by Jeff | Nov 10, 2023 | 0 Comments
I’m in flight now headed back home from my quick jaunt down to Atlanta to speak to the fly fishing club. It was a great trip. My show went awesome and I got to catch shoal bass yesterday and chase carp this morning. Friend and this week’s host, Austin Kane, got us...
by Jeff | Nov 9, 2023 | 0 Comments
I had a fantastic time fishing here in Georgia today. However, I was asked not to divulge any info or show much scenery by well-known Georgia angler, Fletcher Sams. Fletcher treated Austin Kane and I to the awesome experience. It’s a privilege when taken to cool...
by Jeff | Nov 8, 2023 | 0 Comments
It’s been a whirlwind since getting off the boat in Baja Friday. Saturday we drove seven hours south to Cerritos. Sunday I flew north up the Baja coast with a perfect view all the way to Los Angles. At 11:59 pm I boarded a redeye from LA to Minneapolis and arrived...
by Jeff | Nov 3, 2023 | 0 Comments
Early morning comes painfully when you picked up the crud on a fishing trip. Now both Sammy and I are feeling like crap. Nonetheless, today is our last day of fishing down here in Baja Mexico with pal Grant Hartman. There was no way we weren’t sucking it up and...
by Jeff | Nov 2, 2023 | 0 Comments
Sammy Vigneri and I go all the way back to 1987 as friends. Grant Hartman and I met down here in Baja in 1996 when I drove down here all the way from Jackson Hole. Grant had just started Baja Anglers and I was on a six week long trip camped on a beach up north of...
by Jeff | Nov 1, 2023 | 0 Comments
We planned an early start for our drive north this morning from Magdalena Bay but unfortunately Sammy caught the crud. Sam and I were kind of expecting it because Grant was hurting when we got here. Hopefully I’m not next. Luckily we only had a couple hours...
by Jeff | Oct 31, 2023 | 0 Comments
It was another early one out of Magdalena Bay in Baja on our quest for wahoo on the fly. It was cooler and fog rose from the estuary. Like yesterday I was with friends Sammy Vigneri and Grant Hartman and local fishing guide Roddy. Other than the fog the day...
by Jeff | Oct 30, 2023 | 2 Comments
When you know you’re headed out fly fishing on Magdalena Bay down here in Baja Sur, sunrise doesn’t come soon enough. Eventually it does though and at 6:30 am Sammy Vigneri, Grant Hartman and I were headed out with local fishing guide Roddy Garcia for the blue water...
by Jeff | Oct 29, 2023 | 2 Comments
Day two in Baja began with 5 am coffee at Sammy’s condo down here in Baja. Soon we were driving north for a few days of fishing on Magdalena Bay. But the Mag Bay fishing starts tomorrow so instead of pressing the five hour drive all the way there, instead we took...
by Jeff | Oct 28, 2023 | 0 Comments
I arrived in Baja yesterday and met up with my friends Sammy Vigneri and Grant Hartman. If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you know this is an annual trip with the fellas. Grant lives down here in Cabo and is a longtime friend going back to when we...
by Jeff | Oct 27, 2023 | 6 Comments
Today as I travel to Baja, I’m giving a shout out for a longtime friend and mentor, David Lambroughton. Dave has made a living in fly fishing through guiding, teaching, writing and his incredible photography. If you’re looking for your 2024 wall calendar, look no...
by Jeff | Oct 25, 2023 | 0 Comments
I was literally cleaning the boat and adjusting my Simms tackle bag from our Wisconsin season to get it ready for a trip to Baja this week. When I reeled in yesterday I was 99% sure I was done with local fishing. I had a few big musky flies laying out and Granny...
by Jeff | Oct 24, 2023 | 1 Comment
Fall keeps delivering decent temperatures for fishing. Although a cloudy one, today touched 60° and I hit the water with Bob and his son Gibb. We saw a few muskies but none would eat. The pike on the other hand, they always save the day and this afternoon was...
by Jeff | Oct 22, 2023 | 2 Comments
I’ve had several productive days at home preparing for what will be another busy winter show and speaking schedule. I also packed for some amazing trips coming up soon. I’m feeling less stressed and more caught on things than I have in a month. After a beautiful...
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!
