As a Colorado kid, Jean found niche hobbies to be a natural part of her upbringing. Rather than playing sports, she went Nordic skiing and hiking on weekends, mucked stalls in exchange for horseback riding lessons, built a backyard ramp to learn to skate on, and spent many overnights car camping in ski resort parking lots and down dirt roads. Jean's fly fishing journey began a decade ago—thanks to a course at Colorado Mountain College, and her passion for fishing has only grown with time. It drove her to a roaming lifestyle, living all across the country—from the serene banks of many famed western trout rivers to, more recently, the lively saltwater flats and marshes of the Southeast. Immersing herself in new and different communities and learning a fishery through firsthand experience has widened her perspective—in ways she never imagined.
