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November 11, 2024November 9, 2022 by Jeff

At 2 AM I was woken in the middle of a strange marlin dream. I was getting attacked by a mounted one! But what truly woke me was a weaving palm tree outside our room here in San Carlos, Baja on the shores of Magdalena Bay. There’s been hardly any wind this week but in … Read more

Time to Break the Curse

November 15, 2022November 7, 2022 by Jeff

You may remember my milkfish troubles over the years. I simply couldn’t catch one. I had the disastrous day for them when I arrived in Providence last April. But then on the second to last day at Providence, I finally caught one, ending a war with my second most nemesis fish species. But my number … 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!