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Two longtime friends and mediocre fly fishers discuss their love of the sport and recount stories of their days on the river.
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Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Hopefully, your next fly fishing trip is sooner rather than later. It has been a year of kicking the proverbial can of what we love to do down the road. The pandemic has delayed or postponed indefinitely a lot of plans. This next week, however, we plan to hit our favorite rivers in Montana. In …
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Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
The fly fishing etiquette mindset is a way of thinking that should permeate the actions of every fly fisher. In this episode, we read a thread from Trout Unlimited’s online forum about a fly fisher who was, in our opinion, quasi-bullied out of fishing on the Madison by four fishers. With the influx of new …
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Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Fly fishing success is not just about your amazing chops: precision casting, reading the river, and overall fly fishing genius. There are factors out of your control that affect whether you catch fish. In this episode, we identify seven factors that may affect your day on the river. One factor is barometric pressure. Another is …
Continue reading "251: Key Factors in Your Fly Fishing Success"
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Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Fishing the film begins with a different mindset. We often think first about fishing on top of the surface or at the bottom of the river. In this episode, we discuss the “film” mindset” and offer four strategies for greater fly fishing success. One strategy is simply to let your soggy dry fly drift submerged …
Continue reading "250: Strategies for Fishing the Film"
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Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Fish pics are ubiquitous. Instagram has every angle of fish pic you can imagine. But there’s more to shoot when you’re on the river than just pictures of your big brown trout. In this episode, we offer up twelve tips to photograph your entire fly fishing experience. We begin the episode with what is perhaps …
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Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
If you’ve never felt the violent strike of a brown trout on a streamer, you haven’t really lived. In this guide to fly fishing with streamers, we interview Dave Kumlien, Montana outfitter and former fly shop owner, on a wide ranging topics related to fishing streamers. This truly is the complete guide to fly fishing …
Continue reading "248: The Complete Guide to Fly Fishing with Streamers – with Dave Kumlien"
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Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Salmo trutta tend to dominate wherever they live. Also known as brown trout, salmo trutta often push out brook trout – or at least push them upstream. Brown trout thrive in warmer waters. In this episode we regale each other with stories of catching large brown trout (our love relationship) and also discuss the downsides …
Continue reading "247: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Salmo Trutta"
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Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
“Duh! How did I not know this after all these years?” There are so many aspects of fly fishing that simply escaped us during the first few years of fly fishing. Frankly, we’re still learning new hacks or tips that seem obvious in retrospect. In this episode we offer up the first seven hacks or …
Continue reading "246: 7 Under Explained Aspects of Fly Fishing, Part 1"
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Dave and Steve in Winter
We're best friends. And each thinks he is slightly better at fly fishing than the other guy. Somehow, as different as we are (Steve folds his underwear and organizes them in his drawer in a military formation), we've managed to stay friends since college.We love the outdoors. Love our days on the river. And we love fishing together. Our podcast, we hope, communicates the warmth and joy of our friendship.