Jackson Hole One Fly Contest Archives

Fight for the Podium – Jackson Hole One Fly 2022

September 20, 2022September 11, 2022 by Jeff

I gave my team Yellow Dog a pep talk last night. We were sitting solidly in 2nd Place after day one of the two day contest here at the Jackson Hole One Fly. However, I’ve done a few competitions in my day, tournaments aren’t over until they’re over. By the time I was done, all … Read more

Surprise Travel Plans Lead Me to Jackson Hole

September 13, 2022September 8, 2022 by Jeff

Yellow Dog Flyfishing founder Jim Klug called me July 7th and asked me to fish for the YD Jackson Hole One Fly Team in September. I was leaving for Italy July 9th. The last thing I wanted to consider was leaving my new home waters in Wisconsin for yet another time this summer. But I … Read more

The Jackson Hole One Fly 2019 Conclusion

September 11, 2019September 8, 2019 by Jeff

I barely slept a wink last night and was up at 4:50 AM before the alarm went off. It wasn’t day 2 of the Jackson Hole One Fly that kept me awake, it’s the fact that tomorrow morning I leave for Brazil. Am I ready? My brain spun all night. But I am ready for … Read more

The Dog Days are for Fly Fishing for Carp

August 31, 2015August 28, 2015 by Jeff

I finally got out with my longtime friend and blog regular of past years, Gary Eckman. Gary is the man responsible for me giving the chance to fish the Jackson Hole One Fly the last five years because he’s placed me on his team. But this year Gary doesn’t have a One Fly Team for … Read more

Contact Jeff

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!