Today’s guest is Fran Mariani, host of Fly Cast America – the only fly fishing offering on ESPN Latin America. He and his partner travel across South America fishing waters familiar to a North American audience like those in Patagonia for giant trout, and some less familiar waters for species exotic and less familiar to us. They also introduce North American destinations to their audience – last season they fished U.S. waters like Miami’s Biscayne Bay for bonefish, and Utah’s Green River. Read More
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Fish Schtick Episode 24 – Guest Fran Mariani
Fish Schtick Podcast – Episode 23 – Guest John Crews
John Crews joins us on today’s Fish Schtick. One of the younger generation of stars in the world of professional bass fishing, John is more than a BASS Elite Angler. He is also currently the president of the PAA - the Professional Angler’s Association. To be elected president means that you have gained a position of respect among your peers, and you’ll have no question as to why after meeting him on today’s show. Read More
Fish Schtick Podcast Episode 19 – Guest Carrol Henderson
Carrol Henderson joins us on today’s Fish Schtick. He’s an Iowa Boy like me – he grew up on a farm in central Iowa where his dad took him fishing at farm ponds for sunfish and bullheads. Today he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he works for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. What he’s best known for today may be more in the world of waterfowl than in the angling world. Read More
Fish Schtick Video Short: Loop Tackle Design
You know what's cool about Loop? Pretty much everything. Their new X-Grip Handle is the most revolutionary innovation in fly rods since - well - graphite. It takes rod handling to a whole new level of control. Read More
Fish Schtick Podcast Episode 18
Our guest today is Heather Sieber, Communication & Education Director at the RBFF – the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation. These are the “Angler’s Legacy people,” the “Take Me Fishing” people. This week is National Fishing & Hunting Day, so it’s a timely opportunity to have Heather here to talk about what each of us can do to introduce new people to the sport of fishing – and why it matters. Read More
Fish Schtick Video Short: Shark Tooth
The boys at Fly Fishing Xtreme have come up with a clever little innovation - the Shark Tooth - that will help tame your tippet and cut it cleanly every time. Bobby Brown Trout and Jesse Holt give us a look at the $5 product that everybody was talking about at the Fly Fishing Retail Show. Read More
Fish Schtick Podcast Episode 4
Dr. Sam Snyder joins us from Kalamazoo, Michigan where he’s recently moved from Florida. He won’t be there for long though, he’s headed to the East Coast, the Desert Southwest and Alaska in the next year, so we’ll find out why when we talk to him today. Sam’s doctoral degree comes from the Religion and Nature program at the University of Florida. His dissertation covered the role that religions and cultural values have played in conservation. For the first time, the National Sporting Library has awarded a John H. Daniels Read More
Fish Schtick Podcast Episode 3
Justin Crump and Kate Taylor join us today on The Fish Schtick. You know Justin from the epic, created-the-category Fish Bum movies. He’s also 2007 Slab of the Year winner on Moldy Chum. Kate is responsible for the good stuff you see at Rouge Angels – online at RougeAngels.net, the premier girl fly fishing blog on the net. The two of them will lead the Moldy Chum Field Trip to Baja later this summer. Recently, they’ve been lost in Idaho chasing double-digit trout, and that’s double-digit pounds, not inches, so Read More
Fish Schtick Podcast Episode 2
Thad Robison joins us on the Fish Schtick this week. Thad is on the road with the Fly Fishing Film Tour, presented by The Drake. In just it's third year, The Fly Fishing Film Tour has become the fishing entertainment event of the year. The Film Tour is going on now, we’ve been talking about it nearly every week on the Fish Schtick, and it will be seen in well over 75 cities this year. The goal of the Fly Fishing Film Tour is to energize the industry Read More








Fish Schtick Episode 32 – Shaw Grigsby
Shaw Grigsby is a bass fishing icon. He’s been a professional angler for over 25 years, and wherever he shows up, so does a crowd of fans. He’s won over $1.5 Million fishing bass tournaments. His show, “One More Cast,” can be seen every week on Versus. His book, "Bass Master Shaw Grigsby: Notes on Fishing and Life,” is the only book on bass fishing ever published by the National Geographic Society. And in just a couple of weeks, he fishes his 12th Bassmaster Classic on Lay Lake near Birmingham, Read More