fly fishing for white amur Archives

The Biggest Grass Carp of My Life

April 16, 2025February 24, 2021 by Jeff

Getting my butt handed to me Monday by suckers is the kind of thing that makes me hungry for more. Most fishing challenges I conquer easily and aren’t nearly as exhilarating. So, if you figured I’d be headed back to the Salt to try for the Sonora sucker again, you were right. But bad luck, … Read more

Kentucky Grass Carp

May 22, 2016April 16, 2016 by Jeff

We all know the saying “Practice what you preach” but do we always follow that? In my PowerPoint presentation “Fly Fishing for Carp” I have a section about white Amur (better known these days as grass carp). I show photos of the persnickety carp’s different behaviors including grazing the weeds on bottom. I go as … 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!