by Jeff | Mar 20, 2017 | 2 Comments
Morning came early today in the Wisconsin Driftless Area with my college friends. Most of us haven’t seen each other since my 50th on the Henry’s Fork back in 2015 so we got a little excited last night. So excited we stayed up until 4 AM playing cards and catching...
by Jeff | Mar 19, 2017 | 0 Comments
Yesterday the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo in St Paul, Minnesota wrapped up the winter show season for me. 2017 will go down as one of the busiest. I had a terrific time entertaining and visiting with the folks that come to the shows to learn but also all the...
by Jeff | Mar 15, 2017 | 0 Comments
This weekend I speak at my last Fly Fishing Show of the season. Really? Winter zipped by that fast? Indeed it did and I’m ending with a bang with my first ever appearance at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota March 17-19. I’ve known of...
by Jeff | Mar 13, 2017 | 2 Comments
When I go quiet I’m either on a foreign country expedition or focused on a writing or art project while home for the first time in a while. Well, this time it’s the latter which meant a pleasurable week at home with the Sharpies and pastels and some amusing pet deer!...
by Jeff | Mar 1, 2017 | 2 Comments
I’m deep into the California speaking tour. I spoke to Tracy Fly Fishers last week then at the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show over the weekend. Both were excellent with high attendance for the show and all my presentations. Here’s a shot of me teaching the Double Haul...
by Jeff | Feb 22, 2017 | 0 Comments
No rest for the wicked. I barely get in the door at home on Mondays before leaving again on Wednesdays. I like it though because I love my job. While tomorrow night some of my California friends will catch my “Warmwater Fly Fishing” presentation at Tracy Fly...
by Jeff | Feb 20, 2017 | 0 Comments
Exhausted would be an understatement as I make my way home from Indianapolis this morning. But you know I love it. I just got done speaking and sketching on fly boxes for three days at the Indianapolis Boat, Travel and Sport Show. The show was fantastic and I had a...
by Jeff | Feb 16, 2017 | 0 Comments
Here we go again! It’s time for the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Show. I did this show last winter and thoroughly enjoyed. If you’re in the area swing by and catch one of my presentations! Here are my seminar times for this weekend. Click on the...
by Jeff | Feb 12, 2017 | 0 Comments
Wind shook the Chippewa Retreat Lodge starting in the wee hours. By the time I got up to meet the guys for ice fishing, everyone but two of the guides, Joe and James, bagged the idea of fishing. I layered up and off we went. We didn’t go far from the lodge...
by Jeff | Feb 11, 2017 | 0 Comments
What a difference a day makes. The wind stopped and there were splashes of sunshine as we took to the ice here in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. The temperature also rose. It was 22° before we had all our tip ups in. This is way above average for northern Wisconsin...
by Jeff | Feb 10, 2017 | 0 Comments
No doubt fly fishing is my passion. But I learned every type of fishing along the journey and its likely why I know what I’m doing with a fly rod no matter what fish I’m after. And still to this day one of my all-time favorites is ice fishing for Northern pike,...
by Jeff | Feb 9, 2017 | 0 Comments
I made it to Chippewa Retreat Resort in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin tonight. It’s a miracle. I was scheduled to fly out of Jackson Hole this morning but we’ve had so much snow that Teton Pass was closed. I went to drive around the pass at 3 AM and Snake River...
by Jeff | Feb 8, 2017 | 0 Comments
It was a lovely week being home here in Victor, Idaho. Most of the days I shoveled however I had a couple great backcountry ski jaunts as well. It should be a great year for the trout with all this snow. Tomorrow it’s off to Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin to...
by Jeff | Jan 30, 2017 | 0 Comments
The shows come and go so fast it’s unreal. The Somerset Fly Fishing Show is in the books and in fact, the entire work month of January. For me it was four shows (Denver, Boise, Boston and New Jersey) and 22 seminars mixed on casting ponds and PowerPoint rooms. As...
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!
