by Jeff | Apr 18, 2024 | 4 Comments
It’s a national holiday in Bhutan today, the Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. Enjoy the read for those interested. It’s pretty cool. The day is of importance to our Bhutanese Himalayan Flyfishing staff and we were asked a long time ago not to fish...
by Jeff | Apr 17, 2024 | 1 Comment
It wasn’t a good night sleep for me. About midnight the storms started. While some sleep through the rumbles of thunder and pattering of rain, it wakes me. I lay there watching the flickers of lightening. I also worry about the river blowing out and becoming...
by Jeff | Apr 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
As we left last nights campfire the giant raindrops were starting. Five minutes after hitting the bed, the drops turned to downpour. Soon the heavy patter on my tent was joined by flashes of lightening. Thunderstorms hammered away on Bhutan’s Himalayan Foothills on...
by Jeff | Apr 15, 2024 | 5 Comments
The goal of this expedition is to show Bhutan as a legitimate off-the-grid fishery through photos and film so it can soon be available through Yellow Dog Flyfishing to all physically able and adventurous fly fishers. As a blessed angler that has seen most...
by Jeff | Apr 14, 2024 | 5 Comments
Taking in the phenomenal sites of Bhutan have been a true treat the last two days. Our Yellow Dog Flyfishing (YD) film crew joined with Bryant Dunn and his Himalayan Flyfishing Adventure team has had a blast. But today we honed our focus to our main goal – catch...
by Jeff | Apr 13, 2024 | 3 Comments
We began our day in Thimphu, Bhutan with sunrise on the tallest sitting Buddha in the world, (Dordenma) at Kuenselphodrang. This amazing Buddha sits along the mountain side overlooking the capital city. When I was here in 2014 this amazing Buddha was under...
by Jeff | Apr 12, 2024 | 0 Comments
I woke up spry today considering here in Bhutan is a 13 hour time difference from Wisconsin. The key to killing jetlag is to pretend you’re not tired and go for it. Jim Klug, Chris Patterson and I ignored being tired in Bangkok a couple days ago and yesterday upon...
by Jeff | Apr 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
The worlds most dangerous commercial flight on earth went boringly smooth today from Bangkok, Thailand to Paro, Bhutan. The most exciting part of our early departing 4 hour 17 minute flight was our stopover. I said it would be Daka India yesterday. I was incorrect,...
by Jeff | Apr 10, 2024 | 4 Comments
Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures founder Jim Klug, master cinemaphotographer Chris Patterson and I are more than half way to the Himalayan Mountains of Bhutan enjoying about a 36 hour layover in Bangkok. Jim and I arrived late last night. Chris came in early this...
by Jeff | Apr 8, 2024 | 1 Comment
I’m chilling out here at the Delta Lounge in Minneapolis on a long but relaxing layover before on to Seoul, Korea then to Bangkok for a couple days. Soon Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures founder Jim Klug and master cinemaphotographer Chris Patterson will be here...
by Jeff | Apr 3, 2024 | 0 Comments
Today wasn’t exactly one you wake up and want to go fishing. It was one of those sloppy spring Tuesdays with wet snow falling hard yet barely accumulating. What amassed turned to dicey road-coating slush. To add to the loveliness, we had sideswiping wind gust up to...
by Jeff | Mar 31, 2024 | 1 Comment
I finished up the 2024 “Winter” fly fishing speaking tour in Canada earlier this week. While most the season has been easy traveling gig to gig, the snow finally caught up with me. I was hindered by heavy snow in Lethbridge, Alberta and dealt with the white stuff...
by Jeff | Mar 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
The final whirlwind of my 2024 speaking tour is off to a good start. I kicked it in to gear in Great Falls, MT last night for Missouri River Flyfishers delivering “Trout Bumming the Lakes of Yellowstone”. This was at least my third time speaking to the club – maybe...
by Jeff | Mar 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
It was a pleasure to be back in Minnesota at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo this past weekend. I shared headliner speaking duties with friend and well-known author and angler, George Daniel. We both presented numerous presentations over three days and all were...
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!
