Turning Guiding to a Future Career
Dan Hoffman, a former fishing guide and chief of police, explains how to turn the transferable skills of guiding into a next career, plus fishing Alaska's Bristol Bay.
Dan Hoffman, a former fishing guide and chief of police, explains how to turn the transferable skills of guiding into a next career, plus fishing Alaska's Bristol Bay.
Alaska's big rainbows are almost never caught on a dry fly. A lodge owner walks through the real season, from spring streamers to fall lake-run fish, and what the trip...
Five trips into the Amazon, a marine biologist turned consultant describes seven sport species in one stretch of river, the gear that survives them, and the deforestation reshaping it all.
A Bristol Bay guide walks through the Alaska season stage by stage: early streamers and mice, sockeye arriving in July, the egg drop, then flesh.
The founders of a foster-care fly fishing nonprofit break down what connection really means on a tight line rig, and why an oversized indicator hides most of your bites.
Kenai guide Dallas Voss breaks down year-round rainbow trout, salmon run timing, flossing sockeye, bears on the Russian, and why even-year pink runs make the trout fatter.
Kodie Kowitz guided Alaska for 12 seasons and now guides Michigan steelhead. He covers jig-head streamers, strip-pause retrieves, where migratory fish hold by season, and why changing flies wastes time.
How a former trucking executive turned an observation about the one-rounder women's section in a fly shop into an Alaska apparel brand built on fish art and fit.
Jon Farmer on running Midnight Sun Custom Flies out of Alaska, designing flies, working with OPST, and what comes after COVID-19 for tiers.
Naknek River rainbows eat streamers, mice and flesh flies and fight far above their length. Captain James Johnson on trout season, permit, and buying lodges.
Recorded live on location in Alaska with Bob Ledda of All Alaska Outdoors, with talk of the huge silvers the podcast crew caught on the fly rod.
AFFTA's Matt Smythe on why IFTD changed, the seminars and opportunities waiting for attendees, and the A Day for Bristol Bay passion project behind #D4BB.
Dr. Bob Ladda owns All Alaska Outdoors Lodge and shares his love of Alaska, what returning clients value most, and which fish are running through the lodge season.
Kyle Shea introduces Bristol Adventures, the four Alaska lodges it operates, and what a guided fishing day with the crew at each lodge involves.
Kyle Shea of Bristol Adventures on the four Alaska lodges the company operates, the water each one guides, and why Alaska is such a strong fishery.
Kyle Shea of Kyle Shea Fly Fishing and Bristol Adventures on a lifelong guiding career, life in Alaska, and writing over 1500 fishing blogs himself.
Captain Chad Bryson of Chad Bryson Fishing on guiding Alaska one week and Patagonia the next, and what a guest can expect on a day with his crew.