by Jeff | Apr 20, 2015 | 5 Comments
A tough night sleep here in Oman. It’s much hotter than our first few nights. And the dew! The dew has you soaked by 1 AM and it’s like sleeping in a sponge for the next four hours. Top that off with the fact that we haven’t showered in six days and salt and sand...
by Jeff | Apr 19, 2015 | 0 Comments
I awoke at 5:45 AM to the Call to Prayer coming from Sharbithat. I sat up in my dew covered sleeping bag just in time to catch the sun popping up behind a distant mosque. The sights and sounds were almighty. We really are on the other side of the world. Then I...
by Jeff | Apr 18, 2015 | 4 Comments
We survived the spring high tide last night. The highest waves dampened the sand under the front tires of our RAV4 at 10 PM. We had a scary hour or so and we were lucky. We were also lucky because we had much less dew and once that tide started dropping we got a...
by Jeff | Apr 17, 2015 | 1 Comment
Granny and I had a clammy night of sleep our first night camping on the beach in Oman. We were on cots under the stars in our jungle (lightweight) sleeping bags. At about 1 AM I noticed we were getting covered in dew. By sunrise it was so thick we both were...
by Jeff | Apr 16, 2015 | 2 Comments
I’m not a fan of driving in traffic and I’m definitely not a fan of renting cars because it means double trouble – driving in traffic and usually driving in an area I’m unfamiliar with. The idea of renting a car in Muscat, Oman and cruising around has had me...
by Jeff | Apr 15, 2015 | 2 Comments
Our Swiss Air flight was two hours late due to a mechanical leaving Dubai last night. We arrived in Muscat, Oman at 2 AM. By the time we cleared Omani customs, changed over money and then taxied to the Ibis Hotel it was 3 AM. Some of the mosques we passed on our...
by Jeff | Apr 13, 2015 | 1 Comment
The wind got stronger overnight. Traveling the 100 yards on a luggage loaded skiff from the Scuba Libre to land where our bus taxi awaited was hectic. Mainland Sudan was experiencing a full on sandstorm. Mutters of damn you “Monsoon Currier” were heard clearly...
by Jeff | Apr 13, 2015 | 2 Comments
Saltwater fly fishing trips beat you up in the “good” way. They can be exhausting. Add in some rugged weather and bus travel across a place like Sudan followed by a four hour flight back to Dubai – I was wrecked today. To add to yesterdays big travel day from...
by Jeff | Apr 12, 2015 | 0 Comments
The wind never let up and now the temperature has dropped to the 60’s here on the Nubian Flats for our last day. It was so cold up top the boat where I usually sleep in my superlight sleeping bag that I moved down into sleeping quarters for the first time in two...
by Jeff | Apr 11, 2015 | 1 Comment
Weather hasn’t just been tough on the East Coast in the US, here in Sudan the Tourette – Fight it in Africa team has been struggling with unusually high winds all season. In case you haven’t saltwater fly fished, there’s almost always wind to contend with, but the...
by Jeff | Apr 10, 2015 | 1 Comment
The wind was light out of the east when I put my head down last night here in Sudan. At 4 AM the Scuba Libre started to swing on anchor. A massive wind picked up from the northwest. It came on so strong that as the boat spun around the waves slapped the side of the...
by Jeff | Apr 9, 2015 | 1 Comment
Sorry for the delay of blogs. Please understand I am so far out in the boonies of Oman there is no contact with the world. We are presently getting supplies in Salalah, Oman. Daily accounts will catch up as possible. We awoke to the unusual sight of calm...
by Jeff | Apr 8, 2015 | 1 Comment
Day 2 provided light wind and clear skies, ideal for flats fishing. Mike and I went with Fede to a small island in sight of the Scuba Libre. Our focus was triggerfish and giant trevally (GT). When I walk the flats I have my 9-weight Winston in hand with my...
by Jeff | Apr 7, 2015 | 1 Comment
I enjoyed a deep sleep under the stars chilled by a cool Red Sea and Sahara Desert breeze. Our boat the Scuba Libre was parked close to mainland Sudan last night. So close I was awoken to the call to prayer from a mosque in a distant village. The morning was colder...
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!
