July 26, 2024 • 37 mins
Welcome to the first episode of the Trout Wrangler Podcast! In this episode, i will introduce myself and this podcast to everyone! I recap a few recent trips and review the Headwaters Outfitters Fly Shop in Rosman NC.
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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Trout Wrangler podcast.
I'm your host, Ryan Garrity. And you know, this is a new podcast.
I was thinking about doing this for a while. I have an Instagram page called Rise Fly Charlotte.
And I was asking my sister, I was like, what could make this bigger than it kind of has gotten?
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And it's not too big yet but I want to get it a lot larger than it
is and I was asking my sister who's a marketing major at the
University of Georgia what I could
do to you know gauge more people's interests and
try to get more viewership on the Instagram get the numbers up a little bit
and see where we could take it and my sister suggested a podcast and also a
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website that's also in the works but yeah this is the podcast like I said it's
called the Trout Wrangler podcast podcast,
and I'm going to get right into the introduction, who I am, what I'm doing,
what you can expect in this.
This is mostly what this episode is about, is just introducing myself,
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letting you know what to expect on the show, but I'm also going to go and recap a few trips I've been on.
I've gone to the French Broad River and gone to the West Fork of the Pigeon
River, which both those fisheries are here in the great state of North Carolina,
where I'm actually from.
And my other hobbies outside of fly fishing and fly tying are,
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I'm a big college football fan.
Like I said, my younger sister, who's helped me out with a lot of this,
goes to the University of Georgia.
So anytime I can spend a Saturday in Athens, I'll take up that opportunity in a heartbeat. beat.
If I'm not in Athens, I'm still sitting on the couch on a Saturday watching college football.
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Also a big professional football fan, just a professional sports fan in general.
Grew up in Massachusetts, so I'm actually a massive New England Patriots fan,
Red Sox fan, Celtics and Bruins fan.
So I watch all of those as much as I can.
You can't really get them down here much in North Carolina, so Stream East has
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been my best friend since I actually moved down here from there in 07.
But right now I'm living in Charlotte, North Carolina right below Mount Nile
and Lake and like I just stated I grew up in the great state of Massachusetts,
the city of champions Boston, Massachusetts,
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didn't grow up in Boston but probably about a 45 minute ride from there but
I started fly fishing like really heavily about probably.
My freshman year of high school.
But before then, my uncle Kevin, shout out uncle Kevin, always had a fly rod
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around at family getaways, anywhere with water where we were going,
my uncle Kevin probably had a fly rod with him.
And, you know, probably pretty good idea from the guy because we grew up,
I have 21 cousins or something like that.
It's hard to even count anymore, but large family and, you know, it was cool.
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I would always go down there as always kind of into bass fishing and stuff like that.
So I go down there with Kevin and watch him whack trout on a fly rod and like
a pond in New Hampshire or something like that and you know,
that's where I really like looked at it and was like, dude, fly fishing is pretty cool.
And then I started kind of taking Kevin's extra rod and tossing around with
it a little bit. And I was like, you know, I kind of really liked this.
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But yeah, shout out to Uncle Kevin for the patience, too. God only knows how
many leaders and tippet I messed up at his when I was younger,
literally whipping flies around and how many times I probably hooked them.
But no, but after that, you know, I really didn't start tying flies until very recently.
I worked in the recreation field and, you know,
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getting back from, you know, I was
a youth sports coordinator and getting back from youth sports
games and having to listen to dads say talk
about how oh yeah my kid's probably gonna go d1 and
having to deal with parents yelling at
officials and yelling at coaches and coaches
trying to stack teams coaches running up the
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score on other coaches you know you really kind of
want to come home and just beat the hell a lot
of the pillows on your couch but I kind
of took a different different approach I would
get home from work sometimes nine o'clock
ten o'clock and I'd sit down and kind
of like teach teach myself how to tie flies I've
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watched YouTube videos and sit there
with material I've probably wasted so much material tying crappy
flies when I first started but now I've
kind of took a liking into it and I started up my Instagram page called Rise
Fly Charlotte so if you're on Instagram you want to check it out go check it
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out it's at rise r-y-s underscore flies f-l-i-e-s c-l-t.
So go check out the Instagram page website's coming soon and then like I said
this is my first podcast episode.
