by Jeff | Mar 28, 2018 | 0 Comments
Our scouting mission for the upcoming World Masters Fly Fishing Championships that takes place April 24-29 didn’t go quite as Jerry Arnold and I planned. We intended to fish, turn a few rocks, walk beats and get an idea exactly how to catch these finicky wild brown...
by Jeff | Mar 27, 2018 | 0 Comments
It’s official. Despite the rivers looking better than they have the past two days, there will be no fishing on this fishing trip. The scouting of the waters of Asturias Spain for the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships that takes place April 23-29 will be...
by Jeff | Mar 26, 2018 | 2 Comments
Each year the first Atlantic salmon caught from the Sella River in Ribadesella, Spain is called the el campanu and has been celebrated for centuries. These days this one salmon sells for over €1000 Euros and when it hits a plate in a well-known restaurant the meal...
by Jeff | Mar 25, 2018 | 0 Comments
I’m in the Asturias region in Northern Spain on a reconnaissance mission for the USA Fly Fishing Masters Team. The actual competition takes place here April 23-28th. I’ll be headed home Thursday then right back here in three weeks. The Masters Team is...
by Jeff | Mar 24, 2018 | 0 Comments
Jerry Arnold and I met in Madrid, Spain late this afternoon. My flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was delayed so I missed connection Amsterdam to Madrid. This put us in the rental car four hours later than expected. The delay hurt us because we had a...
by Jeff | Mar 23, 2018 | 0 Comments
I’m putting my feet up today, tonight and tomorrow morning. That’s because I have 24 hours of flight travel ahead of me starting in a few minutes. Movies, red wine and sleep. I’m going to enjoy all three and end up in Madrid, Spain. There I’ll meet friend...
by Jeff | Mar 19, 2018 | 1 Comment
It was a quick turn around from Mexico to Alberta, Canada. I flew home from Baja and unpacked my saltwater gear and cleaned it up. Then packed up my seminar goods for an extended weekend of speaking that started Thursday night in Great Falls, Montana. Friday it was...
by Jeff | Mar 10, 2018 | 0 Comments
Grant Hartman and I had to twist Sammy’s arm a little to fish a few hours before our long drive back to Cabo so we can fly home tomorrow. I’ve lucked into a few nice fish the last two days but Sam hasn’t. It turns out he’s glad we did. We hit another rocky...
by Jeff | Mar 9, 2018 | 0 Comments
You may remember over the years that Sammy has a place in Baja which is one of the reasons I’m down here so much. He recently got a nice truck that he is now keeping here. He got it for accessing remote areas for fishing and today was its maiden voyage. Sammy...
by Jeff | Mar 8, 2018 | 0 Comments
A number of years ago Grant Hartman took Sammy and I up the Pacific side of Baja in search of Pacific snook. While the snook weren’t around we found many other fun species to catch including some Pacific cubera snapper (dog) around a rocky point. It was late that...
by Jeff | Mar 7, 2018 | 1 Comment
Mornings are cool here on the Pacific side of Baja in March. It’s also foggy until the sun comes up. Regardless, myself, Sammy, Grant and our guide Jose left early in order to make the approximately 15-mile ride into the Pacific for a chance at yellowfin tuna on the...
by Jeff | Mar 6, 2018 | 2 Comments
If there’s one new fish species I hoped to add to my list this week down here in Baja it’s one of the Pacific snook. Here they have the black snook and the white. Somehow both have eluded me despite numerous trips since 1996. But today, I was able to knock off the...
by Jeff | Mar 5, 2018 | 1 Comment
California tour - Pyramid Lake Nevada - Home Sweet Home. Sounds awesome and easy. It wasn’t. My 750-mile drive from Pyramid Lake to Victor, Idaho was a slippery snowy Interstate 80 hell. Made it in 12 hours though. Once home I caught up on bills, shoveling,...
by Jeff | Mar 1, 2018 | 1 Comment
When I began working in the fly shop in Jackson Hole, WY in 1987, we had VHS tapes playing while customers roamed. One tape was of Larry Shoenborn’s TV show, Fishing the West. Larry was catching Lahontan cutthroat from a ladder in Nevada on Pyramid Lake. The once...
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!
