Podcast Episodes

Ten tips on making your fishing writing better, with Dave Karczynski

Dave is one of the best young voices in fly fishing [38:14]. He's the real deal—he is a fishy guy and can handle a fly rod with the best of them, but…

1 year, 6 months ago

How Agriculture and Trout Unlimited Work Together, with Cameron Aker

  Many of our trout waters run through agricultural areas. We need food and clean water and we'd like to fish for trout in these waters, but sometime…

1 year, 6 months ago

New Tips on Playing and Releasing Trout, with vs Jim McLennan

  I often get questions about the proper way to play and release trout and I invited Jim McClennan [42:51] to talk about his tips and his philosophy…

1 year, 7 months ago

Creating New Trout Streams, with Chris Wood of Trout Unlimited

Well, maybe we're not creating new trout streams, but we are creating waters that now support trout and cold, clean water by mitigating abandoned min…

1 year, 7 months ago

What You Get When You Upgrade Your Fly Rod, with Shawn Combs

What benefits do you get when you upgrade from a $40 Big Box store rod to a Clearwater or Encounter?  How much better is a Recon rod, and will you se…

1 year, 7 months ago

How to Fly Fish from a Paddleboard, with Peter Laurelli

Peter Laurelli [40:07] is a film-maker and fly fisher, and specializes in fly fishing from a paddleboard.  And not in just any place—Peter fly fish…

1 year, 8 months ago

Backcast: Casts for Difficult Trout

This episode was originally published on January 27th, 2022.

This week, my guest is Orvis casting guru Pete Kutzer [47:31], and we talk about casts f…

1 year, 8 months ago

Backcast: Winter Fishing Tips from Boulder, with Antonio Rodrigues

This week's show is a Backcast episode from January 8th, 2021.

This week, we're continuing our series on winter fly fishing for trout.  I interview A…

1 year, 8 months ago

Backcast: Hatchery Trout vs Wild, Pressured vs Remote

Originally posted February 5. 2012.

In the fly box this week, we talk about where fly tying materials come from, getting wet flies to swing deeper, f…

1 year, 8 months ago

How to get Started in Trout Spey, with Pete Kutzer

Any kind of two-handed fishing is confusing for those of us who mostly fish with a single-handed rod. I asked the great Pete Kutzer [37:34]to simplif…

1 year, 8 months ago