by Jeff | Nov 20, 2024 | 1 Comment
While I travel the next two days for the Amazon it’s a good time to push a few “Currier” art products for the holidays. I’m pretty sure everyone is familiar with my Webstore but just in case you’re not, here’s a reminder. I offer over 80 different species of...
by Jeff | Nov 18, 2024 | 3 Comments
Friday I made what I thought was my last cast in Wisconsin of the year and caught a musky. I reeled it in and said “Nice way to end 2024”. Next cast will be in Brazil. But, it was gorgeous today and when Granny suggested a drive north to Bayfield I said sure and...
by Jeff | Nov 15, 2024 | 2 Comments
2024 will go down as one of my best local water fishing seasons since I was a youngster in Jackson Hole. Two years ago everything here in Wisconsin was new. I got my butt handed to me most outings but love new water and the challenges that come with. Last year the...
by Jeff | Nov 12, 2024 | 0 Comments
40 years ago today I lived on the shores of Lake Superior. I was a sophomore at Northland College in Ashland, WI. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I had a very light load of classes so that I could fish. But I can assure you I would not have thought about getting in a...
by Jeff | Nov 8, 2024 | 5 Comments
Bob and I each whacked one of those 27” northern pike the other day. Most foraging anglers avoid pike because of the Y bones but if you no how to fillet around them, pike are delicious. Last nights meal reminded me and Granny that we need to collect one a week...
by Jeff | Nov 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
Once upon a time, October was considered the last fly fishing month of the season. And to tell you the truth, the places I’ve spent most of my life, New England as a kid, Wisconsin during college and in the Yellowstone/Jackson Hole region back in the 80’s and 90’s,...
by Jeff | Oct 30, 2024 | 1 Comment
Granny and I woke up on the banks of one of our beautiful Wisconsin rivers. It was so warm we sat outside and drank our coffee. Before you knew it, I was wadered up. I walked and fished about a mile of this gorgeous section of river starting in a t-shirt but ending...
by Jeff | Oct 29, 2024 | 4 Comments
One could not create a finer day for the end of October in the north of Wisconsin. Today’s high temperature was a balmy 74° and for the first time in weeks, the wind hardly blew. The day was so spectacular it appeared too nice for musky fishing but one would be...
by Jeff | Oct 26, 2024 | 3 Comments
We celebrated Howie’s epic musky last night. And rightfully so. A 46” fish of any kind from a river is a creature that is rare in this day and age. Today however was a different day and in order to complete my goal of getting both Mike Neuman and Howie into their...
by Jeff | Oct 25, 2024 | 9 Comments
I made a goal last night as I bedded down, guide my two buddies (regulars on the blog), Mike Neuman and Matt “Howie” Norton, to their first muskellunge on the fly. Not an easy task being Neuman is new to chucking the big fly rods and Howie is jinxed with the elusive...
by Jeff | Oct 22, 2024 | 1 Comment
Granny joined Bob and I on a long float today. In October Granny choses her fishing days based on air temperature rather than the likely fishing results. While not quite the record-breaking warm we had yesterday, the thermometers did push up into the 70°s and the...
by Jeff | Oct 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
I’m continuing to hit the northern Wisconsin water hard this October and today I was right back out there with Bob. There’s a serious heatwave going on. While I didn’t think to get a pic during the heat of the day, this gives you an idea. I took this photo at 4 PM...
by Jeff | Oct 18, 2024 | 2 Comments
I skimmed through my blogs of past October 18th birthdays. It’s a fact, I always go fishing and today was no different. After the big float yesterday Granny and I visited a couple backwoods Wisconsin bars then parked the Ruby Van in a nice spot for dinner and a good...
by Jeff | Oct 17, 2024 | 0 Comments
I always try to go big on my birthday so Granny and I started the celebration a day early and made it a two day one night camping trip. Today is the day before and we fished with Bob and took on a long float. We were hesitant and nearly cancelled last night due to a...
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!
