Episode Details

Outdoor Ruhls Podcast — Episode 50

“From Sea to Shining Sea”

Host: Mike Ruhl
Guests/Co-Hosts: Matt Ruhl, Mark Ruhl, and Tim “GT” Dodge

Episode Summary

From the Chesapeake to Alaska to Ontario, the Ruhls recap a whirlwind late-season run of fishing adventures (and misadventures). Mark and Matt debrief a steamy, low-wind week in Cape Charles, VA—including a shredded trailer tire, a bunk falling off, and Matt’s personal-best redfish (~43 lb). GT heads to Alaska’s Alagnak River (ATA Lodge) for silvers, dollies, and rainbows—with fly-outs, bears at arm’s length, and the world’s coldest accidental wader bath. Matt closes with a four-day bass tournament on White Lake, Ontario, winning back-to-back with a mixed bag of smallmouth and largemouth, plus bonus walleye, pike, and a football-size perch. The crew talk salmon species and their many common names, splake (brook × lake trout hybrids), acid-rain recovery lakes, and what’s next: muskies, ice season, and a Cabo billfish Christmas.

Chapter Guide (approx.)

00:21 — Welcome + why the “season wrap-up”… wasn’t

02:20 — Cape Charles prep: Pro-Line starter fix, Honda water pump delay → Plan B: Poppy/Matt’s 19' Lund

07:15 — Highway chaos: tire tread peels, fender skitters, bunk goes bye-bye (zip-tie rescue)

12:40 — On-water results: keeper flounder, trout, croaker/whiting/grey trout; tough heat & no wind

16:45 — Matt’s PB redfish on artificials (deep water jig bite)

21:10 — Sheepshead plans vs. reality; why hot weeks hurt the bite

24:00 — Looking ahead: earlier June week for cobia opener

28:05 — GT’s Alaska week: Anchorage → King Salmon → ATA Lodge on the Alagnak

31:30 — Jet boats, empty river miles, fly-out to the Kulik River (egg patterns for rainbows)

35:15 — Salmon crash course: kings/chinook, sockeye/red, coho/silver, pink/humpy, chum/dog

38:10 — Bears, brain-bites & roe snacks; GT falls in, still lands the silver

42:59 — (Reconnect) Tournament fishing vs. fun fishing: w