fly fishing Montana Archives

Hebgen Lake Gulper Action

August 6, 2020August 4, 2020 by Jeff

August 3 & 4, 2020 I love speaking before a crowd and yesterday I was back before one for the first time since my winter fly fishing show tour came to an abrupt ending in the middle of March due to Covid-19. My full day seminar took place in Big Sky, Montana and there … Read more

A Great Fishing Week in MT comes to an End

April 26, 2020 by Jeff

It was a great visit up to our friends Dave and Tammy and Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler. I can’t believe it took me years to make the trip up to fish with Dave. But, for me lately my fishing has been 2 hours from home in the car or flying somewhere far away rather than a … Read more

Sunrise on Quake Lake

August 16, 2019August 13, 2019 by Jeff

Dawn came early. But for me, when I’m on Quake Lake, it doesn’t come soon enough. While most trout fishing in the Yellowstone Country doesn’t start till things warm up, Quake Lake has rising fish very early in the morning. As usual, I had my coffee brewed around 6 AM and soon we were in … Read more

An Unprompted Trip To Quake Lake

August 14, 2019August 12, 2019 by Jeff

I hadn’t planned on fishing this week until Saturday. Saturday I have a friend from South Africa arrive and we are going hard for four days. But then my business partner Mark Kuhn, emailed, “You need to meet me at Quake Lake”. Mark was right. We’ve been planning to meet at Quake for couple … 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!