I'm kind of trying to take this to be pretty big, but you know,
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before I really got heavily into fly fishing, I was a big bass fisherman, high school,
college, even before high school and college, like even in middle school,
if I wasn't at school or at football.
Lacrosse or practice or something like that, I was out trying to find a pond to fish.
And you couldn't really at that time start
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fishing competitively in tournaments sanctioned by
like a high school BASS stuff like
that couldn't really start fishing those until high school
now they got the junior series if they had the junior series when I was in middle
school I probably would have fished the junior series rather than playing middle
school lacrosse and football and stuff like that but ended up like I said going
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on to fish at East Carolina University for four years,
traveled across the country with a bass boat behind me. I had my own Skeeter bass boat.
And when I wasn't traveling for college tournaments, I was fishing little local...
Start up like wildcat tournaments i had a fun time doing it but you know that bass fishing,
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it kind of got old still going
chase bass on a fly of course but like you know
tournament bass fishing is is very strenuous
and stressful and you know especially around here it's been getting a little
bit dramatic here in charlotte where it's just like you got facebook warriors
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ears going at each other's neck and comments on public forums and Facebook pages.
And I was like, why do we have to do that?
So, you know, I kind of got phased out of it and, you know, got way more into
fly fishing than I already was.
And that's what's led me here.
Tell you a little bit about the show. Probably wondering where I got my name from.
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You know I was sitting at the movie
Twister the other night and you know
Glenn Powell's character and I'll give you a subtle heads up real quick your
girlfriend probably wants to go and see Twister so bad because Glenn Powell
and to save you frustration when you get there be warned your girlfriend will
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be sitting there staring at the screen probably drooling because that's
what my girlfriend did speaking from experience and you know i don't swing that
way but i must say glenn powell he's like first team all handsome you know he's a he's a handsome fella,
no homo but that's where i got my name glenn powell's character he it was like
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tornado wrangler on youtube or something like that and i was like you know what
i'm gonna call my podcast trout Prout Wrangler podcast.
And that's how I figured it out. Sitting there at the Twisters movie.
What you can expect on this podcast. Going to recap. Trips I go on. Gear reviews.
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I'll even do fly shop reviews. Just good stories. Maybe some Q&A stuff.
And here and there I'll have some. I'll have some guests.
And stuff like that. Mostly like my friends. And some guys I know that work at fly shops.
And guides. And I'm going to try and do that as much as possible.
So it's not just me going on an ADD tangent and just rambling to y'all so much
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because it's like that gets old after a while.
And believe me, I could talk the pain off of the house, but guys probably hate that.
But it's just going to be all around just reviews, stories, Q&A,
fly stuff. I'll pick fly of the week every week.
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Just give recaps on trips, stuff like that, like I stated earlier.
But that's kind of what to expect. We may start a YouTube as well here soon
and just start doing the podcast on YouTube.
Tube because i'm kind of like a kind of you know trial running it on voice memos here for right now,
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on on my mac laptop that
i've had since 2015 that the storage
is absolutely running low on this computer could catch on fire at any moment
in my lap and it's probably because there's absolutely no memory and this computer
just heats up and probably catches me on fire like the human flame from that
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movie. I forget what it's called.
Avengers, maybe? Yes, I think it's Avengers. I don't know. I don't usually watch those.
But like I said, I run myself a little fly-tying Instagram page,
little store online that's getting picked up.
And like I mentioned earlier, I started it probably six months ago,
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right before the new year.
Probably a little bit before the new year, but...
I'm just trying to kind of build it as big as I can.
Tie flies, maybe even eventually do some guiding stuff from Charlotte up into
the mountains, taking people from here to go.
It's just like right now, I don't know where it's going to go,
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but I'm hoping it goes to as big as I want it to be.
But, you know, like I said, there's a website on the way.
Me and my little sister are actually working through that as we speak.
She did some stuff on the website. yesterday.
I've been kind of grinding on the website, but let's get into some stuff about my recent trips.
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Last week on Wednesday, I went to the East Fork of the French Broad with one
of my buddies. He's actually a YouTuber.
I'll drop the YouTube in the, I think it's Treyway, but if you just look up
Trey Bradford on YouTube, it pops up.
That video should be coming up pretty soon too. So, you know,
I went with my buddy Trey Brafford and he,
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it was his first, he's fly fish one time before, but he goes between North Carolina
and Florida and he went and peacock bass fished for some, uh,
for some peacocks down in Florida.
