Mossy Creek Fly Fishing Archives

Great Week in VA Comes to an End

February 4, 2017September 22, 2016 by Jeff

My week in Virginia ended with a bang last night. I spent the afternoon doing presentations including “Improve Your Fishing Photography” and “Warmwater Fly Fishing” along with “Casting in the Wind and the Double Haul”. Then last night for the Fly Fishers of Virginia banquet I presented “Trout Bumming the World”. Everyone is ready to … Read more

Tropical Storm Continues My Marlin on Fly Curse

September 28, 2016September 20, 2016 by Jeff

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being best) the way I felt at bedtime last night was about a 2.5. When we got up at 4 AM to get back on the Waterman to try and catch a marlin on the fly this morning, I’d jumped to a 4 and I was going. But at … Read more

Virginia Beach Here I Come

February 4, 2017September 17, 2016 by Jeff

You know I’ve been traveling too much when I say it was an easy jaunt from Idaho to Virginia Beach, Virginia. But it was. I left my house in Victor at 4:30 AM and Colby and brother Brian Trow, owners of Mossy Creek Fly Fishing, picked me up from the Richmond airport at 6 PM … 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!