Biography of Captain Jake Jordan
Captain Jake Jordan; has spent over half of a century traveling the world in search of large game fish on light tackle and fly. He is an excellent educator and communicator, who loves to excite anglers with stories regarding his many spectacular fishing adventures.
Jordan is a world-famous Florida Keys tarpon guide and world-renowned big game fly angler. He was the founder and host of "The Bonefish School", a saltwater fly-fishing school held several times a year at the Peace & Plenty Bonefish Lodge in the Bahamas during 1972 through 2012. During the 40 years of operation more than two thousand students attended and caught their first ever Bonefish on Fly.
Captain Jake is a consultant to several first-rate fly-fishing lodges throughout the world along with a boat manufacturer and several world class fly tackle companies. He designs customized fly-fishing vacation packages and fly-fishing schools, for anglers throughout the world.
The retired CEO of STH Reels USA, and the founder of the "World Class Angler" (an early Florida Keys fly shop), located in Marathon, Florida, Jordan is a well-known speaker, author, and consultant to the boating, fishing, and fly-fishing industries. Jake has authored and or been featured in dozens of articles in most major sport fishing magazines. He is considered an expert in all areas of big game sport fishing and fly fishing. Captain Jordan has also appeared in many fishing related television productions. He is an FFF certified fly-casting instructor, an original charter member of the FFF advisory committee, a life member of IGFA, and a charter member of the "I.G.F.A. Certified Captains" organization. Jordan is a charter and life member of the CCA, a life member of TU, and a life member of "CLFF" Cape Lookout Fly Fishers.
Captain Jake Jordan is the recipient of a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from CCA for his work on costal conservation from Texas to North Carolina. He won the "Master Angler Award" from the CLFF three years in a row in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Captain Jake also received the "Chester H. Wolfe Outstanding Sportsmanship Award" from the "International Game Fish Association" in 2022, one of less than a dozen people to ever receive this award. Captain Jake Jordan was inducted into the Southern Fly Fishing Hall of Fame in May of 2023, he was the first person ever inducted in the recreation devision, for Salt Water Fly Fishing.
Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures, Jordan's company, for more than five decades has operated several charter boats out of Marathon in the Florida Keys and several other locations. At 81 years of age, Captain Jake continues actively guiding fly anglers in search of Tarpon during April, and May, in the Florida Keys. Jake also currently operates fly fishing charters during October and November aboard his Jones Brothers cape fisherman vessel "Fly Reel" near his retirement home in coastal North Carolina.
He also owns and operates "The Sailfish School" a Fly-Fishing School designed to teach anglers how to catch Billfish on a fly rod. "The Sailfish School" is held at most of the world class lodges in Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. Jordan often brags that during the last 30 years of operation, his “Sailfish School” has never had a student who did not catch a Sailfish on a fly! Jake and three of his students released thirty sailfish on fly in one day, and as many as seventy-six in one three-day session of "The Sailfish School". During his lifetime, Jordan has caught more than 3,000 Billfish on fly, including over 2,700 sailfish and more than three hundred marlin on fly.
Jordan's "Marlin School" (Fly Fishing for Marlin) is held at many locations throughout the world each year including The Galapagos Islands, Australia, Hawaii, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, along with many other exotic locations. During the last ten seasons Jordan’s “Costa Rica Blue Marlin Fly-Fishing Schools,” in Los Suenos, CR have proved to be extraordinarily successful with 96 percent of his clients catching between 1 and as many as 19 Blue Marlin per school. As of October 2023, Jake Jordan has caught and released 88 Pacific Blue Marlin along with 7 Atlantic Blue Marlin, 5 Black Marlin, 26 White Marlin, and 213 Striped Marlin alongwith 3 Spearfish, 81 Atlantic Sailfish and 2709 Pacific Sailfish on fly while using IGFA rules for fly fishing! Anglers at Jordan's "Costa Rica Blue Marlin Fly Fishing Schools" operated aboard the vessel "Dargin Fly", have averaged catching between two and three Blue Marlin per day, since starting operations.
Captain Jake appears as a speaker at many fly-fishing shows, boat shows, and fishing clubs every year. He has excellent PowerPoint and Video presentations about: Catching Billfish on fly, fly fishing coastal North Carolina, Fly fishing for Trout in the US, Argentina, Chile, and Alaska, Atlantic salmon fly fishing in Russia, and Pacific Salmon in Alaska. His specialty is Tarpon, Permit, Bonefish, and other Game fish Species of the Florida Keys. Jordan's Billfish presentations are World Class. The favorite and most popular presentation during the last several years is: History, of development and advancement of tackle, techniques, rigging, along with seasons, locations, captains, crews, boats, for catching all nine species of Billfish, using IGFA rules, and twenty pound or lighter class tippet on fly. Captain Jordan specializes in coaching Big Game Fly Anglers in catching the exceedingly rare IGFA Royal Billfish Slam on Fly. As of 2023 there are 9 IGFA "Royal Billfish Slams" and all nine were caught by Captain Jordan's clients using tackle and techniques designed by Captain Jake Jordan.
