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.
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Alaska Will Change Forever: Go Now
Alaska, a land renowned for its wild, untouched landscapes and abundant wildlife, offers some of the most spectacular fly fishing experiences in the world. But with increasing popularity and looming...
Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Episodes
Alaska Dry Fly Season and Not Moving as an Angler
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...
Amazon Fly Fishing and Preservation
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.
Alaska Fly Fishing Opportunities
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.
Bull Trout, Alaska Guiding and the Mayfly Project
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.
Is the Kenai River Worth It? Alaska Fly Fishing
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.
How to Streamer Fish for Migratory Fish
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.
Episode 73 - Linda Leary - Fishe Wear the Alaska brand that's fun & functorial.
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.
Episode 64 - Jonathan Farmer, Owner, Midnight Sun Custom Flies.
Jon Farmer on running Midnight Sun Custom Flies out of Alaska, designing flies, working with OPST, and what comes after COVID-19 for tiers.
Episode 39 - Captain James Johnson - A Remote Call from the Naknek River in Alaska.
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.
Episode 31 - Bob Ledda - Owner - Alaska Outdoors Lodge - Live on Location
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.
Episode 27 - Matt Smythe of AFFTA talks about IFTD
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.
GDF 16 All Alaska Outdoors,
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.
GDF 08: Kyle Shea PT 1
Kyle Shea introduces Bristol Adventures, the four Alaska lodges it operates, and what a guided fishing day with the crew at each lodge involves.
GDF 09: Kyle Shea PT 2
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 & Bristol Adventures
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.
GDF 06: Captain Chad Bryson
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.