by Jeff | Mar 12, 2013 | 0 Comments
March 9 & 10, 2013 The Midwest Fly Fishing Expo in Michigan was fantastic. It was incredibly special to be working along side with Bob Clouser, Ed Engle and A.K. Best. These three guys have been mentors to me for more than 25 years. And a special thanks to Dan...
by Jeff | Mar 7, 2013 | 5 Comments
A solid week at home got me some rest. I was exhausted from two months of constant travel. Not only rest, but the homestretch included some great back county skiing, college basketball and spring training baseball. The only thing it didn’t include was fishing, but...
by Jeff | Feb 17, 2013 | 7 Comments
36 hours ago I was leaving camp in the Amazon. It was a long trip home. Most of the flight I spent editing photos. Photography conditions were tough but here’s a few that stood out. Mike Dawes with a beast! Yellow-spotted river turtles Arowana Heading out The...
by Jeff | Feb 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
February 15, 2013 The sun was gone and I was feeling like crap again to start the day. This trip has been a physical challenge. Nonetheless, fishing has been excellent and everyone is having a great time. And it should be noted that everyone has caught a peacock of...
by Jeff | Feb 14, 2013 | 1 Comment
February 14, 2013 I got some serious sleep last night. There was no messing around. And the end result of course is that I feel better than yesterday, in fact I feel like I’m alive again. I fished with longtime friend and absolute incredible angler, Mike Dawes. ...
by Jeff | Feb 13, 2013 | 0 Comments
February 13, 2013 Things started as another sunshiny day but I’m on the dreaded deathbed again. I didn’t seem possible that I could feel worse than two days ago but whatever sickness I have is like a plague. Nonetheless I managed to board the boat with Milkfish and...
by Jeff | Feb 12, 2013 | 1 Comment
February 12, 2013 Somehow I slept poorly again last night yet when I rolled out of bed at 5:30 the first thing I noticed was that the rain stopped and immediately felt better than yesterday. I popped our cabin door and to my delight saw patches of blue sky. Today...
by Jeff | Feb 11, 2013 | 5 Comments
February 11, 2013 There’s only one thing worse than being sick on an exotic fishing trip – being sick on an exotic fishing trip without proper medicine in pouring rain. I’m sick as a dog. My throat is toast. My voice is gone. My sinus is clogged and I ache all...
by Jeff | Feb 10, 2013 | 1 Comment
February 10, 2013 Peacock Bass of the Amazon are one the toughest freshwater fish on the planet. They hit a fly as hard as any fish you can imagine then for at least 15 seconds the tug can be terrifying. Seriously, a 5lber like this will rip line from you so fast...
by Jeff | Feb 9, 2013 | 4 Comments
February 9, 2013 You could say things never go quite as planned when in South America. After a fun afternoon and evening around the Tropical Hotel in Manaus, Brazil, at 11 PM last night I was awoken to a call that my hosted Amazon River trip was no longer flying to...
by Jeff | Feb 8, 2013 | 1 Comment
First was a long foggy five hour drive from Victor, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utah with an overnight at a hotel. Then yesterday morning we flew from SLC to Atlanta. From Atlantawe flew all night to Brasilia, Brazil. We had a short layover this morning then flew...
by Jeff | Feb 6, 2013 | 1 Comment
I leave to host my annual Amazon River trip today. This year is different in that I’m running the adventure through the well known Yellow Dog Fly Fishing Adventures of Bozeman, Montana. Yellow Dog handles everything for me and gives the trip a much more professional...
by Jeff | Feb 3, 2013 | 0 Comments
What a fun weekend in the two Kansas Cities conducting a full day fly fishing seminar for the folks from Heart of America Fly Fishers. We covered all from my favorite PowerPoint Shows ranging from Yellowstone to Warmwater Fishing and then fly casting and a knot...
by Jeff | Jan 31, 2013 | 4 Comments
January 2013 will go down as my busiest ever with 17 talks starting in Denver and ending last night on my home turf right here in Teton Valley for Teton Valley Trout Unlimited. We had a great night and I thanks all that attended. Tomorrow I head for Kansas City,...
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!
