by Jeff | Nov 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
Early morning comes quick especially if you were up checking out Fantasy Fest on Halloween in Key West earlier this morning at 1 AM. But, when you travel, whether in a foreign country or in a far-flung part of the USA, if you have the opportunity to take in an...
by Jeff | Nov 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
One of the many perks of being on the Simms Fishing Products pro staff is being one of the first to fish the newest of Simms long array of products. Tonight pro photographer Brian Grossenbacher and I landed in Key West, Florida. We are here the courtesy of Simms. ...
by Jeff | Oct 31, 2015 | 0 Comments
With a trip to San Francisco this Friday November 6th to be the keynote speaker for the Henry’s Fork Foundation Reception Dinner then to Africa for three weeks on Monday November 9th, squeezing in two days of fishing in the Florida Keys tomorrow and Monday didn’t seem...
by Jeff | Oct 26, 2015 | 0 Comments
Fall is the time for get togethers with my friends whom are guides, fly shop employees, fly fishing instructors and those who are just too dang busy to spend time with in the summertime. Fall is the time when fly fishing people do less working and more fishing. ...
by Jeff | Oct 21, 2015 | 2 Comments
Twas a late blurry night at the TroutHunter on the banks of the Henry’s Fork celebrating my 50th. I wasn’t alone. More than twenty held it down till the bitter end of 2 AM. You would suspect a quiet morning today but instead we got up because of a drastic change in...
by Jeff | Oct 19, 2015 | 3 Comments
We stayed up late again last night but it didn’t slow us down an iota. Nine of us sucked down coffees at 6 AM while organizing our gear for the next part of our trip. We were headed for the Ranch on the Henry’s Fork to celebrate my 50th all weekend. At 8 AM...
by Jeff | Oct 16, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’d be lying if I said I woke up feeling like a million bucks this morning. I had seven of my best friends in town at the house last night and more arrived today. We’re more like brothers than friends. We’ve lived together, fished, hiked traveled and you name it. ...
by Jeff | Oct 15, 2015 | 2 Comments
A long anticipated get together with some of my best friends began when I collected college buddies from the Jackson Hole Airport this afternoon. 100 miles away several others were landing in Idaho Falls and two others were entering the Yellowstone Country by car. ...
by Jeff | Oct 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’ve been getting lots of necessary “indoor” chores done the last two weeks such as organizing my winter speaking tour, some artwork and I packed for some upcoming adventures. I got the tasks done only because I was grounded after going under the knife in late...
by Jeff | Oct 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’ve been cranking up the art the last ten days. I’ve been decorating a few Cliff Fly Boxes and doing some painting. I’ll have some flashy new fish species such as bluefin tuna on mugs, steins and all my products for that matter on my web store and now I even have a...
by Jeff | Sep 23, 2015 | 2 Comments
I spent a beautiful day rowing Maddon Creek today with friends Ken Holder and Nati. Ken built my first website fifteen years ago and maintained it as a favor for ten years. But Ken has a real job and when my site got larger than he ever imagined a fishing bum could...
by Jeff | Sep 21, 2015 | 0 Comments
Just like last Monday I taught war veterans how to fly fish out at Teton Pines. Today was for the men and they too will be fishing on the Snake River later this week. It was a spectacular September day without a cloud in the sky. The veterans are always incredibly...
by Jeff | Sep 18, 2015 | 0 Comments
Since teaching fly fishing to veterans on Monday the Yellowstone Country has been doused with needed snow and rain. My lawn is as green as it was in June and the leaves are changing. When we got to Kubswin Lake today there were tiny remnants of snow on the ground. ...
by Jeff | Sep 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
Each year I get to spend a day teaching war veterans how to fly fish out at Teton Pines in Jackson, WY. The event is organized by Honoring Our Veterans of Jackson Hole and I’ve had the privilege of being a part of it for the last three years. This year I have the...
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!
