Jason Renfro

Pro Staff

Jason Renfro, Extremely Expert Fly Fishing Enthusiast Extraordinaire Ad Infinitum and QED

If Jason could make a good enough living at fly fishing to support his sybaritic angling lifestyle he would; he can’t, so instead he loans people money at exorbitant interest rates. In other words, he is a banker. Since most of his time is spent either contemplating new fly fishing techniques, how he can become better at the techniques he already knows, or actually putting those techniques into practice catching more fish than the buddies he fishes with, it’s difficult to know when he finds time to even balance his own checkbook, much less balance the bank’s books, but he does.

Jason has an interest in all kinds of fly fishing quarry, so long as that quarry is trout, or at least of the onchorynchus or salmo genus. If forced by his friends he will acquiesce to swing a classic fly on an autumn steelhead river.

For trout Jason prefers the dry fly, which is why his nickname is, “Mr. Drysdale,” a nod to both his favored technique and profession.

Jason--Mr. Drysdale-- had to have a friend write this bio, as he heard that there might be a few skwalla stones hatching on the Yuba River today and he wants to be the first angler to get a skwalla dry fly eat on that river.

On top of all that, Jason has one of the prettiest casting strokes this side of Joan Wulff. This fact is probably due to the fact that when he isn’t on the river and is supposed to be banking, he is on the roof of the bank practicing his casting.

Sometimes Jason can be found behind the counter at Fly Fishing Specialties in Citrus Heights. Ostensibly he is there to help customers, but actually his presence there is mostly for reconnaissance to wheedle info from the more informed clientele.