Aussie Fly Fisher Archives

Fly Fishing the West Side of Cape York Australia

October 5, 2024September 27, 2024 by Jeff

Granny and I went down like rocks here on the west side of Cape York Australia last night but woke up at midnight. The first night with a 19 hour time difference from home can make it hard to get a good night sleep. My trick to get back to sleep is half a sleeping … Read more

Arrival on the Other Side of the Pond

September 27, 2024September 26, 2024 by Jeff

It was a long trip from Hayward, Wisconsin to Cape York Australia. Two days of travel to be exact. The breakdown was Duluth to Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia (15 hours by the way) to Cairns and finally to Weipa which is close to as far north as you can get in Australia. … 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!