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The official podcast of Fly Fisherman, the leading magazine of fly fishing since 1969.

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01:24:42

Legendary Capt. Paul Dixon on filming with Flip...

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2025/11/13

One of the most versatile, experienced saltwater guides of all time, Capt. Paul Dixon has spent decades fishing from Long Island to the Upper Keys, throughout the Caribbean and around the world. He caught his first striped bass in the 1970s in Newport Beach, California, he is a pioneer in East Coast sight-fishing for striped bass, a recipient of the 2022 Lefty Kreh Award for Lifetime Achievement in Conservation, and 2021 recipient of the Izaak Walton Award from the American Museum of Fly Fishing.

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01:00:59

Mike Dawes on the South Fork Initiative, Fish Camp,...

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2025/10/30

Mike Dawes is the managing partner of Westbank Anglers in Wilson, Wyoming near the town of Jackson, Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Dawes has guided for decades, and fly fished the world for species ranging from trout to exotic saltwater fish such as barracuda. He is well-known for his dedication to permit fishing and conservation. Having won multiple permit tournaments, including the Del Brown Permit Tournament and the March Merkin, Dawes sheds light on what it takes to be a permit

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01:00:53

Oliver White discusses Indifly, South Fork Lodge,...

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2025/10/16

Oliver White started as a guide then grew his career as a fly-fishing entrepreneur to build Abaco Lodge. He later co-founded the indigenous empowerment non-profit organization Indifly, and currently is co-owner of South Fork Lodge in Swan Valley, Idaho. He’s been featured in many films, most notably the YETI Presents film “A Thousand Casts” that chronicled his adventure in Bhutan while searching for the golden Masheer. An active conservationist and environmentalist, White has influenced the outdoor

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01:51:21

Tom Baltz on fly tying, fly-fishing history, and...

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2025/10/02

Tom Baltz is an Orvis Endorsed guide and recipient of the Orvis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. He guides his home waters in the Cumberland Valley area of Pennsylvania and is a renown fly tier with patterns available through Montana Fly Co. He discusses his most well-known pattern, the Baltz’s Paranymph, which has caught trout around the world. Yellow Breeches creek, LeTort Spring Run, and Big Spring creek are an integral part of the nation's fly-fishing history. Baltz dives into Cumberland

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59:08

Yvon Chouinard on tying and fishing simple pheasant...

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2025/09/18

Yvon Chouinard is a philanthropist, conservationist, climber, fly fisher, co-founder of 1% for the Planet, and founder of Patagonia. He has played a vital role in shaping the landscape of the entire outdoor community for over 40 years. He was named one of the “100 Most Influential People” by Time Magazine in 2023. He has authored numerous books such as Let My People Go Surfing, Simple Fly Fishing, and his latest book, Pheasant Tail Simplicity, co-authored with Craig Mathews, founder of Blue Ribbon

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54:42

Author Bob Rich on the movie "Looking Through Water"

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2025/09/09

Bob Rich is the author of five books, his latest “Looking Through Water” has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Michael Douglas and will be in theaters nationwide September 12, 2025. Like its predecessor “A River Runs Through It,” “Looking Through Water” is about family and how fly fishing can tear them apart or bring them closer together. Bob reveals the behind-the-scenes involved with making a movie, and the major difficulties involved with creating realism in a saltwater

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56:44

Monte Burke on World-Record Quests, Fishing "Blind"...

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2025/09/04

Monte Burke is one of the leading writers of this century and author of the new book "Rivers always Reach the Sea." Monte has fished all around the world with some of the most eclectic and influential people in the sport of fly fishing, people like Yvon Chouinard, Andy Mill, and Lefty Kreh—but he says one of his greatest privileges in life is spending a day each year fishing with “the greatest guide who ever lived” Capt. Steve Huff. In this episode of Loop to Loop, Monte spins fishing tales that

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01:22:06

Dave Zielinski on the future “age of cicadas” a...

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2025/08/21

Dave Zielinski stumbled into a periodic cicada hatch more than 20 years ago and has been chasing these massive emergences—as well as annual cicada hatches in the West—ever since. In this episode we recap the Brood XIV feasting that happened in 12 states in 2025 . . . and we look to the future. While there is no Magicicada hatch anywhere in 2026, the following year begins a 12-year “age of cicadas” where there is a periodic 13-year or 17-year cicada hatch somewhere every year for 12 years in a row

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01:17:45

Mike Komara on Muskies, Snakeheads, and CDC...

