In this episode we WadeOutThere for Part Two of our conversation with Kubie Brown from Southwest Montana. Kubie grew up with an obsession for fishing that often led to solo fishing excursions in the streams, rivers, and lakes of Vermont and New York.
His literature and creative writing studies led him to work as a reporter and later an editor for a local newspaper. Kubie quit his job as editor to take a job as a sales associate at Orvis, which later led to casting and fly tying instructing.
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Kubie Brown Part 1. Problem Solving with Streamers and Diversity in the Adirondacks (Ep. 205)
In this episode we WadeOutThere for Part One of our conversation with Kubie Brown from Southwest Montana. Kubie grew up with an obsession for fishing that often led to solo fishing excursions in the streams, rivers, and lakes of Vermont and New York. His literature and creative writing studies led him to work as a reporter and later an editor for a local newspaper. Kubie quit his job as editor to take a job as a sales associate at Orvis, which later led to casting and fly tying instructing.
In this episode we Wade Back into some of 2024s most memorable conversations. These impactful dialogues are a combination of tactics, stories, conservation, and personal journeys that represent the best of what fly fishing can give us and what we can give back.
In this episode we WadeOutThere with Casey Callison, from Springfield, Missouri. Casey moved to the Ozarks from St. Louis when he was a small boy and has been hunting and fishing there ever since. When Casey was twelve he was introduced to fly fishing. He spent nearly every day in the summers of his youth on the banks of Lake Taneycomo, below Table Rock Dam, fishing and learning from a local fly fisherman that became a friend and mentor.
In this episode we WadeOutThere with Maxine McCormick, from San Francisco California. Maxine began fly fishing as a child with her father, and spent summer vacations with family, on the McCloud River, catching fish and learning from her dad.
When Maxine was introduced to competition fly casting, her new found passion for casting helped her enjoy the fishing aspect of the sport more as well. Maxine was competing nationally at age nine and won a gold medal at the world championships for accuracy at age twelve.
In this episode we WadeOutThere with Jack Kingsborough, from New Zealand. Jack moved from Australia to New Zealand to pursue a life at sea in commercial fishing, and soon found a passion for fly fishing.
In this episode we WadeOutThere with Christy McReynolds from Jonesborough, Tennessee. Christy grew up learning to fish with her father in the lakes and rivers of East Tennessee.
In 2011, after a devastating car accident left Christy with a broken neck, Christy turned to fly fishing and fly tying to help regain mobility and strength in her hands and arms as well as build up strength in her neck.