flyfishing for marlin Archives

A Bluewater Fly Fishing Day to Remember

January 4, 2016December 16, 2015 by Jeff

Whenever I add a tough fish to my fly rod species list the fishing days ahead are relaxing. I didn’t come to Baja for a yellowfin tuna this week but I capitalized on opportunity and yesterday got a beauty. If I don’t get my marlin this trip, so be it. That great fish will come … Read more

Time to Break the Marlin on the Fly Curse

January 4, 2016December 13, 2015 by Jeff

Sammy Vigneri and I became pals back in 1987 when we worked together at the fly shop in Jackson Hole. Sammy was just starting college and I was beginning my career in the fly fishing business. Sammy went on to be OBGYN doctor. By the time he started his practice I’d been running that fly … 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!