Jeff Wagner is the current head of Mayfly Outdoors. Mayfly Outdoors is currently made up of some of the most iconic brands in the fly fishing industry, including Ross and Abel Reels, Renzetti and Dyna-King vises, Airflo Fly lines, and Airlite fly rods. Mayfly Outdoors is a family-owned B Corp headquartered in Montrose, Colorado, with manufacturing locations in California, Florida, and Brecon, Wales, UK. While the majority of what Mayfly makes and sells services the fly fishing industry, they also manufacture products for medical and other industries.
They are passionate about sustainability and manufacturing in a way that honors the resources they encourage people to use. Prior to Mayfly Outdoors, Jeff held positions at VF with Smartwool and Icebreaker, Winston fly rods, and Cabela’s. His BS is in Biology, and he spent time with the National Park Service working in native fish restoration with a youthful passion he has never grown out of for fish and fisheries.
He also holds an MBA, which he earned from Colorado State University. Jeff specializes in Operations and Lean Manufacturing with a LSS Black Belt. Jeff is also a passionate angler. He has written for Fly Fusion magazine for almost 10 years and contributed to Flyfisher magazine and the Federation of Fly Fishers for more than 20 years. He is a Master Certified Fly Casting Instructor with the FFI, and in a distant memory, guided and worked in fly shops on the Front Range of Colorado.