And that was the very first time fly fishing.
He called me up and was like, Hey, I went down, caught some peacocks on a fly.
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I tied them up some stuff and send them down to them.
So i caught some peacocks on a fly but he's like i want
to come back up home during july and
august and really dial in the whole trout fishing
thing he's like and actually have somebody teach me how
to do it because he said he was out there just like
trial and error when he was down
in florida so what happened he came back from florida and i was like hey let's
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shoot up to east fork the french broad and that's kind of what i'm going to
talk about here all right if anything changes here I just had to get up and
get a Gatorade because my throat was starting to become the Sahara Desert as we spoke.
So we ended up going up to the East Fork, the French Broad.
And like right now, if you're from Charlotte, if you live in North Carolina,
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it has just been raining every day.
And the trout fishing is very much so taking a hit from that.
Just because it's so hot and the rain just muddies up all the rivers.
But, you know, that doesn't really keep anyone from catching fish.
Fish so leading up
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to going to the french broad like the
three days before it rained almost every
afternoon me being a knucklehead i'm
not thinking you know it's probably raining up there too i'm thinking it's not
raining we get up there day of yeah that that river you can't even see your
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feet in front of you so we get up there and i'm like oh we're already battling adversity here,
and a couple guides walk by and i
were like how you guys doing and they're like oh we caught a couple you know
stereotypical stuff i was like catch any on a dry fly and he was like look at
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the water what do you think i was like you like probably not i'm just trying
to get a gauge on and stuff here, you know, they could hit a dry fly when it's muddy out.
But for like the first half of the day, they didn't hit a dry fly at all.
Just because it was so muddy and it
was high like i'm talking it was high out there on the
french broad river if you've ever been out there you
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know what it gets like when it's high out there but kind of
a little bit sketchy kind of was hard to hard to
see where you're stepping at times not very ideal for like a first time stream
trout fisherman and the fact i didn't have any waders i left my waders at the
house and was just wet wading all i had were some reddington wet weight and
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socks almost took a took a spill a couple times but you know didn't have that happen,
but it was the weirdest thing so throughout like literally first half of the
day i couldn't get them to sniff anything but a squirmy wormy as awful as that
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sounds they wouldn't they wouldn't Didn't even sniff anything.
Pull out a squirmy wormy out of my fly box. First cast of the squirmy wormy. Catch one.
And I'm like, oh, it's going to be one of these days. Where I'm literally sitting
there watching a squirmy wormy drift the entire day.
Little did I know, I didn't have as many squirmy wormies in my box as I thought
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I did. I literally only had about two.
So, once again, battling some adversity. But we got through it.
So you know day goes on 11 o'clock comes around and my buddy gets hung in a
tree i'm down turned around like kind of inspecting some stuff and he's like oh i hear him go oh crap,
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and i'm like what happened and i turn around he's like i just broke your rod bro,
so i walk over i'm like you sure it just didn't come connected disconnected
from where it uh goes in and he was like, nah, that thing's broke as a joke.
Cause so I go over there. Sure enough. Yeah. That thing's broke as a joke.
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So I go, that rod goes out of commission for the day. That wasn't even a 24-hour-old rod.
Brand new three-weight Dogwood Canyon from Bass Pro.
And so, you know, I buy those Dogwood Canyons because it's like,
you know, you go buy it for $80, you break it, you can swap it out within 90 days.
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Pretty good little deal there. So, you know, next day I just went and brought that thing back.
They were out of three weights, but I went and grabbed a four-weight because I was going that Friday.
So we get there every just a list of everything that goes we pull up high muddy
not eating a dry fly just absolutely wild stuff get there just caught me completely
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off guard i was like oh crap.
So all that happens like noontime
12 30 one o'clock rolls around that dry
fly bite for some reason just absolutely turns
on i was drifting a squirmy
wormy across the top of the water one comes
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up yeah smacks that thing i'm talking
absolutely destroys it i'm like
huh all right what's this going on here pull
out an ant pattern from my fly box
tie that thing on toss one up upstream drift it down boom one comes up and gets
it i'm like huh that dry fly light's turning on my buddy throws up with my rod
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drifts it down one smacks it loses it at the bang.
