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Episode 66 – David Bishop
I got the chance to speak with David Bishop this week. Listen in as we discuss fishing at two-years-old, the beauty of casting, working for yourself, running lodges, the Gaspe Fly Company, Atlantic Salmon, river ecology, the outdoors resurgence that came with COVID, river etiquette, and canoes.
Episode 65 – Mark Velligan
For this episode I’m joined by Mark Velligan. Listen in as we talk fishing as a child, microbiology, Manhattans, starting spey, tarpon, trying to move to New Zealand, shad fishing, becoming cyborgs, kaiju pike, playing your friends, more tarpon, and goat portraits.
East to West, West to East: March 3rd Webinar
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How do Great Lakes steelhead fisheries differ from those on the West Coast? How are they similar? And how can you prepare to travel from one to the other to fish?
North Umpqua Coalition asks ODFW to Reduce Harm to Imperiled Summer Steelhead Populations
“The current scientific literature clearly shows substantial adverse impacts to wild Steelhead populations from interactions with hatchery fish. In addition to reduced fitness from genetic integration among the spawning populations, other factors; such as competition, predation, disease transmission, and altered predator survival and behavior begin as soon as juveniles are released into the natural environment” says Jeff Dose, longtime Fisheries Biologist with the Umpqua National Forest.
Mossy’s Fly Shop: Addiction to the Swing
Mossy’s Fly Shop provides two-handed expertise in the heart of Alaska
Episode 64 – Greg Pearson
This week I got the chance to talk with Greg Pearson. We went over how he got started fishing with his grandfather, driving to Alaska and catching his first steelhead, placid animal attacks, repping fishing gear, Illustration, birding, painting, and of course, ladders.
Icons: Mark Bachmann
If wild steelhead need a boost from humans, it would be to give them more space.
Outfitters North
“It’s great to see the fly fishing community putting more of a focus on us as Great Lakes steelheaders and designing these products for the way we fish our Great Lakes streams and rivers.”
Episode 63 – Tim Gelinas
I got the opportunity to speak with Tim Gelinus, of Farlex Reels, and great time. Such a great time in fact that we decided to have it twice and record it once. We discussed growing up fishing cutthroat, big families, raising kids, getting the steelhead bug, the excitement of teaching yourself, click and pawl reels […]
Guilty Pleasure: Robert Meiser builds ’em stiff in the tip with junk in the trunk.
I call his rods the John Wesley Hardins of the West… the true grit cowboy that prevailed
Episode 62 – Ian Tattam
Welcome to the first episode of 2022. I’m joined by Ian Tattam of the ODFW. We get right into it with his first salmon and steelhead, schooling, the relationship between steelhead and beavers, tagging fish, river closings, ocean survival rates, smallmouth bass, and so much more.