Fly Fishing Podcasts

Australia's Peter Morse talks about the four species of bonefish found around his native land, the jaw-dropping power of New Guinea Bass, the amazing species of fish found on the Australian mainland, and wade fishing in the land of crocodiles.

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Interviewer: Zach Matthews | Itinerant Angler

Podcast Excerpt: "The New Guinea bass is the pit bull terrier of the fish world. It lives in dense river cover. It's a freshwater species. There's very little known about it actually, scientifically. It grows to 50, 60 perhaps 70 pounds. It's a member of what you would call the snapper family. A cubera snapper would be a close relative. So imagine a cubera snapper living in dense, fallen jungle trees that have tumbled into the river amongst rock bars in these big rivers, and basically it eats whatever it wants to. There are two species: one is the black bass and the other is the spot-tail bass, and I recall when I was guiding up there a fellow landed a spot-tail bass about 35 pounds. And we used to lip-gaff these things and lift them into the boat for photographs, and as it came in this 35-pound bass spewed up a whole possum."

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James Babb is the long-time fishing columnist and now editor of Gray's Sporting Journal. He's also a successful author with a finely tuned sense of humor. In this podcast he offers insight on the trajectory of sporting and angling literature, as well as the effects of Ad Men on publishing.

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Interviewer: Zach Matthews | Itinerant Angler

Podcast Excerpt: "For better or worse, most magazines today are advertisers' magazines. Gray's has a lot of advertising today, more than I would like to see, but, you know, we have to pay the bills. But it's a readers magazine -- it was started as a reader's magazine, as an allergic reaction, I think, to this kind of commercialization and dumbing down of the literature. I mean, advertisers aren't interested in an intelligent readership, they're interested in a docile readership, and Gray's has always, from its inception, gone for that intelligent readership."

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From Lefty Kreh's early days as an outdoors journalist to his many second-career accomplishments as a photographer, marksman, writer, and fly fisher, this well-traveled angler has been an inspiration to generations. Listen as he recounts his career in post-War biological weapon manufacture, demonstration marksmanship, and fly rod design.

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Interviewer: Zach Matthews | Itinerant Angler

Podcast Excerpt: "When I first started in the forties, I went fishing with Joe Brooks, who was the most famous fly fisherman of that time. I was so impressed with how good he was that I asked him to give me a fly casting lesson. So I drove 50 miles to Baltimore in a Model A Ford where he lived, and he selected -- and I paid for -- an outfit. And then he left town -- I'm not sure whether he left town because of my lesson or not -- but anyway I bought a fiberglass rod and was told that it would break as soon as the weather got cold because it was made of glass. They were very new then and they were very bad. They were very floppy, the modulus of the glass was not good, they were full of glue, but you could still cast them."

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Few anglers in the history of the sport have achieved mastery over their chosen specialty on the level of Simon Gawesworth. Listen in as he takes us from the origins of spey casting on the river Spey in Scotland to a common sense explanation of spey techniques, and then on to modern spey casting in the Pacific Northwest.

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Interviewer: Zach Matthews | Itinerant Angler

Podcast Excerpt: "If you want to know exactly what a spey cast is, it's a form of flycasting that changes direction and is perfect for a limited backcasting space. It kind of stems from roll casting -- if people know what a roll cast is they are halfway on the road to knowing what spey casting is. That's regardless of whether it is a single-handed roll or a two-handed roll, or a ten-foot cast or a 175-foot cast."

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