by Jeff | Jul 25, 2022 | 16 Comments
I’m alive. Since I started the blog in October of 2009 I have never gone so far behind in my daily fishing stories. And even so, my routine is to pick up right where I left off once there’s time, which in this case would be an entry for July 12. And it will come. ...
by Jeff | Jul 23, 2022 | 1 Comment
Sleep was hard to come by last night. Today our USA Masters Fly Fishing team entered the last session of the competition in first place by one point over the Belgians, seven over the Czechs and nine over the Italians. Yeah, things looked good for a medal, but all we...
by Jeff | Jul 22, 2022 | 0 Comments
We, Team USA woke up today in first place in the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships with room to spare. But we were determined to get out there in Session 4 and kick butt and grow a stronger lead. But we felt stress – I certainly did. And I know this team. ...
by Jeff | Jul 21, 2022 | 0 Comments
5 AM came quick. Currently its day three of the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships. I headed for the feared Noce River. While both sections of the Noce, the Upper and Lower have skunked more competitors than any of the three rivers, the Lower is by far the...
by Jeff | Jul 20, 2022 | 3 Comments
In 2003 I was on Team USA at one of the biggest World Championships. It was in Jaca, Spain. A rare thing happened for me. All five of my sessions went nearly flawless despite some of the most difficult conditions and wisest wild brown trout in the history of the...
by Jeff | Jul 19, 2022 | 1 Comment
The 5 AM alarm I set wasn’t a welcome sound to Pete and I went it blazed off. But each of us and the rest of Team USA had buses to catch at 6:15 AM to head for Session One in the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships here in Italy. It wasn’t only us that had a...
by Jeff | Jul 18, 2022 | 0 Comments
Today was registration day and the start of the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships here at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. Though Stefano offered to guide us fishing this morning, everyone opted to make today a rest day and a day to tidy up the tackle to be ready...
by Jeff | Jul 17, 2022 | 0 Comments
It wouldn’t have hurt to have spent the final day of World Masters Fly Fishing practice organizing our stuff rather than fishing. At least Pete and I that is, being today was our eighth fishing day in a row. Quite frankly, we’re a little worn out. Our tippet, fly...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2022 | 0 Comments
Today was team practice on the feared Noce River. I say feared because our Italian guide Stefano thinks this river will blank many contestants in the World Master’s Fly Fishing Championships next week. A blank and your team is in trouble. With that in mind, we all...
by Jeff | Jul 15, 2022 | 2 Comments
We had a full team practice today. We split up a little only because in Italy they don’t allow more than three anglers on a piece of water at the same time but for the most part we hung together. Pete and I watched a lot to give the new arrival teammates more time...
by Jeff | Jul 14, 2022 | 0 Comments
The rest of our World Masters USA Fly Fishing Team (Brett Bishop, Mike Sexton and Loren Williams) landed in Milan, Italy this morning and began the four hour drive up to meet Pete, Jerry, Stefano and I. Jerry and Stefano drove to the lower Sarca River to meet them to...
by Jeff | Jul 13, 2022 | 0 Comments
During the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships next week there we will fish two sessions on Italy’s Sarca River. There will be an upper and a lower section. Both parts of this beautiful river run in an off blue glacial like color over shallow boulders and rocks....
by Jeff | Jul 12, 2022 | 0 Comments
Before I get started on today’s fishing adventures here in Italy, I want to re-introduce our Team Manager, Jerry Arnold. He’s been on this blog many times - with every World Masters Fly Fishing Championship along with a couple trips to Mexico over the years. Plain...
by Jeff | Jul 11, 2022 | 1 Comment
We got in so late last night it was weird waking up. When I first opened my eyes I didn’t know where the heck I was. Then came a deep snore from Pete in the bed next to me and it dawned on me, we are here in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy for a week of practice before...
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!
