Captain Jacob “Jake” Jordan was born in West Region, United Kingdom and lives in Havelock, North Carolina. Jordan is a world-famous Florida Keys tarpon guide and world-renowned big game fly angler. Captain Jake has spent over half of a century traveling the world in search of large game fish on light tackle and fly. He has authored and or been featured in dozens of articles in most major sport fishing magazines and is considered an expert in all areas of big game sport fishing and fly fishing. Captain Jake has also appeared in many fishing related television productions.
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 four decades 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. His specialty is Tarpon, Permit, Bonefish, and other Game fish Species of the Florida Keys.
Jake Jordan’s Fishing Adventures, his company, for more than five decades has operated several charter boats out of Marathon in the Florida Keys and other locations. Even at over 80 years of age, Captain Jake continues actively guiding fly anglers in search of Tarpon during April, and May, in the Florida Keys. Jake 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. Jordan’s “Marlin Schools” (Fly Fishing for Marlin) is held in 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 30 years of operation, his “Sailfish School” has never had a student at his Sailfish School in Guatemala who did not catch a Sailfish on a fly.
Captain Jake is an FFI certified fly-casting instructor, a charter member of the FFI advisory committee, a life member of IGFA, and a charter member of the “I.G.F.A. Certified Captains” organization. He 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 is the recipient of a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from CCA for his work on coastal conservation from Texas to North Carolina. He won the “Master Angler Award” from the CLFF three years in a row in 2008 to 2010. Captain Jake also received the “Chester H. Wolfe Outstanding Sportsmanship Award” from the “International Game Fish Association” in 2022.
Captain Jake Jordan – Inducted in the Recreation category for his public speaking, writing, teaching and consulting to the boating, fishing, and fly-fishing industries.
