by Jeff | May 27, 2016 | 0 Comments
About a month ago friend and superb South Fork River fishing guide, Mike Bean, asked me to block off May 27 so we could go fishing together. We’ve been trying to fish together for a couple years and this advance notice was the only way to make it happen. Mike is...
by Jeff | May 26, 2016 | 0 Comments
I haven’t spent much time on my home waters this year but the Ririe Bass n Fly tournament is a day I hope never to miss. I’ve been doing the fun contest since its start about ten years ago. Rather than speedy bass boats like the monster competitions on the pro...
by Jeff | May 20, 2016 | 4 Comments
It’s never nice to feel its essential to catch a fish. But today I had to catch a fish and it had to be a roosterfish. It’s been a rugged week for me with the menacing roosters. I hooked and lost a brute on day one and since it’s been heartbreak after heartbreak...
by Jeff | May 19, 2016 | 2 Comments
With all the action we experienced yesterday on the roosterfish beach we headed right back early this morning. Indeed, we got our butts handed to us and didn’t catch any but that’s the way roosterfishing goes sometimes. Seeing them is half the battle and we saw more...
by Jeff | May 18, 2016 | 1 Comment
You’d suspect a fast trip back to the roosterfish beach after Sammy’s catch yesterday afternoon, but to keep fishing interesting we went on a morning side trip first. I’ve always wanted to catch a giant hawkfish. He’s not a big fish by any means but he’s gorgeous...
by Jeff | May 17, 2016 | 1 Comment
I had a good hunch about the place I fished yesterday. Twice I came close to connecting to proper roosterfish but it didn’t quite happen. Today I had Grant and Sammy drop me off on the same beach. In my experience great catches come after a few close calls. The...
by Jeff | May 16, 2016 | 1 Comment
I took the last antibiotic for my tooth yesterday. The pills fixed the infection but the side effects were adding up. I was feeling much like this poor deceased turtle. But today I awoke feeling so good that Sammy, Grant and I crushed some breakfast burritos in...
by Jeff | May 15, 2016 | 4 Comments
It was a strange start today in South Baja. We awoke to distant flashes of lightening and far away rumbles of thunder. The cloudy skies around us let loose and fed the desert with scattered rain showers. Rain in South Baja in May is about as common as seeing a...
by Jeff | May 14, 2016 | 1 Comment
I’m covering some ground lately. I flew home from Atlanta yesterday just in time for a nice evening in the yard with Granny. Things are greening up beautifully around Victor, ID. Today I caught the crack o dawn flight from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake City then...
by Jeff | May 12, 2016 | 0 Comments
It’s not often that a guy from Idaho gets a chance at monster largemouth bass at a private bass lake. But when you have the right connections and friends such as Andy Bowen, owner of Cohutta Fishing Co., you can manage to get lucky. Today is my last day in Georgia...
by Jeff | May 11, 2016 | 0 Comments
I slept through the night for the first time in a week. That’s because my toothache wasn’t throbbing inside my head. That made for a great start to my day in Cartersville, Georgia. Before I knew it I was hopping in the truck with the boys of Cohutta Fishing Co.,...
by Jeff | May 10, 2016 | 0 Comments
I woke up on the banks of the Etowah River in Cartersville, Georgia this morning at Cohutta Fishing Co. owners house, Andy Bowen. Andy has an incredible spread and we launched his Hog Island boat before sunrise off his private boat ramp. Along was friend Michael...
by Jeff | May 9, 2016 | 0 Comments
It’s the last leg of my speaking tour winter 2016 and find myself in Georgia with a severe tooth ache. I came down with radiating face pain while carping last week and attempted to resolve the ailment Friday with my dentist. After all his tests nothing showed up. ...
by Jeff | May 6, 2016 | 0 Comments
May 3 - 6, 2016 It’s refreshing to finally get home, fish at home and enjoy spring. Of course, it’s the start of our spring runoff so our river fishing options are limited. Most our tailwaters such as the South Fork and Lower Henry’s Fork are fishing well but boat...
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!
