Episode 171 - Daniel Ritz, Rick Kustich, and Spey Nation

This week I'm speaking with Scott Howell and Katie Falkenberg of the Rogue River Restoration Council. We discuss their initial starts to fishing, Katie's photojournalism background and her humbleness, Scott's journey from building fish ladders in the dead of night to doing it officially, his first gravel restoration effort, just how simple and small restoration efforts can be while still having great effect, and so much more.

This week the first ever guest returns, Adrian Cortes. We have a fantastic time discussing his love for low holing, being like a heron or another bird, being an intruder in nature, his rational fear of serial killer otters, fish hocking loogies, the glory of gases, and some fun fishing stories.

This week I'm joined by Dan Gates. We jump right in to talking about his latest article for Swing the Fly, when he noticed a change on the river, his three fish limit, the business of the outdoors, finding more outdoor hobbies and birding, easy mistakes we all make, the need for more eyes on our rivers, and so much more.

This week I'm joined by Rick Kustich and Daniel Ritz and we're talking Spey Nation coming up on August 7 - 9. We cover how it came back post Covid, what's new this year like; new classes including tying and trout spey, hands on testing and learning, the raffle that benefits the local Mayfly Project, and special guest Bruce Kruk, and we talk about Rick's new podcast, "Hunting with a Fly."For more on Spey Nation check out swingthefly.com/spey-nation/

On this week's episode I'm joined by Adam Slavinski and Adam Schroeder. We talk about their young starts to fishing, how they met and got into the industry, their latest venture and the birth of Second Bend Outfitters, incriminating videos and good work relationships, and so much more.

On this week's episode I'm talking with Mackenzie Berg and Mark Martin. We discuss Mackenzie's fishing beginnings, meeting with strange men on rivers, fly tying, writing and the need to make, ciricling back, conservation and time, working in Alaska and working with community, the trials and tribulations of rebuilding a boat, and so much more.

Teddy Cosco is joining me for this week's episode and we had a great chat. We discuss his start to fishing and working his way to steelhead, academia life, shooting clays at Cambridge, the experience of learning, camp cooking and the secret ingredient to good food, questionable sleep to fishing ratios, and so much more.

I'm talking with Jonny King this week. We dig into his start to fishing and how much Lunkers love nightcrawlers, fishing in the northeast, catadromous eels, his music journey, meeting and fishing with his wife, striper fishing, the evolution of fly tying, the joys of exploration, and so much more.

This week I'm joined by Patrick Cook. We discuss his time growing up in Michigan, his brotherly introduction to fly fishing, learning spey, Dette Flies' history and it's upcoming spey event, his own fly tying, Tacoma Tips, and so much more.

On this week's episode I'm talking with Chris Edington of Montana Trout Unlimited. We get to talking about is start to fishing and moving to Montana, drought and climate change, river renewal and dam removal, plans for the Shaw Dam and Alder Creek, finding common ground and cooperation amongst different organizations and political sides, public lands and access, and so much more.