by Jeff | Nov 2, 2014 | 2 Comments
Last nights unsuccessful fishing on Awarmi Slough was our warm-up session. Indeed there were arapaima, but really Awarmi is close to the Rewa Eco-Lodge and the best option for the half day of fishing available. It’s a good place to get tuned up, let guides to see...
by Jeff | Nov 1, 2014 | 0 Comments
At 7 AM promptly, our driver picked up Tim Brune and I as well as two other fly fishing guests from the Cara Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana to head for the domestic airport to fly into the rainforest. The other guests are Jim and Alex of California. Like me, this is...
by Jeff | Oct 31, 2014 | 0 Comments
If not for the stopover in Trinidad where Tim Brune and I were required to stay on the plane, the Caribbean Airlines flight from Miami to Georgetown, Guyana wouldn’t have seemed so long. Instead, the four hour thirty minute flight extended to six and a half hours. ...
by Jeff | Oct 30, 2014 | 3 Comments
2014 has been a heck of a travel year – five new countries on five different continents. This morning I’m headed for Miami where I’ll catch up with good friend and fellow Victor resident Tim Brune. Tim is flying in from a permit trip down in Mexico. We’ll sleep...
by Jeff | Oct 27, 2014 | 3 Comments
October 24-27, 2014 The hardest part about leaving my fly shop job of twenty-three years exactly five years ago this weekend wasn’t fear of failing in self-employment. It was leaving my fellow employees that happened to be my best friends. Folks who I saw every...
by Jeff | Oct 22, 2014 | 0 Comments
Sure, lake trout get much bigger than this – but pretty cool when I wasn’t even supposed to be fishing today. The 27 incher was an incredible fight on my 6-weight Winston and old Ross Arius Reel. The mackinaw are close to shore at the moment because of the recently...
by Jeff | Oct 18, 2014 | 0 Comments
The minute I finished up my PowerPoint presentation for the Kalamazoo Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited Thursday night, Terry Wittorp, Kevin Thompson, several other club members and I headed for the Muskegon River. The Muskegon is one of Michigan’s tributaries to...
by Jeff | Oct 14, 2014 | 0 Comments
The official end to summer hits me when I head out of town to do my first speaking engagement of the winter season. That’s today. I’m packed and ready to head to the Idaho Falls airport and head for two gigs. Tomorrow night I speak to St. Joseph River Valley...
by Jeff | Oct 12, 2014 | 1 Comment
I received a heavyweight package in the mail today from my friend Jim Klug. In the carefully wrapped bundle was Jim’s new book, Fly Fishing Belize. If only I’d walked to the post office instead of riding my bike. This book is so full of information and Jim’s...
by Jeff | Oct 10, 2014 | 0 Comments
Fly fishing Jenny Lake in October is do dang special with the Tetons before your eyes on every cast that a trip to Jackson Hole for a few errands turned into a full afternoon and evening skipping out on work. . . . Again! Today I went with my pal Trey Scharp. Trey is...
by Jeff | Oct 8, 2014 | 1 Comment
I struggle with self-employment in October. This is the best time of year to fly fish my home waters. Furthermore, this week we’re having one of the nicest Indian summer weeks of all time with temps in the 70°s. Today I said screw work and headed to Jenny Lake in...
by Jeff | Sep 29, 2014 | 0 Comments
Because of two massive art projects due soon, preparations for a speaking tour to the Midwest next week, baseball playoffs and a huge expedition to Guyana for arapaima at the end of the month, rather than putting hours into writing an essay, today’s blog must be short...
by Jeff | Sep 25, 2014 | 1 Comment
September 22-25, 2014 If you’ve ever fly fished in Arizona then surely you know Cinda Howard and Steve Berry. Cinda is an expert of nearly twenty years on Arizona waters. She worked at Orvis in Scottsdale for eight years, was president of Desert Fly Casters...
by Jeff | Sep 21, 2014 | 0 Comments
For years I donated art to Project Healing Waters and Wounded Warriors for their fundraising events. I’m sure the pieces sold and helped but once the art left me I never knew for sure how much it contributed. Then last year I got the opportunity to give a day...
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!
