This week I'm speaking with Monte Clarke. We discuss his family's generations of adventure and growing up fly fishing, his surfing adventures and surfing in British Columbia, a bamboo obsession, hunting,and his experiences guiding on the Dean from boats to gear and bears.
Episode 132 - Kara Knight
This week I'm talking with Kara Knight. We discuss her fishing origins as an adventure guide on the west coast, the importance of a family atmosphere with guiding, competitive casting and her time in Sweden, having different fishing and casting rods, her more recent adventures in saltwater, the effects of competition on her fishing, and the head game that it is.
Episode 131 - Zach Morris & Dalton Walker
This week I'm joined by Zach Morris and Dalton Walker. We discuss our recent mid-river meeting, some brief life stores, jumping from gear to fly fishing, the unforgiveable act of low-holing, being a farrier for arabian horses, a need for new gear, widening beer horizons, and deadly murder-beavers.
Episode 130 - Luke Kelly & Greg Fitz
The River Rambler is back from its September hiatus and I'm joined by Luke Kelly and Greg Fitz of Trout Unlimited. We start by talking about habitat restoration on the Olympic Peninsula, the cold water connection campaign, the importance and restoration of old growth log jams in rivers. We also discuss Luke's childhood spent fishing, smelly teen bedrooms, moving to Seattle and working with the Suquamish, and more.
Trout Unlimited's "Restoring Rainforest Rivers" -www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBRhRDk4ms
Episode 129 - Peter Harrison-Edge
This week I'm joined by Peter Harrison-Edge. We get straight to important discussions about smart mouthing, and then get to slightly more serious topics like his intro to fishing through Canadian television, building rods, learning from the pros, builidng a boat, canoe camp, the secret of accents, and be picked by the steelhead.
Episode 128 - Britt and Brian Davenport
This week I'm speaking with Britt and Brian Davenport. We discuss their starts to fishing, meething in a chat room, cutthroat, delta wings and tying the fly of the year, fly tying as a creative outlet, bears, wilderness vs the city, dog talk, and their continuing journey towards steelhead.
Episode 127 - Matthew DeLorme
This week I'm joined again by Matthew DeLorme. We go into a deep dive about printmaking, including how he started work for Steve Duda's new book, his time getting back to Fine Art, what goes into a woodcut and hand-printing, the dangers of printing big, and we even remember to talk about fishing, including some East Coast saltwater.
Episode 126 - Stephen Duda
This week I'm talking with Steve Duda, author of "River Songs." We discuss both his fishing and writing backgrounds, old pick-ups, Writers on the Fly, learning to dance, creating and creativity, dogs, Matthew DeLorme's woodcuts, excerpts from his book, and a great piece of advice, "When in Rome, write shit down."
Episode 125 - Jake Crawford
This week i'm joined by Jake Crawford of The Steamboaters and Fly Water Travel. We discuss his start to fishing, catching his first steelhead, being a River Steward for Native Fish Society, his time in South America and learning languages, steelheaders' "sharing" culture and secretive nature, the wonderful word of bike polo and smashed orbitals, and the thrashing beluga of Oregon.
Episode 124 - Travis Johnson
This week I'm joined by Travis Johnson of All Waters Angling. We talk about fishing with his dad, wrestling, guiding, his change to competitive casting and becoming world champion, the American Casting Association, his favorite rods, Alaska, instruction via Instagram, evening caddis fishing, his Frigate line of rods, loving insults, and the fun of things going wrong.