![]() ![]() My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. 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. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is. 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. 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.įrom 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 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. Say it wasn’t so! A common and tragic mistake often made when setting the hook with a dry on a huge fish. If you are looking for a little historical adventure, visit Earthquake Lake (commonly referred to as Quake Lake). Problem is, he was facing me directly and before his massive jaws completely shut on my fly I yanked it away. On my first cast to him he tried to eat it. Earthquake Lake, more commonly shortened to Quake Lake, is one of the few lakes to have been created this way in recent times. ![]() As a last attempt, I presented him a cool looking damsel dry fly. We threw everything at him – just like last year but he’d rise inches from our offerings but never take it. It is mostly within the Gallatin National Forest on US Highway 287, which follows the lake. I could see his creamy brown colored nose break the surface and sometimes his incredibly wide tail followed through. Quake Lake is located in Southwest Montana, about 30 miles northwest of West Yellowstone. Well, we were in the same spot and there was a large brown rising. His head and nose were so big that it did not look normal when he ate a small fly from the surface. When you catch a fish that big you remember every detail – where, when, what he was eating and in that giant’s case, I remembered his awkward rise. Its worth mentioning that I’m almost positive we ran across the same monster brown trout that we caught last year. It was created after an earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, with 28 fatalities. Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing ☰ Navigation Earthquake Lake Quake Lake is a lake in the western United States, on the Madison River in southwestern Montana. ![]()
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