I cast one more up boom one
smacks it miss it
i'm like oh shoot so it's
getting to be like 12 30 to one o'clock that entire window from
like 12 to one it was the craziest dry fly
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fish when we saw all day and that was
about it we went down the mountain to go to uh headwaters outfitters
and then grab some food at that food truck that's always out there and i'll
tell you what i don't remember the name of that food truck outside of forks
of the river tap room that food truck has some of the best dang best dang mustard
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based barbecue sauce that i've ever had and their barbecue was absolutely fantastic.
We get out of there, get done eating. We go into the fly shop,
and I'm talking the bottom absolutely falls out.
There's lightning popping everywhere. You hear thunder going for miles,
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and I'm like sitting there. I'm like, oh, do we wait this out?
Because, you know, sometimes up there in the mountains, you wait 10 minutes.
That storm could be gone, but this one didn't look like it was leaving anytime
soon. So, you know, we stuck around in the fly shop for a little bit and walked
around, let my buddy go into the fly shop. He's never been to that fly shop.
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And that brings me to my very first fly shop review.
I've been to Headwaters Outfitters multiple times before.
You don't get as better of the people that work in this shop.
They're super friendly. friendly they're super
super nice people they'll always
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strike up conversation with you just great customer service
and they're always willing to
help and they have some great product in
there i'm talking like great product all awesome
flies they got great tine material section sell
vices in there they sell about everything you need if something goes wrong on
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the river or you need something like midday it's close enough to the river that
you can just be like all right i'm gonna get in the truck drive on over there
and i'll pick up some stuff midday.
And they'll always lend you a helping hand. Always.
They're just nice people. Probably one of those top-notch fly shops I've ever
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been into. And it's in an absolutely prime location.
As we were leaving, we ended up not being able to fish any longer because that
storm just intensified the longer we were at the shop.
And as much as it bummed me out, we really only got to fish until 2.
And my buddy didn't get much content for his youtube video but as we were leaving
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headwaters i asked one of the guides there and i asked them they usually don't
give information out like this,
to what i've seen and other places i've been but i was taking a trip that friday
with my younger brother to take him fly fishing for the first time and i asked
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him i was like hey i was like uh,
where's the spot that i could take my brother just go
whack away at fish and uh just have him be like make him like let him have a
good time and like really learn how to fly fish and then have a good time that
guide gave me the information as quick as i snapped my fingers which i very
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much so So appreciate it because the information she gave me was fantastic.
But Headwaters Outfitters, if any of you guys are listening to this or by any
chance happen to catch wind of it, keep doing what you guys are doing and just
keep up the good work because you guys are one of the best shops in that area.
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If not the best shop in that area. But that transitions to me,
that guide told me in headwaters to, they're like, go to the West Fork of the Pigeon River.
And I was like, you know, that week I usually don't fish as much delayed harvest
water as I did that week, but I was taking two newer fishermen.
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And I was like, you know, the best place for them to learn and have a good shot
at catching fish, delayed harvest.
Harvest so where'd I take my younger brother Friday West
Fork of the Pigeon River delayed harvest and I
am so glad that that guy told me to come up there I
looked at my GPS when I was leaving my house that morning
I'm sitting there I'm like oh man two hour and 30 minute
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ride I was like I'm that's gonna
be the death me but we woke
up got a little late start I wanted to kind of get
a little late start i've been on go mode that
entire week and i was like
told my little brother i was like hey get to my apartment at like seven o'clock
we'll shoot our way up there and we'll just
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get some good fishing and looked at the weather forecast saw that we had a little
bit of more rain coming in later in the day like a chance of it and i'm not
opposed to fishing in the rain but you know a newer guy you know like they might
not be opposed to fishing in the rain and that That might just make their time absolutely miserable.
So I sat there and I was like, all right. I was like, brother gets in the car.
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We get to going up there. I'm like, Hey, we got some rain coming in later in the day.
If you want to fish through it and the fishing's good, let me know.
I was like, cause it'll be good.
If fishing's good and you want to stay, we can stay as long as you want.
I was like, I don't care if we fish until 2 a.m. The next morning,
they're catching, if we're catching them, we're having a good time. We can stay.
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So the whole ride up there, sat there, talked to my brother for the entire two
hours and 33 minutes, you know, haven't really had that kind of time with him up until recently.
He just got a new job and had some downtime before starting his new job.
So I told him, I was like, you know, he's an investment banker.
