by Jeff | Jul 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
I met Dave Gellatly at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Show in Minneapolis back in March. I saw a guy towing a drift boat with Wisconsin plates pull into the parking lot. I went right over and it turns out Dave is from my old stomping grounds of Ashland right on...
by Jeff | Jul 20, 2024 | 3 Comments
Bob and I rarely fish on weekends because no doubt, here in Wisconsin the waterways are for sure at their busiest. But suddenly the days of summer are passing rapidly. Too rapidly. We decided to take a long haul down numerous dusty roads to a river where the...
by Jeff | Jul 19, 2024 | 2 Comments
Bob and I planned on doing something big today but unfortunately truck trouble for Bob grounded us. Well, not exactly grounded because Bob lives on a small lake. Instead of not fishing, I zipped over his place around 8 AM and we launched his lake boat with my...
by Jeff | Jul 17, 2024 | 1 Comment
Wow. I actually went four straight days without fishing. It was no wonder I was driving Granny crazy around the house yesterday to get her stuff together so we could get going. Finally, around 6:30 PM we began the winding drive to one of my favorite fisheries in...
by Jeff | Jul 12, 2024 | 1 Comment
As we took our first two sips of coffee Granny and I and gazed around the neighborhood. It was only 6:15 AM. The temperature was already 73° and not an ounce of wind. It was too hard to resist a trip to our nearby lake. The same lake we fished on the 4th of July. ...
by Jeff | Jul 10, 2024 | 0 Comments
My lady and I hit the road at a reasonable time this morning. It was just after 6. It was about an hour drive then we dropped our blue boat down a muddy slot on absolutely gorgeous Wisconsin river. Today’s target, muskellunge. My shoulder...
by Jeff | Jul 9, 2024 | 0 Comments
Some days there just isn’t much to write about. Today with Josh and Tanner was that day. It didn’t matter that we left the house at 6 AM and weren’t home until 6:30 PM. It didn’t matter that we floated eight river miles and had two flies in the water the entire...
by Jeff | Jul 7, 2024 | 3 Comments
Boy, it’s been hard to get my man Howie (Matt Norton) on the water this summer. Howie has more company visit than anyone I know. And when he doesn’t, he’s often busy getting the Norton estate ready for the next round of guests. I’ve been razing Howie, but not...
by Jeff | Jul 5, 2024 | 0 Comments
Sometimes you simply can’t divulge much. Or don’t want to because you found something really special. While we didn’t catch much, only two tiny smallies to be exact, Granny and I had a wonderful adventure in the drift boat the included a lake, a river, another lake...
by Jeff | Jul 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
We always get up early on the 4th of July. It’s my favorite holiday of the year. Today was no different and before we knew it Granny and I were down to our last sip of coffee. We looked at each other like, what now? There are no events until late afternoon. ...
by Jeff | Jul 3, 2024 | 0 Comments
River fishing so far this year has been a task. Yeah, the Brule was a blast two nights ago. What I’m referring to is chasing warmwater species. My friends and I have nailed some nice smallmouth bass and the occasional toothy one (walleye included) but we have not...
by Jeff | Jul 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
The great fishing isn’t the only fun and refreshing part of our big move from Idaho to Wisconsin two years ago, it’s been the reacquaintance with old friends and the making new friends. I have a lot of buddies to fish with. Today, Tim Nolde treated me to a late...
by Jeff | Jun 26, 2024 | 1 Comment
I cherish the longest days of the year and don’t waste a minute of them. I was checking my email at 4:20 AM as the birds were going off and daylight was bringing northern Wisconsin to life. I love it. My main fishing buddy Bob Butler...
by Jeff | Jun 25, 2024 | 2 Comments
We know I have fast hands when it comes to catching turtles, but now Granny? Yes! And with a nice two-hander sized painted turtle! Today it was me behind the oars on a lake here in Wisconsin. It’s a big lake with few places for turtles but right after Granny...
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!
