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Good Times at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo

March 18, 2024 by Jeff

It was a pleasure to be back in Minnesota at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo this past weekend. I shared headliner speaking duties with friend and well-known author and angler, George Daniel. We both presented numerous presentations over three days and all were well attended by fun folks eager to learn new techniques and … Read more

The Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo 2024 St. Paul MN

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 by Jeff

I’m stoked to be back speaking at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo in St. Paul, MN this week – Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-17. I’ll be sharing a booth with George Daniel and Granny will be there with my books and showing off my famous fish coffee mugs and steins. I’ll even have … Read more

Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo 2017

March 20, 2021March 15, 2017 by Jeff

This weekend I speak at my last Fly Fishing Show of the season. Really? Winter zipped by that fast? Indeed it did and I’m ending with a bang with my first ever appearance at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota March 17-19. I’ve known of this show for many years … 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!