by Jeff | Jul 15, 2015 | 2 Comments
Our boat seemed abandoned and until these past two days my new silver 1991 Explorer had yet to take us fishing. I don’t like being away so much in the months of June and July but that’s the way it panned out. Monday night Granny and I headed off on our favorite...
by Jeff | Jul 11, 2015 | 2 Comments
The smoke was back this morning at Selwyn Lake Lodge. There was so much of it that there was concern about flying out on our way home. But although we were late, not leaving till 5 PM, we made the first leg to Stony Rapids on the Beaver. Departing at 5 was in a...
by Jeff | Jun 30, 2015 | 0 Comments
It was time to begin the journey home today and wouldn’t you know, there was no smoke and not a cloud in the sky. I was aggravated to say the least knowing that if today were yesterday we’d have flown to the Sand Dunes and Hunt Falls. But sipping coffee outside my...
by Jeff | Jun 29, 2015 | 2 Comments
6 AM came early but we had a full day of flying planned to some special places, the Athabasca Sand Dunes and Hunt (Lefty’s) Falls. There was some fishing involved too. The flats in front of the Sand Dunes for pike then Arctic grayling at the falls. But the venture...
by Jeff | Jun 28, 2015 | 0 Comments
RA and Austin got so much great pike footage for the movie yesterday that it took the pressure off. Everything on their list got shot and I mean SUPERB stuff. And the epic day must have worn us out as well because I stayed in bed this morning till 8 and RA and...
by Jeff | Jun 27, 2015 | 2 Comments
Ron knocked on our door at 7 this morning and said he was already called to fly and work. That was the bummer to start the day. Furthermore, Brennan was guiding. We had big plans and couldn’t waste the day so RA, Austin and I got permission to use a boat. RA...
by Jeff | Jun 26, 2015 | 0 Comments
We could have done better with our time today. It was no ones fault but we didn’t fish much. It’s simply that the fires down south keep getting worse and worse and closer as well. The smoke finally showed up here and its clogging the lungs badly. Ron got...
by Jeff | Jun 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
We awoke to a spectacular day. There was hardly a cloud in the sky and regardless of being on the Saskatchewan/Northwest Territories border it was hot and humid. Down south the fires continue to get worse. They are evacuating at Missinipe on Otter Lake where we...
by Jeff | Jun 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
We woke up to a stunningly beautiful morning here at Selwyn Lake Lodge. The skies were a rich blue. Despite last nights late night of fishing and a few beers till 1 AM this morning, we were up and ready to start fishing and filming early. Unfortunately, not...
by Jeff | Jun 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
We all bounced from bed with excitement this morning. The fishing and relaxing at Otter Lake was nice but the eagerness to get to the big pike has been killing us. The fires continue to get worse but our weather was excellent so after breakfast we loaded the Beaver...
by Jeff | Jun 22, 2015 | 0 Comments
It was another beautiful day at Otter Lake in Missinipe, Saskatchewan. When I sip coffee on Ron’s porch around 7 AM it’s nearly 70° and mid day is upwards of that. The only bad thing we have in northern Saskatchewan right now is smoke from numerous lightening...
by Jeff | Jun 21, 2015 | 2 Comments
It will be getting dark earlier tonight – probably about midnight here in northern Saskatchewan. I think we can live with that but it’s still sad that days get shorter starting the first day of summer. In a few days we’ll be further north at Selwyn Lake at the top...
by Jeff | Jun 20, 2015 | 0 Comments
This trip to Canada caught a few by surprise. The reason is that I haven’t known much about the trip myself. Back in about March, right about when I was headed to the Middle East for five weeks, friend RA Beattie shot me an email and told me to block off June 20 to...
by Jeff | Jun 19, 2015 | 0 Comments
I was home a mere thirty hours from Michigan before catching an early flight for Denver then another to Calgary and on to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. For the next two weeks I’ll be the angler for a segment in an RA Beattie Outdoor film. From what I understand we’ll be...
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!
