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...
by Jeff | Mar 13, 2024 | 2 Comments
I’m stoked to be back speaking at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo in St. Paul, MN this week – Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-17. I’ll be sharing a booth with George Daniel and Granny will be there with my books and showing off my famous fish coffee mugs and...
by Jeff | Mar 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
You may have noticed over the winter that my website has gone through some changes. That’s because my site is so big, it literally outgrew the original format. I was warned back in November that functions were beginning to fail. This is my livelihood, so in a...
by Jeff | Mar 5, 2024 | 3 Comments
Is preparing for fishing, fishing? Well, if you haven’t been fishing recently but you’ve been fixing for some big trips, then in a sense, yes. And that’s exactly me lately. I have a few consecutive weeks home for the first time since August. It’s too warm to ice...
by Jeff | Feb 18, 2024 | 1 Comment
We’ll call it a wrap down here at Sea Island, Georgia. Chip and I just got back from a three hour morning fishing session. It was freezing cold and windy. 53° with a north wind to add to an already chilly day – not fun. And did I mention drizzle? When we...
by Jeff | Feb 17, 2024 | 2 Comments
First and foremost, the host of this great trip to Sea Island Resort GA, friend George Hillenbrand, made it home in one piece yesterday after his fall and he’s comfortably and happily at home in Jupiter, FL. We sent him some fish pics from yesterday and he was...
by Jeff | Feb 16, 2024 | 1 Comment
Early to bed last night early to rise today. This morning George stayed back at the cottage and sent us to the shooting range here at the Sea Island Resort (one more of “us” arrived today, Chip Shealy). I once hunted birds. I’m talking 30 plus years ago. Although...
by Jeff | Feb 15, 2024 | 1 Comment
A delicious homemade breakfast by Granny was our Valentines Day treat yesterday. Then at noon I headed for the Duluth Airport and made my way to Jacksonville, FL. Early this morning I caught up with my friend John McGraw and we took his rental an hour north on to...
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!
