The Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Archive
The Fly Fishing Insider Podcast is a long-form interview show hosted by Christian Bacasa, with 368 episodes recorded since 2019. Guests are working guides, lodge owners, fly tyers, competitive anglers, biologists and manufacturers. Every episode has a written summary here, and the whole archive is browsable by region, species, water type and topic.
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How Hunters and Anglers Play a Role in Preserving Wildlife
Hunting and fishing license sales and equipment excise taxes fund the habitat work and public access anglers rely on. A…
Bass Fishing in the Mississippi River
The upper Mississippi above the Twin Cities fishes like a big, clear trout stream that happens to hold smallmouth. A full-time…
The Mission to Catch All Salmonoid Species
Tad Murdock is chasing all 50 recognized salmonid species on the fly, and shares what the hunt has taught him about species…
Fly Fishing Journey and How He Keeps His Passion Alive
Joel Stoehr traces his path from Catskills trout to saltwater in New York City, redfish in Louisiana and tarpon in Key West, and…
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…
Trout Angler Destinations Recommended by Orvis
Seth Berger of Orvis walks through his favorite fishing destinations for trout anglers looking to expand their horizons, from…
Pennsylvania Muskie Fly Fishing
Dominic Petruzzi breaks down fly fishing for muskie in Pennsylvania moving water, plus how he designs predator flies around…
The Importance of the Captain's Position in Raft, Drift or Jet Boat
Most fishing boats are not built with the rower in mind, so captains end up on a cooler with the oars at shoulder height. Raising…
The Three Tier Approach and Simplification from a Competition Angler
Competitive fisherman Mike Komara explains how competition fly fishing works, why he fishes a single fly, and how he simplifies…
Marsh Sessions and How to Start a Fly Fishing Community
Bimonthly brewery gatherings, a fall festival that drew 450 people, and nearly $4,000 raised for conservation - built with no…
Catching Fish on a Difficult Fishery and a Dry Dropper Tip
The Upper Delaware holds so many bugs that trout can afford to be picky. A guide explains the presentations that work there, and…
Belize, Argentina, etc, Why They Don't Have to be Once In A Lifetime
A DIY week in Belize with a golf cart and Google Maps, and six days of topwater golden dorado from a river cruiser in Argentina -…
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What is the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast about?
The Fly Fishing Insider Podcast is a conversation show, not a tips show. Each episode is a long interview with somebody who does this for a living: a guide who fishes one river 200 days a year, a lodge owner who has watched a fishery change over decades, a fly tyer who developed a pattern that is now in everyone's box, a biologist working on a river restoration. Christian Bacasa hosts, and has run the show since taking it over from its original host, Greg Keenan, in June 2021.
Who hosts the podcast?
Christian Bacasa hosts the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast and owns the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast, Blog and Shop under Bacasa Industries LLC, based in Park City, Utah. He has roughly 25 years of fly fishing experience, guides in Utah, and has fished and hosted anglers in Alaska, Belize, Mexico, the Florida Keys and across the American West. Episodes recorded before June 2021 were hosted by Greg Keenan, and those episode pages credit him. Read the full story of how the show started.
How are the episode write-ups put together?
Each write-up opens with the short answer to the question the episode asks, embeds the episode so you can listen or watch on the page, and breaks the conversation into the specific questions it answers. The deepest write-ups are built from the episode transcript; the rest are built from the show notes. Every page names the guest, links the related reading on this site, and carries the episode's own structured data.
Where can you listen?
The show is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the FFIP YouTube channel, plus most other podcast apps through the standard feed. Written summaries live here on the site.