Follow along as we explore the latest fly fishing news and controversial opinions in This Week in Fly Fishing with Jared and Wills. In the first episode, we chat about how one of Colorado’s premier trout rivers is being ruined by millionaires and stocked fish, innovative new products, Bahamian politics, and why Euro nymphing sucks. Tune in for the news that matters and the debates that every angler has an opinion on.
The End of DIY Bonefishing, Euro Nymphing Sucks, Colorado Rivers INFECTED | This Week in Fly Fishing – Flylords Podcast
2 COMMENTS
LEAVE A REPLY
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
A few things first. I don’t listen to podcasts, mostly because I’m an impatient 71 year old grouchy bastard who can’t tolerate a bunch of young hipster know-it-alls alternate between pontification and endless inside joking. Second, I am an expat Coloradan who started fly fishing your waters before you guys were born. Charlie Meyers, the late outdoors editor of the Denver Post, who was a dear friend of your friend Kirk Deeter, was one of my fishing buddies. I now live and fish in Spain, where the fly fishing culture is hugely different, and mostly unknown to folks like you, I think.
Having said that, I loved your show. I like your humility, your points of view, your intelligence, your honesty, and your content.
I offer you these opinions, without yelling at you to get off my lawn,
1. I don’t dance around the central issue of our time anymore, which is the gap between the wealthy and the average José. It’s the billionaire bastards and their millionaire pals who are screwing us in fly fishing land. They are electing the pricks who are letting the other pricks drill bay drill our biosphere into oblivion. They are keeping Trout Unlimited and other conservation organizations from declaring war on Republicans, which is the only sane defense of our sport. Bipartisanship on public lands, alternative energy, environmental regulation, clean air and water, etc., etc. Is dead. And that’s why Paul Tudor Jones is trying to screw us by permitting “his” river.
2. You would probably love to hear me argue with my buddies here about competitive fly fishing, which is all the rage in Europe. I fish with multiple “national” and “world ranked” champions. They think they’re such great conservationists by prohibiting things like streamer fishing or using even tungsten weights on tippets. Meanwhile, they close a river to allow twenty to fifty guys to vacuum the fuck out of it for days at a time, taking each fish out of the water to measure before letting it go. You just would not believe it.
3. Here’s your buddy Mr. Jones predicting the end of humanity while he tries to survive on his roosters and cows in the Midwest. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be there with the guillotines when these masters of the universe are prying my rod out of my cold, dead hands. https://youtu.be/wrESBnPYoZU
Followup. Senator Mike Lee, Utah (MAGAt), has introduced legislation to allow for the sale of our National Parks. You think I’m kidding about Republicans?