by Jeff | Feb 22, 2018 | 0 Comments
I’ll make this blog quick being my turn around from Indianapolis to leaving for California was less than 48 hours. Furthermore, I’m driving through this leg of the tour because this trip entails speaking tonight at Tracy Fly Fishers presenting, “Four Seasons of the...
by Jeff | Feb 19, 2018 | 0 Comments
Most of the events that I deliver my presentations at are specifically fly fishing shows and clubs. But annually I speak at the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Expo. Its massive exposition with everything from boats and RV’s to hunting and fishing. Though...
by Jeff | Feb 16, 2018 | 0 Comments
My show break is over and today I’m on the way to the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Show. This is not one of the “Fly Fishing Shows” I usually do. This one has some fly fishing stores and manufacturers but is a more standard Sport Show with boats, trucks,...
by Jeff | Feb 11, 2018 | 0 Comments
For years I’ve been the only one to get up and ice fish on Sunday on this annual Wisconsin ice fishing trip. I get out with the guides till around noon then we meet the others at the Pea Patch Bar for burgers and hours of pool shooting followed by dice games at...
by Jeff | Feb 10, 2018 | 0 Comments
Our annual ice fishing trip to the Great Northwood’s of Wisconsin has two other purposes beyond the fishing. Have a good time and eat well. Our incredible host George Hillenbrand treats us to the best of the best when it comes to food. Regardless of the feast last...
by Jeff | Feb 9, 2018 | 0 Comments
Friends and I woke up to the Great Northwoods of Wisconsin this morning to begin our annual three days of ice fishing. The thermometer read an invigorating -17 below zero. Back in my college days up in Ashland, Wisconsin, -30 hardly made me flinch. These days I’m...
by Jeff | Feb 8, 2018 | 0 Comments
Several friends laugh at me for going to Wisconsin every February for a few days of ice fishing, but honestly, this is one of my favorite trips of the year. I’m certain there’s a few of you readers scratching your head as well thinking, “This guy fly fishes all over...
by Jeff | Feb 6, 2018 | 0 Comments
I’m not home often these days. It’s weird. It wasn’t planned this way. It just sort of happened – a career in fly fishing that includes an annual show/speaking tour then months of fishing and travel. I wouldn’t trade it for anything but at times I miss my home in...
by Jeff | Jan 31, 2018 | 2 Comments
The hardcore show month of January is in the books. I’m not a winter guy these days so I love the grueling schedule because it makes quick work of the cold dark days. They fly by. This past weekend was the first ever Edison New Jersey Fly Fishing Show. ...
by Jeff | Jan 24, 2018 | 0 Comments
The famous Somerset New Jersey Fly Fishing Show is not in Somerset this year. It’s a few towns over in Edison. I’ve not seen the new venue hands on but I’ve seen the booth layouts and a mapping of the seminar rooms and casting ponds and this new location should not...
by Jeff | Jan 23, 2018 | 0 Comments
The Marlboro Fly Fishing Show was another great one but shows in three different cities three weekends in a row calls for a little R & R. Granny and I are chilling out in New Hampshire for a few days and today included a trip to the Wolfeboro Tavern. It was...
by Jeff | Jan 18, 2018 | 0 Comments
I’m a third of the way through what I call the, “100 Days of Insanity”. From around December 1 till April 1 I work almost every day focusing on my shows and speaking tour. Its constant travel with long drives, planes and hotels to deliver fly fishing seminars,...
by Jeff | Jan 15, 2018 | 1 Comment
My last six fishing days of 2017 ended in skunks and yesterday, the first day of 2018, started with a skunk. Today I had to get on track. Steve Berry, Gentry Smith and I headed to some urban Phoenix ponds where we always catch fish. The last time I fished...
by Jeff | Jan 13, 2018 | 0 Comments
When I come to Phoenix to do fly fishing presentations I always add a couple days for some urban fly fishing. Phoenix has an elaborate canal system through the city and its neighboring suburbs along with manmade lakes and ponds. Each and every one of these waters...
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!
