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If someone says the word fly fishing, where do you go in your head? In today's episode, New York Times writer Peter Kaminsky takes us...

Episode Show Notes In this episode on classic salmon fly tying, I sat down with Marvin Nolte, a guy who’s been at the vise since...

Episode Show Notes There’s a whole world of trout food drifting beneath the surface that most anglers never fully notice. Tiny insects, short-lived hatches, and...

Henry's Lake fly fishing has a reputation that stretches across North America. Big trout, shallow water, legendary hatches, and a history filled with anglers...

In this episode, we dig into the science of a perfect fly cast with legendary casting instructor Ed Jaworowski. We talk about rod loading,...

Picture this. You’re in Colorado with mountains in every direction, and the South Platte running just across the road. In this episode, I sit...

Episode Show Notes Fly fishing doesn’t fall apart because it’s too difficult. It falls apart because most anglers treat it like random casting instead of...

If you’ve ever swung a fly for steelhead and wondered where that pattern really came from, this one goes deep. In this episode, we...

Progress in fly fishing often happens when you stop treating techniques as separate lanes and start combining them. In this episode, Brian DeLoach shares the hybrid system he’s developed by blending Euro nymphing principles with heavy jig-style streamer fishing to efficiently target predatory fish. Brian explains why stout leaders and heavier rods protect fish during the fight, why drift matters more than tippet visibility, and how changing retrieves—including dead drifts, jig motions, and active strips—can trigger aggressive eats. If you’ve ever wondered how to fish streamers more efficiently without sacrificing control, this episode gives you a complete system to try.

Today, we’re digging into how fly rods are really designed. Not the marketing side, but what really goes into the design, the testing, and...