fly fishing for Gila Trout Archives

Add the Gila Trout to the Species List!

March 15, 2026March 12, 2026 by Jeff

I dropped the “new species” card at the end of yesterday’s blog. That’s because Steve Berry said there’s a place less than two hours from Phoenix where I could test my luck and go for the unusual and rare Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae), a unique trout only found in Arizona and New Mexico. In the … Read more

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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!