About Outdoor Gear Nerds

Jeff is a self-taught angler with 15 years on the water, no mentor, no guide, just years of trial and error figuring it out himself. He grew up camping and hiking, so the outdoors were never a hobby he picked up later in life, they were just always there. Before fishing became his full time work, he spent 15 years in the fitness industry, including six years running his own gym, where his job was teaching coaches and business owners how to sell honestly instead of pushing people into things they didn't need. That same instinct, tell people the truth even when a sale is on the line, is exactly what he brought into this business. Jeff married his high school sweetheart in 2009, and the two of them are raising two daughters together.

Paul has also been fishing for 15 years, self-taught like Jeff, and bought his first fishing kayak in 2014, which is what pulled him fully into the kayak fishing world. He's been camping, hiking, backpacking, and hunting since high school, so testing gear in rough conditions isn't a job for him, it's just how he's always spent his time outside. He's a lifelong outdoorsman first and a reviewer second, and if a product claims to be tough, he's the one who wants to go find its breaking point. Paul is married and a father of two.