by Jeff | Jun 22, 2012 | 3 Comments
June 21, 2012 Roosterfishing off the beach down here in Baja is incredible. I love the hunt. I love the difficulty. I love everything about chasing this exotic looking saltwater fish. But nothing excites me more than tossing flies over coral heads and rocks...
by Jeff | Jun 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
Now that Sammy and I both have big roosters for the week we have very little pressure on us. Grant Hartman drove us a long way today to some unknown beach as kind of an exploratory day. The dirt tracks were beyond rough and the roadsides showed just how hostile this...
by Jeff | Jun 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
With my hawg rooster behind me I stayed low today in hopes Sammy would get his. I didn’t want to do anything to lessen his opportunity. At 2 PM after a very slow windy morning on the beach, Sammy got his fly right in front of a dandy. 30 minutes later, I shot this...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
I’ve been coming to Baja for almost twenty years now. I love to catch all kinds of cool fish, but the main target is generally roosterfish. I take roosterfishing a step further and go for my roosters off the beach – sight casting only. It took me eleven days to catch...
by Jeff | Jun 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Well known guide Grant Hartman of Baja Anglers picked up Sammy Vigneri and me at the Los Cabos airport in Baja Mexico amongst heavy security this afternoon. The G20 meetings are taking place here. President Obama and other leaders from all over the world have come to...
by Jeff | Jun 17, 2012 | 0 Comments
I left home around 7 AM in order to get a couple hours of fishing in on the Henry’s Fork before I did my presentation at Henry’s Fork Day. When I arrived the weather was calm and warm and I walked about a mile into the Harriman Ranch before spotting two quality...
by Jeff | Jun 15, 2012 | 2 Comments
Thursday June 14, 2012 I arrived at Last Chance on the Henry's Fork at 4 PM and before 4:30 I caught this awesome rainbow on a Pale Morning Dun. It’s not easy to take a pic of a huge fish by yourself but you can see he was fantastic. Thursday’s fish was on the...
by Jeff | Jun 14, 2012 | 4 Comments
I’ve set a borderline unfeasible challenge for myself this week of catching one big fish on the Last Chance section of the Henry’s Fork every day this week that I’m there. That’s Tuesday through Saturday on one of the most exciting yet difficult dry fly fishing...
by Jeff | Jun 11, 2012 | 0 Comments
Heading for the Henry's Fork in a few minutes. I'll be there all day tomorrow. Most of Wed. Only the evening on Thur. Only the morning on Friday. And for a very short time on Saturday - Henry's Fork Day. However, even on the short days my goal is to handle a big...
by Jeff | Jun 8, 2012 | 0 Comments
June 7 & 8, 2012 Trey and Shelby Scharp (Trey is one of my partners of the Carp Classic) manage one of the coolest places in Jackson, Wyoming– The Flat Creek Ranch. This historic dude ranch is located on Flat Lake, the headwaters of the famous Snake River...
by Jeff | Jun 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
The Explorer shook like crazy all night from strong wind while the rain changed over to a crappy garbage type snow and slush. After a late night at the Trout Hunter Bar and Grill catching up with old friends, this weather you see was not easy to wake up to. However,...
by Jeff | Jun 2, 2012 | 0 Comments
May 30, 2012 After a long day of travelling from New Hampshire I rolled home into Victor, Idaho late last night. Granny was anxiously waiting, not only because I’ve been gone more than a week, but tomorrow is the annual Bass on the Fly Tourney at Ririe Reservoir in...
by Jeff | May 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
May 28, 2012 I must admit, I tiptoed around the camp at 4:50 AM this morning. There were three anglers hoping to join me for smallmouth fishing. If any of them woke up they’d of gone. But I kind of wanted to go solo. This was my last morning of smallmouth bass...
by Jeff | May 28, 2012 | 1 Comment
May 27, 2012 Once again I hoped to get down to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire’s Back Bay area fishing early this morning with one of my cousins, particularly my cousin Jon. However, once again Jon and the rest all opted to sleep in. So my brother-in-law Don and I set...
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!
