by Jeff | Jul 13, 2014 | 0 Comments
July 11-13, 2014 If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile you know about Sammy Vigneri. Sammy is one of my best friends going all the way back to when we were working together in a fly shop in 1987. Sammy went to school for about twelve years after that and...
by Jeff | Jul 9, 2014 | 2 Comments
July 8 & 9, 2014 This summer has been a blur. In fact this year has been a blur. I’ve hardly done anything normal as far as fishing goes. Yea, there were a few days on the Henry’s Fork but normally I fish there ten times in June. It’s been bass, carp,...
by Jeff | Jul 7, 2014 | 1 Comment
I headed back to Blackfoot Reservoir to get Skip Brittenham into a few more carp while he’s here on his 4th of July visit. Fishing started slow but gradually they started to eat. When the first clouds filled the sky we only had one landed. Then rumbles of thunder...
by Jeff | Jul 1, 2014 | 1 Comment
We all have big fishing days from time to time. I don’t mean fish catching wise, but rather a long hard fought day on the water. You might get an early start and get home for dinner or you might leave after lunch and get home at dark. You rack up a good 8-10 hours...
by Jeff | Jun 30, 2014 | 3 Comments
My Henyr's Fork Marathon will be tomorrow July 1 meeting in the Last Chance lot around 7.
by Jeff | Jun 29, 2014 | 0 Comments
You might remember last year when a couple old customers/good friends from my fly shop times traded some fishing days with me. They said take us fly fishing for carp and we’ll take you to Bolivia for golden dorado. I really had to think hard on this but I decided to...
by Jeff | Jun 24, 2014 | 1 Comment
I’m sore from all the paddling I did today. Naturally it was windy as all get out and I did most of the day by myself – actually the perfect way to end a great trip on the home waters. The fishing wasn’t spectacular but I managed a couple nice smallies, one...
by Jeff | Jun 23, 2014 | 1 Comment
I absolutely wanted to get Granny an epic bass on the fly day like I enjoyed yesterday. Due to the fact that my canoe was still in Dads truck I decided to take her right back to the lake Don and I ended on yesterday with the smallmouth and largemouth bass. We...
by Jeff | Jun 22, 2014 | 1 Comment
We’ve yet to have decent bass fishing this trip. Sure we’ve picked up a few, but not like I’m used to here in my old stomping grounds on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. This morning it looked as though this trend was to continue. Again the wind was...
by Jeff | Jun 21, 2014 | 0 Comments
We picked up some hitchhikers on the way back from my parent’s 50th anniversary party yesterday – my nieces Sammy and Montana. My brother and his wife headed to Wisconsin for the weekend so Granny and I (and the rest of my family THANKFULLY) were babysitters. ...
by Jeff | Jun 20, 2014 | 0 Comments
The wind doesn’t seem to want to stop here on Lake Winnipesaukee this week. It was so bad already at 5 AM as well as colder than I could believe that I stayed in my sleeping bag until well after 6. Then I headed out and struggled in the canoe trying to maneuver...
by Jeff | Jun 19, 2014 | 0 Comments
Undoubtedly I’ve experienced the best of the best when it comes to fly fishing during my worldly adventures the last thirty years. But if I could turn back the clock to the late 70’s and early 80’s to relive the hot summer nights from my canoe in Back Bay under the...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2014 | 0 Comments
I couldn’t wait to guide Granny to my old smallmouth bass water this morning out from our family camp here on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. But all night long I could hear the west wind picking up speed. At 5 AM, the normally placid Wolfeboro Bay was covered...
by Jeff | Jun 17, 2014 | 3 Comments
Granny and I flew across country yesterday. We’re in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. My parent’s official day is on Friday but Granny and I thought we’d make a nice vacation out of it with some serious warmwater fly fishing on my...
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!
