by Jeff | Dec 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
The day started very early at dawn under unbelievable skies with a quick dredge where we’ve been sticking the tuna this week. I nailed my second yellowfin tuna on the fly. Sammy picked up Grants fly rig and dredged with me. He had his first yellowfin hook up on the...
by Jeff | Dec 16, 2015 | 0 Comments
Whenever I add a tough fish to my fly rod species list the fishing days ahead are relaxing. I didn’t come to Baja for a yellowfin tuna this week but I capitalized on opportunity and yesterday got a beauty. If I don’t get my marlin this trip, so be it. That great...
by Jeff | Dec 15, 2015 | 2 Comments
If you know me, you know that I’m stubborn. I love a challenge and I’ll stick to almost any challenge until I succeed. I had my butt absolutely handed to me yesterday in a full day attempt to catch a yellowfin tuna on the fly. While I tried, I watched Sammy catch a...
by Jeff | Dec 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
Word on the street of Cabo San Lucas last night was that the yellowfin tuna are in just outside the harbor. Without a sighting of a single marlin yesterday we decided to give the tuna a try for the first few hours of the day and try marlin in the afternoon. Years...
by Jeff | Dec 13, 2015 | 0 Comments
Sammy Vigneri and I became pals back in 1987 when we worked together at the fly shop in Jackson Hole. Sammy was just starting college and I was beginning my career in the fly fishing business. Sammy went on to be OBGYN doctor. By the time he started his practice...
by Jeff | Dec 12, 2015 | 0 Comments
Believe it or not I left the good ole USA again today. I’m presently in Cerritos, Mexico with my friend Sammy Vigneri at his sweet place on the beach. Sammy and I fish Baja together often and this week we’ll be after marlin on the fly, a fish that has not been...
by Jeff | Dec 10, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’ve been running wild since returning from Africa. I’ve been drawing on Cliff Boxes for folks for Christmas gifts, shipping coffee mugs and getting ready for a very intense speaking tour for 2016. To really put the pressure on myself, a couple months ago I accepted...
by Jeff | Dec 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
It’s the end of an absolutely special trip through South Africa and Lesotho. Granny and I are presently somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on one of the longest flights in the world – Johannesburg to Atlanta enroute home. We left Sterkfontein Dam Sunday with Tim...
by Jeff | Nov 28, 2015 | 0 Comments
The wind has finally subsided. The clouds and cold, and today even drizzle, however continued on so it was another slow start for us and for the yellowfish of Sterkfontein Dam. Because it’s the last day, Granny joined us from the get go despite hating the cold and...
by Jeff | Nov 27, 2015 | 0 Comments
A horrible front has moved in. The strength of the wind is the same as yesterday yet it’s done a complete about face. Our temperature has dropped from an enjoyable 75° to a miserable 55° so with the wind it’s no less than horrifically cold. Yet we’re at the...
by Jeff | Nov 26, 2015 | 0 Comments
The Clarens Inn roosters had us up before 5 AM today. Some people get worked up over such but I grew up raising Rhode Island Reds and I wish I had some roosters back home in Victor. The early start had us ready to rock to begin the last chapter of this southern...
by Jeff | Nov 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
I packed the rods last night so there would be no 5 AM temptation to fish the camp pool. Instead me, Granny and the Tourette fishing guides sipped coffee and reminisced about our great four days all while I left my mark at the Makhangoa Community Fishing Camp. I...
by Jeff | Nov 24, 2015 | 2 Comments
Today was our last fishing day in Lesotho and to say it went well is an understatement. I awoke at 4 like most days here in Africa. I told Granny I was making us coffee and then going down to the camp pool to catch the huge rainbow I missed yesterday. She got up...
by Jeff | Nov 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
It will be difficult to return home in ten days to deal with winter and even harder to deal with the shortest days of the year. I can’t stand short days. Down here in Lesotho it gets light at 4 AM and I’m halfway through my coffee by 5. And just like the last two...
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!
