Jesse Lance Robbins

Jesse Lance Robbins is an essayist, creative writer, and journalist whose work has appeared in The Drake, The Flyfish Journal, Swing the Fly, Atlantic Salmon Journal, Modern Huntsman, and TROUT, among others. Jesse has worked in and lived various facets of fly fishing since high school—from fly shop staff, trout bum, guide, casting instructor, trip host, and writer to tackle design and development, marketing, travel, and sales; for over a decade, he worked in-house at Sage, Redington, RIO Products, and Fly Water Travel. A frequent reader and organizer of the Writers on the Fly event series, he now works in nonprofit fisheries, river, and water conservation, connecting people with the places they love, and the work being done to protect and restore them. Jesse and his partner live near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers in Oregon with their cache of old boats, timeless books, acoustic guitars, and always-strung fly rods.