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Fly Fishing for Bull Redfish

August 5, 2024August 1, 2024 by Jeff

I was a little groggy this morning for no particular reason. Then I realized it was August 1. This is when it always hits me. I’ve been up early and fishing hard through the extra-long days for three months straight. They don’t call August the dog days for nothing. I could have easily laid back … Read more

Fly Fishing for Jack Crevalle

August 4, 2024July 31, 2024 by Jeff

I’ll never forget the first jack crevalle I caught. It was April of 1989 in Belize. The fish was part of a marauding school of crevalle a few miles up in the brackish waters of the Sibun River. I’d not seen such carnage. I remember the cast, the startling smash on my orange Tarpon Glow … 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!