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A Change in Weather Doesn’t Hinder A New Catch

August 26, 2023August 24, 2023 by Jeff

Aug 22-24, 2023 I’ve fished an insane amount this summer and have a packed fishing schedule the next three months that includes two trips to Canada starting next Tuesday, Mexico in October and Borneo in November/December. Surely, this week I’d buckle down and catch up on work. Perhaps life? But then the forecast came. A … Read more

First New 2023 Species Comes by Luck

May 13, 2023May 9, 2023 by Jeff

Last fall Granny and I made a trip to the Driftless Region of Wisconsin and visited and fished with our friends Jo and Jason Randall who live near Viroqua. This rolling hilled farm country has some of the best trout fishing in all the Midwest and I’m happy to say we returned here this afternoon … Read more

Hunt for a White Sucker on the Fly

April 14, 2022April 13, 2022 by Jeff

Fishing Lake Winnipesaukee yesterday gave me the bug. I went to bed last night dreaming of a news species on the fly today – the white sucker (Catostomus commersonii). Instead of taking the canoe, I drove my old 91 Explorer to Back Bay and fished on foot. While we didn’t have much sun today, it … 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!