by Jeff | Jun 21, 2014 | 0 Comments
We picked up some hitchhikers on the way back from my parent’s 50th anniversary party yesterday – my nieces Sammy and Montana. My brother and his wife headed to Wisconsin for the weekend so Granny and I (and the rest of my family THANKFULLY) were babysitters. ...
by Jeff | Jun 20, 2014 | 0 Comments
The wind doesn’t seem to want to stop here on Lake Winnipesaukee this week. It was so bad already at 5 AM as well as colder than I could believe that I stayed in my sleeping bag until well after 6. Then I headed out and struggled in the canoe trying to maneuver...
by Jeff | Jun 19, 2014 | 0 Comments
Undoubtedly I’ve experienced the best of the best when it comes to fly fishing during my worldly adventures the last thirty years. But if I could turn back the clock to the late 70’s and early 80’s to relive the hot summer nights from my canoe in Back Bay under the...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2014 | 0 Comments
I couldn’t wait to guide Granny to my old smallmouth bass water this morning out from our family camp here on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. But all night long I could hear the west wind picking up speed. At 5 AM, the normally placid Wolfeboro Bay was covered...
by Jeff | Jun 17, 2014 | 3 Comments
Granny and I flew across country yesterday. We’re in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. My parent’s official day is on Friday but Granny and I thought we’d make a nice vacation out of it with some serious warmwater fly fishing on my...
by Jeff | Jun 15, 2014 | 2 Comments
I had no business fishing a third day this week. I still have a scientific report to write for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) about our Bhutan mahseer fishing findings, a short story for the Scientific Anglers 2015 catalog about golden dorado, consignment art to get...
by Jeff | Jun 11, 2014 | 0 Comments
June 10 & 11, 2014 It’s been grueling since returning from Bhutan. I hope everyone enjoyed the Bhutan blog because I must have more than 70 hours into it. Then the catching up on emails, mail, bills, yard work and etc – it’s been a major grunt. But I remained...
by Jeff | Jun 6, 2014 | 0 Comments
It’s a good thing I don’t accept jet-lag because I hit the ground running this week. Tonight I spoke to a large enthusiastic crowd for Friends of the Teton River (FTR) at their annual banquet. I presented a short conservation oriented speech called “More Amazing...
by Jeff | Jun 3, 2014 | 0 Comments
Bhutan is in the books. Bhutan is number fifty in countries fished – 50 before 50! There are always a few pics that didn’t fit into the blog that must be shown. Here they are and I’m now closing the book on Bhutan till my next trip there. The happy people of Bhutan...
by Jeff | May 30, 2014 | 0 Comments
Just to remind you (See May 20 & May 22), Mike Dawes, Niel Fox and I have been here in Bhutan to help Jon Miceler, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Government of Bhutan figure out what the possibilities of high-end, catch and release mahseer fly fishing...
by Jeff | May 29, 2014 | 2 Comments
If someone told me we’d catch mahseer today I’d tell them they were crazy. The heavy rain hadn’t stopped since we left Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan and it got worse a few times during our drive out of Geylegphug. The roads are teetering, breaking apart on the...
by Jeff | May 28, 2014 | 1 Comment
Heavy rain started yesterday afternoon as soon as we got in the cars and went all night. This morning we got up at 5 and scrambled to pack our junk in a downpour. Then we hit the slow moving roads of Bhutan before they start washing out. We’ve gone from the jungle...
by Jeff | May 27, 2014 | 1 Comment
It was another wet night in the tent. I slept fully dressed in raingear. The dampness took its toll and my lungs have tightened up like I have asthma. It’s killing me and this morning I didn’t look so hot as I made my way down to the confluence pool for the last...
by Jeff | May 26, 2014 | 1 Comment
The rain returned last night. I woke up in standing water in the bottom of my leaky tent. The night was quite uncomfortable. Luckily the rain slowed down to a drizzle by morning. I wandered down to the confluence pool nearly in darkness hoping for a hungry beast...
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!
