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Back to the Louisiana Redfish Flats

October 22, 2018October 21, 2018 by Jeff

It was a quick turnaround at home. Granny and I returned from Wisconsin Friday night then Saturday morning I packed for redfishing in Louisiana and left today. Packing entailed taking my cold weather fly lines off my Bauer’s and replacing them with my warm weather saltwater lines for redfish. The rods I’ll bring are about … Read more

The Louisiana Redfish Flats

February 4, 2018November 15, 2017 by Jeff

We returned to the Hopedale, Louisiana redfish flats again today. This time we fished with Capt. Paul Lappin. Paul picked us up at 6:30 AM and we drove the scenic route from New Orleans to the marina. It took about an hour. Instead of grabbing a sit-down breakfast like yesterday we grabbed one to go … Read more

Fly Fishing for Louisiana Redfish

February 4, 2018November 14, 2017 by Jeff

Funny, all the crazy fish I’m knowledgeable about from around the world, yet there’s one of Americas greatest game fish I hardly know. That’s the red drum, better known as the redfish. This week Granny and I are in Louisiana to do a little brush up on this sharp looking species of the grassy flats. … 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!