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2025/08/07

Mike Komara grew up competitive trout fishing, first with the US Youth Fly Fishing Team and most recently with the adult Fly Fishing Team USA where the team won a bronze medal at the 2025 world championships in the Czech Republic. But trout are only one piece of the puzzle for this young guide, educator, and owner of Innovative Angling. Mike also chases snakeheads in the Chesapeake, muskies in big rivers, and he’s traveled all over Argentina on a DIY adventure for golden dorado. In this episode,

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58:37

Gold-Medal Coach Josh Miller, “Don’t Change the Fly...

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2025/07/17

Josh Miller is author of the best-selling book “Euro Nymphing: Tips, Tactics, and Techniques” (2024), guide and owner of the Trout Yeah Guide Service, and head coach of the US Youth Fly Fishing Team that won gold medals in Bosnia (2023) and in the Czech Republic (2024). In July, 2025, the world championships are on the team’s home turf in Idaho and the youth team is going for a three-peat. In this episode, coach Miller discusses his introduction to fly fishing, his journey through the ranks of

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58:23

Eric Naguski, a trained entomologist, shares his...

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2025/07/02

A lot of fly fishers like to occasionally drop the Latin names of insects, and some of them are amateur entomologists with a layman’s knowledge of aquatic insects. But Eric Naguski is a trained, professional scientist with a BS in biology from Millersville University with a focus on aquatic entomology and ecology. He’s studied these bugs for more than 30 years and is one of the most meticulous fly tiers alive today. He knows that insects of the same species can vary in size and in color from stream

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01:54:43

Joe Humphreys "Mr. Penn State" Reveals what he's...

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2025/06/20

Joe Humphreys was born in 1929 and at 96 years old he is still night fishing, chasing hatches, teaching children how to cast and catch fish, and inspiring fly fishers around the world. Joe is the only person in the world to be in both the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is a coach, teacher, author, presenter, and former director of the Penn State Fly Fishing Program—which is now named after him. In this episode of Loop to Loop he sits down with Fly Fisherman

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01:10:24

Jake Villwock on the “Godfathers” of bass, favorite...

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2025/05/29

Fly tier Jake Villwock grew up the son of a commercial fisherman, and is now a Pennsylvania fly-fishing guide for smallmouth, Great Lakes steelhead, and spring creek trout. Jake is also a fly-tying innovator and author of the book Smallmouth Bass Flies Top to Bottom. Jake and Fly Fisherman editor/publisher Ross Purnell debate the age-old question, “What’s better, bass or trout?” They talk about frog patterns for trout and bass, the “Godfathers of Bass” (Clouser, Kraft, and Whitlock), and dive into

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01:24:41

Tim Cammisa

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2025/05/02

Tim Cammisa has been a guide on the Delaware River, a professional fly tier for 30 years, and his hundreds and hundreds of videos on YouTube and other social media platforms have reached around the globe with more than 17 million views and counting. His background as a school teacher makes him one of the most popular presenters and instructors in person at Fly Fishing Shows, on-line, and on the printed page. Tim’s latest book is tying Euro Nymphs and other Competition Favorites, and Tim sits down

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01:20:04

Blane Chocklett: fly-tying innovator & guide, reveals...

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2025/04/11

In episode three, editor/publisher Ross Purnell chats with longtime FLY FISHERMAN magazine contributor Blane Chocklett about how he got started in fly fishing, his early influencers Harrison Steeves and Steve Hiner, how he created the Game Changer, new patterns that will be revealed this summer, his new role as a fly-tying entrepreneur, and his decades-long relationship with Lefty Kreh. Blane is also an ambassador for the American Saltwater Guides Association. We dig into their efforts to fund

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01:23:49

Jay Nichols

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2025/03/25

Jay Nichols has been an editor, publisher, photographer, videographer, and author for more than 25 years and has produced some of the most iconic and influential fly-fishing books, including “Casting with Lefty Kreh” (2008). In this episode, we sit down with Jay to discuss his directorial debut in the documentary “Lefty: The Greatest of All Time” Premiering March 27 at the Weinberg Center. The conversation starts with his upbringing, education, his journey in fly fishing, and swings into his

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01:16:09

Ed Jaworowski

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2025/03/13

Author and fly-casting coach Ed Jaworowski has been teaching and instructing for 45+ years, and before he took up fly casting he was a competitive surf caster. He wrote two seminal books on fly casting: The Cast (2005) and Perfecting the Cast (2021). He is also the author of Troubleshooting the Cast (1999) and co-author with Bob Popovics of the fly-tying masterpiece Pop Fleyes (2014). On today’s episode we talk to Ed about his five-part 2025 casting series in Fly Fisherman magazine titled Functional

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