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Fly Fishing for Murray Cod in Australia

December 27, 2025December 14, 2025 by Jeff

We started our Murray cod fishing early today. We got up at 4:20 AM and were unlocking a gate before 5. Its late spring here in the bush of Australia and the birds were singing. The leaves on the trees and shrubs are new and still that brighter early season green. Josh Hutchins guided his … Read more

Aussie Fly Fisher and the Iconic Murray Cod

December 27, 2025December 13, 2025 by Jeff

Last night was the end of two back to back travel days here in Australia. Thursday, I left the Wildcard mothership in the Wessel Islands closing the book on my Yellow Dog / Aussie Fly Fisher hosted trip. Then I flew to Sydney and stayed at Joshua Hutchins house (owner of Aussie Fly Fisher). Yesterday … 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!