead me, Granny and the Tourette fishing guides sipped coffee and reminisced about our great four days all while I left my mark at the Makhangoa Community Fishing Camp.  I...

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Monster Trout in Africa

Today was our last fishing day in Lesotho and to say it went well is an understatement.  I awoke at 4 like most days here in Africa.  I told Granny I was making us coffee and then going down to the camp pool to catch the huge rainbow I missed yesterday.  She got up...

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Fly Fishing in Lesotho

It will be difficult to return home in ten days to deal with winter and even harder to deal with the shortest days of the year.  I can’t stand short days.  Down here in Lesotho it gets light at 4 AM and I’m halfway through my coffee by 5.  And just like the last two...

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My First Trout in Africa

We awoke to a much nicer day than yesterday.  It was freezing cold but the clouds were gone and I could see right away the river came down a few inches.  I got up at 5 and slammed my coffee, grabbed my 4-weight LS and went back down to the camp pool.  I had a meeting...

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Makhangoa Community Camp – Tourette Fishing

It was gorgeous around the beehive this morning on the premises of Clarens Inn Backpackers.  Granny and I have been up at crack a dawn which is around 5 every day this trip and we sipped coffee till 7.  Then friends Mark Murray and Stu fired up the Land Cruiser and we...

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Travel for Lesotho Begins

What a fine time it’s been so far here in South Africa!  I can’t thank Craig Smith and Edward Truter enough for the incredible fun Granny and I have had with the fishing, wildlife and sightseeing so far.  But today we began the journey we came for – fly fishing in the...

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Fly Fishing the Port Elizabeth Estuary of South Africa

Anthony and Ed took Granny and I out on the Port Elizabeth estuary today.  The Port Elizabeth estuary is the 2nd richest in all of South Africa.  Our plan of attack was to hit all the spotted grunter hot spots as possible in hopes to fool one of them into eating a...

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Wild Horses, Banded Tilapia and Puff Adders

It was another gorgeous morning up on the Gourits River here in South Africa.  Most of us were a little gruff however from a poor night sleep.  We had a herd of horses freak out several times during the night on the edge of camp.  Just like they won’t jump a fence,...

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Fly Fishing for Bass in South Africa

The sounds around camp here on the Gourits River in South Africa last night put me in a deep sleep.  Granny and I were serenaded by frogs, birds, jackals and more all night long.  I woke up bright at 5 AM and made some instant coffee and kicked back and worked on the...

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Fly Fishing the Gourits River of South Africa

Our South African adventure isn’t a week old yet and we’ve done lots.  We have our travel groove on thanks to Craig and Coreta Smith.  They’ve shown us a beautiful piece of the Garden Route along the coast of South Africa.  But today Craig and Coreta drove us north...

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Another Great Day Fly Fishing the Salt in South Africa

We said bye to Knysna, South Africa early this morning and traveled with Craig and Coreta west over an hour to visit their friends Chris and Teresa.  Their friends have a house on top a cliff overlooking the ocean about a half hour past the famous Mossel Bay.  Their...

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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!

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