fly fishing Bayfield Wisconsin Archives

A Breather on the Bayfield Peninsula

August 30, 2025August 29, 2025 by Jeff

I haven’t had much fishing to share in a week. That’s because I was working on some Florida Slam Cliff Fly Boxes for Back Country Fly Fishers Naples and a large Indo-Pacific permit painting for my friend Mike Lodge. Mike goes with me on most my hosted Yellow Dog trips and two years ago he … Read more

A Peaceful Morning on Superior

June 28, 2023 by Jeff

Granny and I made a major scouting trip yesterday looking at lakes, rivers and places to camp for the future. Our fun day ended with dinner in Bayfield and we slept in the back of the Exploder on the banks of Lake Superior. This morning we awoke to drizzle but also amazing calmness on … 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!