by Jeff | Apr 29, 2016 | 0 Comments
http://pointshootponder.com/?p=425 I want to thank everyone that came to see my presentations this weekend at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for the Reflections on the Water event. That was a great time and might I add the museum theater was the nicest...
by Jeff | Apr 28, 2016 | 3 Comments
I arrived in Ohio late last night. This is a day early for my Friday speaking engagement at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History but friend Jerry Darkes, who is hosting me and running the event, offered to take me fishing. No sane fly fisherman would miss out...
by Jeff | Apr 27, 2016 | 1 Comment
I’m off to Cleveland, Ohio in a moment to speak at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Friday afternoon and evening. The fun event is called Reflections from the Water. If you live anywhere near I hope you can take it in and stop by and say hi. I will be...
by Jeff | Apr 21, 2016 | 0 Comments
The musky report will post soon but here's a quick reminder: Saturday is our first Yard Sale in 30 years! Rods, Reels, Accessories, Backpacks and more from me. And Granny has been working with Kitchen stuff for more than 20 years. Feel free to Contact me for an...
by Jeff | Apr 16, 2016 | 0 Comments
We all know the saying “Practice what you preach” but do we always follow that? In my PowerPoint presentation “Fly Fishing for Carp” I have a section about white Amur (better known these days as grass carp). I show photos of the persnickety carp’s different...
by Jeff | Apr 15, 2016 | 0 Comments
It was a stunningly beautiful morning on Cave Run Lake. I’m not familiar with sunrise here in Kentucky but to be hypnotized by bird songs I don’t recognize and dazzled by leaves popping on every tree – no doubt it was as good as it gets. Furthermore, I was on a...
by Jeff | Apr 14, 2016 | 2 Comments
Granny and I flew into Cincinnati last night then headed down to Lexington, Kentucky to visit our friends John and Betty Reesor. We’ll be here through Monday and the trip will include two days at Keeneland for some of the finest horse racing you could dream of...
by Jeff | Apr 11, 2016 | 0 Comments
It’s been nice being home. I’ve filled my time with bike rides, hikes, trips to the pub with friends and catching up on work. I’ve also been doing a spring cleanup like never before. Granny and I will be having a Yard Sale on Saturday April 23. No doubt, I’ve...
by Jeff | Apr 5, 2016 | 6 Comments
“Mission Accomplished” is probably the shortest and sweetest way to describe this fly fishing exploratory trip to Gabon. I traveled 18,000 miles round trip for six days of fishing with hopes to catch the giant African threadfin off the beach on the fly. I got it...
by Jeff | Mar 23, 2016 | 0 Comments
Man, this over 50 crap is for the birds. Yes I’ve fished hard this week and its saltwater beach fishing for the most part and it’s intense. It wasn’t easy getting out of bed at 5 this morning and my body was in shambles. That snapper last night may have busted my...
by Jeff | Mar 22, 2016 | 2 Comments
Tides run about 55 minutes later each day. When we got to Sette Cama Camp here in Gabon sunrise was perfect for fishing the mouth of the estuary for tarpon and to try for giant African threadfin. Now the best tides are well after sunrise and because that’s midday,...
by Jeff | Mar 21, 2016 | 0 Comments
There was a lot of rain through the night. And I woke up with a sore bruised left hand from taking the reel handle many times over on that first ginormous tarpon run last night. We sped to the estuary mouth under ominous skies before dawn. We had high expectations...
by Jeff | Mar 20, 2016 | 4 Comments
Our sleep was short but for me solid for the first time since I arrived in Gabon. I hopped from bed and headed for coffee at 4:30 then before I knew it I was in the boat enjoying the stars on the way to the mouth of the estuary. When we got there we parked the boats...
by Jeff | Mar 19, 2016 | 1 Comment
It wasn’t Mark Murray that woke me at 4:30 AM it was a major thunderstorm at around 4. Thunder shook our cabin and flashes of lightening were like strobe lights. The rain came with it and let’s just say, they don’t make rain like this in Idaho. It came down like...
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!
