Zack Williams, publisher and editor of "Swing the Fly Magazine" and editor of "Backcountry Journal" the official publication of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, virtually stopped by to talk this week. We spoke about his start to fishing, starting his own guide service, publishing a magazine, moving across the country, and competitive casting.
Episode 20 - Mark Shamburg, Gray Struznik, and Colby Olson
This week I'm joined by Mark Shamburg, and Gray Struznik (the part of Andy Richter is played by Colby Olson), and we all had quite a good time. As usual we talk about how they got started fishing, but we also cover some great tips, the difference between fishing and casting a spey rod, and maybe bourbon...just a little bourbon.
Episode 19 - Bob Meiser and Darrell Hanks
This week I'm talking to Bob Meiser and Derrell Hanks. We have lots of fishing stories to tell and we talk in depth about the RB Meiser Fly Rods.
Episode 18 - Dave Moskowitz
Dave Moskowitz, Executive Director of The Conservation Angler, came by to chat. We talk all about his start to fishing, ski snobbery, his intriguing career path, and the importance of conservation for the future of fishing, while only being interrupted by a menagerie of animals a few times.
Episode 17 - Colby Olson
This week Colby Olson stopped in. We talk about his start to fishing, his love of trout and steelhead, an interest in saltwater, talking with the ODFW, and the joys of the dutch oven, but not that dutch oven you weirdo.
Episode 16 - Charles Gehr
This week we have conversation with Charles Gehr, the new owner of Gary Anderson Custom Rods. Charles and others have been involved in an effort to eliminate retention of wild winter steelhead on the rivers of southern Oregon, in order to maintain the health of that population.
Details of the history of the effort can be found here-
https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/showing-up-and-showing-respect-for-wild-winter-steelhead
Based in the information above, listeners can help in two ways-
1- Write a letter outlining your concerns of the importance of reliable date, and your support for the elimination fo wild fish, and send it to NFS Conservation Director Jennifer Fairbrother at mailto:jennifer@nativefishsociety.org
2- THE BIGGY- If you can possibly make it, join Charles and Native Fish Society in attending the meeting this Friday at ODFW Headquarters in Salem. Send Jennifer Fairbrother an email - mailto:jennifer@nativefishsociety.org - and let her know that you’ll attend and have a three minute message to deliver in public testimony (yeah, I know, hardly anyone likes public speaking, but you’ll rock it, and be in good company).
Steelhead are not robust in any of their range in the PNW. Please do what you can to argue for the use of good science in protecting those we have left.
Episode 15 - Andy Cooper and Dave Cornell
This week we're headed back to the East Coast to talk, some old fishing buddies, Andy Cooper and Dave "Magic" Cornell. We talk about fishing for stripers, Andy's failed experiments, Magic's Gatherings, and Rochester's educational prowess.
Episode 14 - Bryan Stinson
Bryan Stinson, of RiverWise Anglers, stops by the Rambler HQ to talk this week. We discuss how he got started guiding, the birth of the squiddle, and much more.
Episode 13 - You Should Know
This week I talk with Callie Freemen, Shandy Danford, Josh Linn, and Nick Wheeler. We discuss some fun first steelhead stories, the Sugar Samurai, and the dangers of heated fishing moments.
Episode 12 - Poppy Cummins and Jeff Jarrett.
Poppy Cummins, of the Red Shed Fly Shop, sits down to talk this week and we're joined a little later by Jeff Jarrett. We talk about Poppy's fishing beginning, how the Red Shed started and speak about Jeff's guiding start, and the current issues on the Clearwater.