Meet Caleb
In this episode we WadeOutThere with Caleb Andrews, from Charleston, South Carolina. Caleb fell in love with fly fishing early in life and continued to fly fishing during college in Tennessee while pursuing a degree in material science and engineering.
Although Caleb had always envisioned using his degree to land a job in the outdoor industry, he eventually took an engineering job in South Carolina. Soon, Caleb discovered and embraced his new fishery, pursuing red fish along the low country coastal waters. Before long, Caleb had bought a flats boat, moved to Charleston, and decided to “go for it,” helping others catch red fish as owner and head guide of his fishing charter Tails of the Tide.
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Episode Topics
- Maximizing efficiency while fishing for Red Fish
- Efficiency in fly tying
- Fly tying patterns for Red Fish
- Engineer’s mindset in fly fishing
- Fishing in Charlestons huge tidal swings
- Weighing probabilities and possibilities on the water
- Presentation techniques for Red Fish
Quotes from Caleb
“Life likes life. And so I think that a lot of times when you start finding life, life seems to catalyze life around it.”
“When you’re fishing with a fly rod, you’re basically fishing with a spring… if you can kind of have a shallow arc in that rod… you’re putting as much pressure on that fish as your leader will allow… you’re able to manipulate that fish a lot faster.”
“I think that a lot of the fishing is done before you go fishing… Because… if I’m going fishing for four hours today, I want to go fish in the four hours the fish are biting as opposed to the four hours or not.”
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