Outcast Striker Raft Archives

An Early Season Strike with the Striker

June 27, 2025June 24, 2025 by Jeff

The earliest we’ve floated our favorite river here in the north of Wisconsin is July 12. While fishing wasn’t by any means incredible last July it was a good day. The question we’ve had is, “What about late June?”. Today we found out. Granny and I loaded our Outcast Striker Raft last night. We … Read more

Play Now Work Later

October 12, 2023October 11, 2023 by Jeff

I feel pressed for time in many areas – mostly work stuff. Believe it or not I’m already preparing for my 2024 Show Tour. Delivering high quality new presentations and updating the old takes lots of work. I’ve built up numerous new photos and stories to incorporate into my PowerPoints from this great year of … Read more

Our New Boat the Striker Outcast Raft

June 7, 2023June 6, 2023 by Jeff

One of the luckiest things during our big move across country from Idaho to Wisconsin was that I was unable to sell our drift boat before leaving. This led to a dreaded drive across country with the ancient baby-blue Slide Rite on an old rusty and cracked trailer behind a 1991 stick shift Exploder. But … 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!