by Jeff | Aug 7, 2015 | 0 Comments
With so many brook trout of dreams this week, today, our last day, was all about ouananiche, better known as landlocked salmon. Paul Ostiguy, owner of McKenzie River Lodge, our friend and the man responsible for bringing Granny and me to Labrador was able to join us...
by Jeff | Aug 6, 2015 | 2 Comments
On a brutally cold morning for August, even up here in Northern Labrador, Andrew, Granny and I and Ninja Média’ man alias Bill made our way back up Andre Lake from McKenzie River Lodge to the Come Back River. The boat ride to the Come Back is much longer than...
by Jeff | Aug 5, 2015 | 4 Comments
It started out cold and drizzly for our twenty minute boat ride half way up Andre Lake this morning to where we anchored our canoe at the mouth of the Quartzite River. The ride speaks of how deep in the wilderness in Northern Labrador we are. There are no houses or...
by Jeff | Aug 4, 2015 | 0 Comments
It was a gnarly storm through the night. Heavy rain pummeled our cabin at McKenzie River Lodge and wind shook the walls. Granny got up at 2 AM for something and I heard her mumble, “I’m not fishing in this crap”. I’m not sure anyone would’ve but to our good fortune...
by Jeff | Aug 3, 2015 | 0 Comments
With the Otter Seaplane down Labrador Air Safaris brought in a 1954 De Havilland Beaver to fly us to McKenzie River Fly Fishing Lodge. I was comfy with our replacement plane being that I lived off a Beaver much of June on the Selwyn Lake pike trip. Unfortunately...
by Jeff | Aug 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’m sorry to say we didn’t make it to McKenzie River Lodge and we are right back in the same hotel we were at last night in rainy Labrador City. Things were looking good. We went to the airport to meet Paul Ostiguy arriving from Sept Ilse. But on one short flight –...
by Jeff | Aug 2, 2015 | 1 Comment
We awoke to some bleak “Monsoon Currier” type weather this morning here in Labrador City, Labrador. But at the moment all is in play and we’ll fly further north for McKenzie River Lodge at 12:30 PM. No more news today will be good news! I don’t think we have...
by Jeff | Aug 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
It wasn’t easy getting up at 5 AM in Montreal. For Granny and me 5 AM is like 3 AM. But then flashes of huge brook trout in Labrador entered the brain and next thing I knew we were at the Provincial Airlines flight gate. This flight originally wasn’t so early but...
by Jeff | Jul 31, 2015 | 0 Comments
We had smooth sailing from home to Montreal. Believe it or not Montreal is only a bit more than half way to McKenzie River Fly Fishing Lodge in Western Labrador from Victor. That’s how far north we’re headed. Tomorrow we’ll fly to Wabush, Labrador on Provincial Air...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2015 | 0 Comments
If you wondering how the heck the Currier’s have pulled off yet another incredible trip – it goes like this. . . . As most of you know I spend three months of winter on the road speaking at the Fly Fishing Shows and fly fishing clubs throughout the USA and...
by Jeff | Jul 29, 2015 | 2 Comments
I vividly remember sitting in dads lap back in the late 60’s and early 70’s on Saturday afternoons watching sports. The minute The Wide World of Sports was over, on came The American Sportsman with Curt Gowdy. My absolute most memorable episode was when Curt had Lee...
by Jeff | Jul 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
It’s a specialty of mine getting folks to fish for more than salmonids. Here in trout filled Idaho we have excellent fly fishing for carp but the challenge is getting people to do it. Even one of my business partners in Fish and Game Art Gifts, Harvey Cohen, who...
by Jeff | Jul 21, 2015 | 0 Comments
I’ve never seen more than one other boat on Maddon Creek but today we saw five. Float fishing is more popular than Rock “n” Roll these days and when the water is small, five boats competing with each other makes for a very slow day of fishing. Luckily, on ladies day...
by Jeff | Jul 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
It’s good to be home trout fishing again, and today was especially good to be trout fishing on one of my favorite lakes, Island Park Reservoir. Best of all, I was with my buddy and lake fly fishing expert, Phil Rowley from Canada. Phil has quickly become one of 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!
