Micro Structure, Shadow Lines, and Ambush Predators in Fly Fishing
Allen Campbell, a weekend warrior and fly tying addict, on micro structure, shadow lines and ambush predators, and how he fell for fly fishing.
Allen Campbell, a weekend warrior and fly tying addict, on micro structure, shadow lines and ambush predators, and how he fell for fly fishing.
Colorado Springs angler Jesse Gardziel researches his fisheries to find trophy trout on purpose. He explains how that research turns into big fish.
False albacore, striped bass and bluefish all move through Montauk on the fall run - a Montauk guide on what the migration brings, and what a freshwater angler needs to...
Jeff Johnson, president of Colorado's High Plains Drifters Fly Fishing Club and a devoted carp angler, on club life and fishing for carp on the fly.
Two years of throwing six-inch plugs at stream trout taught this angler what triggers a trophy fish - and why big articulated streamers made instant sense when they arrived.
Christian Bacasa guests on Dave Stewart's Wet Fly Swing Podcast to cover Dupeafish, owning the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast, and planning DIY trips.
It takes four to six years to grow a 12-inch Ozark smallmouth. A longtime guide on the conservation math, and on the fly attitude and pauses that make big river...
A forestry scientist traces the word "loop" back to an 1885 book, argues a fly cast is really a wave, and explains the slow spey method he built out of...
A Costa Rica guide breaks down machaca on fruit flies, the vertical cast the fish demand, and why muddy water is the best water on a jungle river float.
A Colorado guide explains the triple nymph rig he runs on the upper Colorado, the difference between live and dead mysis patterns, and how to wade a big freestone.
After fifteen years away from fishing, one Orvis class restarted everything: a Mayfly Project chapter, a move to Colorado, rowing school, and a first season guiding.
A self-taught fly tier and artist explains how isolating single steps, collecting 75 tying books, and studying masters instead of popular accounts built his skill set.
An aquatic ecologist explains how insect samples are used to grade river health, why salmonflies take three years underwater, and what that means for nymph selection.
A Navy veteran who found his way out of PTSD and homelessness through a river, then turned that recovery into a nonprofit putting veterans and youth on threatened water together.
Ben Kraushaar is an artist who creates epic adventures caught on film for conservation, and he brings several wild stories from those outings to the podcast.
A father and daughter who once spent 90 minutes smashing through ice with their oars to reach open water, and who now rig every rod on the bank before the...
The author of Fly Tying for Everyone on slender perdigons, trailing-shuck emergers, and the Icelandic lake where a nine-pound brown trout counts as a small one.
Eleven seasons on the Green River out of Dutch John, distilled into flows, hatch timing, 14-foot leaders, foam-headed streamers and the safety gear that lives under a guide's seat.
An early member of the University of Mississippi fly fishing club on how it was built, what the national program demanded in return, and why the alumni network turned out...
Twenty-plus years of Seychelles flats work, broken down species by species: leaders, knots, retrieves, tide windows and the fly changes that finally cracked Indo-Pacific permit.