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WOT 213: Wyoming Trout Streams on Horseback and Building Community Through Casting for Recovery with Missy Sprouse
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Wyoming Trout Streams on Horseback and Building Community Through Casting for Recovery with Missy Sprouse (Ep. 213)

In this episode we WadeOutThere with Missy Sprouse, from Crowheart, Wyoming.  Missy learned to fly fish in East Tennessee after meeting her husband.  Together they moved to the remote Wind River Range of Wyoming to settle down and enjoy fishing and riding horses in the mountains.  Missy is also a photographer and after falling in love with fly fishing, became excited about capturing the powerful experiences that women encounter through Casting for Recovery, an organization created to help women with breast cancer through fly fishing.  Missy also served on the organization’s national board for eight years.  We discuss fly fishing in the Wind River Mountains, the special experience of reaching your trout stream on horseback, and building lasting communities of ladies through Casting for Recovery.
WOT 212: Fly Tying Salmon Flies and the South Fork of the Snake River with Ken Burkholder
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Fly Tying Salmon Flies and the South Fork of the Snake River with Ken Burkholder (Ep. 212)

In this episode we WadeOutThere with Ken Burkholder, from Boise, Idaho.  Ken grew up playing music and fly fishing.  Growing up in a musical family, with two older brothers to drive him to the river helped him live his early years doing what he loved: practicing the oboe, and fly fishing.  After eventually earning his masters in the oboe at Northwestern University, the mountains called Ken back.  He put his passions to work as a member of the  Boise Philharmonic Orchestra in his hometown in the winter, and a fly fishing guide on the South Fork of the Snake River in the summer… living his dream for over thirty five years.  Ken is also a signature tyer for Fulling Mill.  We discuss tying salmon flies and golden stones, problem solving on the vise for beginners, and the South Fork of the Snake River.
WOT 211: Line Management, Tag Flies, and the Upper Green River with Pete Erickson
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Line Management, Tag Flies, and the Upper Green River with Pete Erickson (Ep. 211)

In this episode we WadeOutThere with Pete Erickson, from Boise Idaho.  Pete grew up fly fishing in Washington state and exploring the surrounding mountain lakes. After college, he became a guide on the Upper Green River, in Wyoming, while also teaching high school English.  Pete has been a competitor for team USA in the competitive fly fishing world and is a rod designer for Echo.  We discuss Pete’s experience learning and fishing in Tuscany, Italy, the Upper Green River, line management tips for nymphing and dry fly fishing, and Pete shares his progress into the outdoor wellness space in the coming years.
Photo from Josh Gallivan
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Dry Fly Techniques, the Snake River, and Hosted Trips with Josh GallivanPodcast Draft (Ep. 197)

In this episode we WadeOutThere with Josh Gallivan, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Josh was born and raised in Jackson Hole, and started working in a fly shop while in high school.  He knew early on that he wanted to be a fly fishing guide, and got plenty of practice on the oars fishing with his uncle, who helped him buy his first drift boat. 
Photo from Fishing the Good Fight
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Streamer Fishing on the North Platte River and the Importance of Community with Jennings Hester

Fly fishing brings with it the idea of solitude.  Alone with your thoughts on the river.  Just you and the fish.  Many people fall in love with fly fishing because of that time away from everything else in their lives that clutters their brain.  I admit, I seek that same state of mind in fly fishing. That focus and clarity that comes from wading through cold, flowing water and getting lost in the problem solving.  That focus we find in fly fishing, when everything else disappears is special, but even in our solitude, we are part of a community of others who seek the same thing.  And that makes the fly fishing community unique... and valuable.
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Fish All the Way to the Takeout

There comes a time when it feels like you've tried everything.  We had fished fast and slow water. Skinny runs and deep pools.  Off the banks and in the middle.  Dries and wet flies, both big and small.  Nymphs,  emergers, dry droppers, hopper droppers, two flies, one fly, weighted flies, with and without split shot.  Swinging, stripping, tightlining, dead drifting.  Up and down, left to right, and all over that water, you name it, we’d fished it! 
Upper Green River
Photo by Jesse Males from Back Water Fly Fishing
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Podcast Ep 122 – The Importance of Exploration and the Upper Green River with Donicio Gomez

And what do those ten trips bring him?  The answer is not more fish, at least not in the short term.  Donicio will admit that nine out of ten of those trips are a bust.  Sure, there is value in the adventure of it, and the beauty of being in the mountains, but these trips typically end in long drives and tough hikes with little to no fish… nine out of ten times.  Donicio goes for that tenth time.  
Photo from Dana Osthoff.
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WOT 70: Rocky Mountain Golden Trout with Dana Osthoff.

Perhaps one of the more challenging and rewarding trout to chase is the golden.  I remember as a teenager backpacking into the Beartooth Mountains and deliberately passing on some of the lakes we knew held goldens.  They were brutal hikes to say the least.  I am happy Dana accepted the challenge and chased those beautiful fish, and am grateful to her for sharing her knowledge and experiences on the podcast.