fly fishing for tilapia Archives

Phoenix AZ’s Urban Fly Fishing Variety Pack

April 20, 2025April 12, 2025 by Jeff

Despite the late night after a great MLB ballgame at Chase Field, Steve Berry and I headed out early to meet up with Mike Faulkinbury. We drove across Phoenix which on a week day would have been awful with traffic, but this morning it wasn’t too bad. And it was good not too many folks … Read more

Wild Horses, Banded Tilapia and Puff Adders

December 26, 2015November 17, 2015 by Jeff

It was another gorgeous morning up on the Gourits River here in South Africa. Most of us were a little gruff however from a poor night sleep. We had a herd of horses freak out several times during the night on the edge of camp. Just like they won’t jump a fence, they wanted to … 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!