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I love podcasts.....financial podcasts, political podcasts, religious podcasts, tech podcasts, and especially fly fishing podcasts. (I'm listening to This Week in Google right now I now work from home and am able to get my Google reader through work in my office.

Fly fishing podcasts are great to get you through the winter. When you can't fish, the next best thing is reading, watching, and listening to fly fishing. They introduce you to new techniques, destinations, and are entertaining.

Here are the podcasts that I "tune" in to:

Fly Fish Radio
The site is up, but I get malware warning in firefox and chrome.....IE lets me straight through. Visit at your own risk.

The original fly fishing pod cast. Great info and the hosts Mike Overton and Wylie Thomas did a fairly good job in producing the show. Their interviewing skills got better as the episodes when on. They haven't put a podcast out in like...... forever, but check out the archives. The early shows with Norm Albiston were great....must listens. If they aren't up, I'm going to post them to my Google Reader Shared Items. I'm not sure if they are podcasting anymore. They also have some fly tying tutorial videos on the site as well.

Ask About Fly Fishing
This podcast is regularly updated (almost weekly), wide topics (think more than just trout talk), and PRIZES!!! The shows are basically interviews with fly fishing personalities. D. Roger Maves is the host and from Colorado. What he lacks in interviewing skill, he makes up with a huge amount of information. The show is 90 minutes long with a few commercials interspersed. He recently had a show with Charlie Craven on fly tying. John Barr, Brad Befus, and Brian O'Keefe have been past guests as well. Great stuff, I hope that Mr. Maves keeps it up. The show is streamed live so you can ask questions of the guests.

The Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast
Commercial, polished, and shorter podcast. The other podcasts are 30 to 90 minutes, whereas Orvis is about 10 minutes. Tom Rosenbauer, long time Orvisite, is the host. Where the previous two podcasts are amateurish, the Orvis FFGP, is definitely professional. The show takes questions from subscribers and Tom answers them. Tom is great to listen to with his personal stories of triumph and failure. Most of the topics are around trout, but does go in to saltwater with some great episodes on fly fishing techniques (casting, knots, equipment, etc). The show pushes Orvis stuff, but it's not annoying or obtrusive.

Subscribe to a few podcasts, download and save them for the long cold winter ahead.

Do you know of any fly fishing podcasts? Let me know in the comments.

I do everyone of these mistakes....sometimes one at a time....sometime every one on a single cast. Then I end up cutting off the fly, some tippett, and retying everything. And it never fails that the fish are rising like crazy then too.

It was a great day.

Great message from Tony Dungy.

The Importance of Fishing from Family First on Vimeo.

Hopefully this is a way that I can connect with my children as well.

Looks like a great show. Great fishing scenes.

Jazz & Fly Fishing TEASER from Jazz and Fly Fishing on Vimeo.

Not my type of music for fly fishing to. This is a little more my style:
Five Pound Bass

I've been listening to a couple of music blogs lately one of which is A Fifty Cent Lighter and a Whiskey Buzz.  Great Americana and folk music is posted on it.    I've been listening to Scott Miller and the Commonwealth's "I Made a Mess of this Town.

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Have you ever read a fly fishing magazine article or seen a fly fishing show where they go someplace special? Usually in those episodes, if the area isn't well known or can't handle the pressure of scads of fisherman showing up, they don't name it or tell you how to get to those places. And for good reason, the world simply doesn't need to know and shouldn't know where they are at. The death knell for a body of water can be heard when those places are named. Not necessarily because the fishery is adversely impacted (though it can be), but because tons of people show up and "ruin" the specialness of the place.

I recently read an article by a local fishing personality, Chad LaChance. The article appeared in both the local paper and online at a popular fishing website. He also filmed an episode of his TV show there. Chad divulged one of my favorite places to fish. It's my favorite because (1) not a lot of people fish there (although it is fairly popular hiking destination), and (2) because the fishing is good. You don't often get to fish for larger greenback cutthroat trout. I know it's a public place and I don't own it and can't stop people from going there (however, there are several large man eating bears, water moccasins, and a homicidal mad man resembling Ted Kaczynski, so travel there at your own risk).

My beef is this: Did he really need to name the place? I mean you can write an article, blog, and film a TV show without naming the lake and it wouldn't hurt the intent of the article. The place named was a high mountain lake. High mountain lakes are pretty delicate. The fish there have a very short growing and spawning season, since the lake is ice free for about 3 months of the year. The lake is fairly easy to get to (assuming you can walk at altitude without dying) and the accessible land around it is small. A large number of people constantly going there will make an impact. One only needs to go to the neighborhood lake, pond, or stream to see what a large number of people will do to an area.

Chad's article is a good article for this time of year, reminding fishermen that there are some beautiful places to go in the high country. But, please don't name them. Maybe the article won't foster any damage to this lake. But, my point is that people who write about fishing (myself included) have a responsibility to judge the impact of their material.

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April 24th......running to the store to pick up mine!!