by Jeff | Jul 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
I had no idea that the Henry’s Fork Marathon would be my last fishing day of June. However, when the heat rolled in here Thursday and after looking at my list of “Artwork to be done” I turned on the TV and watched baseball while painting and drawing on Cliff Fly...
by Jeff | Jun 27, 2013 | 3 Comments
June 25, 2013 My annual Henry’s Fork Marathon took place today. Granny and I and friends left the Last Chance parking lot before 8 AM and fished our way through the Harriman Ranch all the way to the Osborne Bridge and back. This is a distance of about eight...
by Jeff | Jun 23, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 21, 2013 I shouldn’t have fished today. I’m behind on artwork, writing projects, one blog, yard work and etc. Not to mention I haven’t recouped from five months of traveling for work and fishing. But when Tom Montgomery tells me things are happening on the...
by Jeff | Jun 22, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 19, 2013 How hard is it to catch a 12” smallmouth bass on Ririe Reservoir in Idaho? Evidently very very very hard! Today was our annual Bass on a Fly Tourney and catching five qualifying 12” bass was extremely difficult. In fact, not one of the eighteen teams...
by Jeff | Jun 19, 2013 | 0 Comments
June 18, 2013 Granny and I drove to the Henry’s Fork last night and camped in the gravel pits below Osborne Bridge. We grilled some dogs and tipped some beers with some of our older friends and caught up on some bad news. One of the group, he was at the parking lot...
by Jeff | Jun 17, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 14 & 15 Opening days are becoming a thing of the past. With catch and release, many fishing areas worldwide have switched to year round fishing. There’s no doubt its nice to fish whenever you want, but I miss an old fashion opening day. ...
by Jeff | Jun 13, 2013 | 3 Comments
Fly fishing in Europe 2013 will go down as a “Monsoon Currier” classic. Vladi and I fought through at least some heavy rain EVERY day of the trip and more than half the adventure we had rain all day. Luckily, despite the tormenting weather, the goals were met. First...
by Jeff | Jun 13, 2013 | 0 Comments
June 8 & 9, 2013 We fished ourselves into the ground these last two days. I’ll group them together so I can get some rest. June 8 Yesterday we fished a new river in Slovenia named the Nadiža. A stunningly beautiful river but very few fish. ...
by Jeff | Jun 11, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 7, 2013 Rain, rain and more rain today. We hung around the Pri Jazbecu till 11 then went to the Idrijca River and threw on the waders and permanently wet rain jackets. Vladi’s foot is almost better so he was ready to fish. We went right to where we...
by Jeff | Jun 10, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 6, 2013 I’ve been fishing my butt off for a week. Yesterday I walked miles. When Vladi suggested a day of cruising into Italy instead of fishing so he could rest his foot, I was all over the idea. I pictured a great meal and some killer red wine at some...
by Jeff | Jun 9, 2013 | 2 Comments
June 5, 2013 I thought Vladi was tossing and turning at 4 AM this morning because of the cuckoo bird we have outside our room. But it wasn’t the crazy bird, it was Vladi’s foot. Apparently he likes fishing like most of us and ignored his pain yesterday only...
by Jeff | Jun 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
June 4, 2013 An unusual start to a day, at 7 AM sharp we drove Vladi’s car ON to a train at the Slovenian train station of Most Na Soči. Yes, I, Vladi (his foot feels much better) and his car drove up a platform and on a flatbed train car and at 7:30 the train...
by Jeff | Jun 7, 2013 | 1 Comment
June 3, 2013 Vladi woke up to a terrible blister on his foot from his wading shoes. We definitely walked our butts off yesterday on the Kupa River in Croatia. Unfortunately the blister was so bad he could hardly walk and putting his wading shoe on was impossible. ...
by Jeff | Jun 6, 2013 | 2 Comments
June 2, 2013 It’s almost twenty-five years to the day that the former Yugoslavia broke up into smaller countries. Slovenia, where Vladi and I have been fishing these first three days, is the furthest north and west. Just south and east is Croatia. There are a...
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!