That dude, that dude lives absolutely wide open, just high, strong.
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And I was like, Hey, it was like, you want to do something that'll kind of like
relax you, ease your nerves a little bit before you go back on to your new job.
And he's like, yeah, let's do it. So I brought him to the West Fork of the Pigeon River.
You know, we get up there and, dude, for the 45 minutes it was from the East
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Fork of the French Broad, the water clarity and the water quality was, like,
two completely different sides of the spectrum.
We get up there to the Pigeon River.
That water is gin clear.
And so I told my brother, I was like, hey, let's about get you rigged up.
Actually tied them on a ant
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pattern dry fly so this is
like you know usually i'll go out there and if i'm
with somebody i'll tie on like a
sinking fly or a wet fly and then i'll have the other person tie on a tie on
a dry fly something like ant pattern you know pats rubber legs parachute something
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like that and then whoever gets bit first it's like If we start catching fish on, say, a dry fly,
then we'll start switching over to dry flies.
If somebody catches one on, say, like a midge or a sinking fly,
we'll switch over to sinking flies.
So we get out there, and there's some people having a picnic to the right of us.
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There's some good-looking water to the right, and then there's some good-looking water to the left.
And there was some kid little
kid and his grandpa straight up whacking on
trout for literally 45 minutes down
on the left i'm talking dude was
straight stroking him i swear
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this kid probably had to have caught seven to
ten fish in a row like three separate times so we're
sitting there watching him we're in like a kind of
like a mid-zone because there's people having a picnic up to the right
of us right on the other side of them good looking
water people down to the left so
it's like you know we kind of got our hands cuffed here
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i was like we could go down catch go
on the other side of them but i was like my back cast and your
back cast are probably going to be in there dang be in
their grill the entire time and it
was like yeah no let's not do that i was like no i don't really want
to do that either to those people looks like they're having
like a family picnic sure enough the people
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that are having the family picnic like maybe 15 minutes later we're fishing
between the two groups 15 minutes later yeah the rest of their people come up
it's two guys with fly rods their hole sitting for those guys i could care less
i was like you know what if we're all catching fish we're all having fun.
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So we're out there like 10 minutes. I go down, I catch, I catch one on a dry fly.
And then I go over to my little brother. He's still kind of learning how to cast.
And my little brother's one of those guys that he will get frustrated super quick.
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So I was kind of like a little bit of nervous because it's like,
if he gets too frustrated, he'll just, he'll just, you know,
let it shut down and just sit there the rest of the day.
So I'm sitting there I'm like oh shoot I was like he's not having a
good time so I go down there to
the the kid and his grandpa fishing and I
walk up to the grandfather and I put my rod down so he knows I wasn't gonna
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come up and like hole hop him I go to the grandfather's like hey you mind if
we move down closer to uh to y'all like I don't want to be on top of you guys
and I was like I I don't want to make your grandson's time anymore.
Like, I don't want to really ruin your grandson's time. If we come,
come up on y'all and we're whipping flies around.
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He's like, no man, come on down. He's like, you're biting like crazy right here.
I was like, yeah, I just watched a kid catch like 40 fish in a 30 minute time span.
He's like, yeah, man, come on down. He's like, we won't bite you.
He's like, we're only two fish away from our limit anyway. Anyway,
so we go down there and we're sitting there hanging out with this kid and his grandpa.
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And, you know, that's just a good thing about fishing, too, is it's like,
you know, most of these people are going to be nice guys.
So I'm sitting there talking to the guy's grandson.
He's sitting there still just straight up destroying them on red worms and a push button reel.
And grandfather's all excited. I'm netting fish for him. from the grandfather's net and fish form.
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It's kind of like a joint effort at that point. It's like, help me help,
like, help us help you guys.
We'll help you guys. You guys let us fish over here. So, you know,
we had good conversation.
Hung out with them, super nice people, told us some good places to eat.
And, you know, it's always one of those things. It's like, you know,
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if you want to give me somewhere good to eat, I'll surely go there.
So they catch their limit and my little brother still hasn't caught a trout.
So we went and we kind of took their place when they left and shook hands,
told them it was awesome talking to them and it really
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was really super fun talking to those guys and that's
just like the beautiful thing about fishing is
people you you meet along the way so me and my little brother took ended up
transitioning into their spot and that's when my little brother caught his very
first trout it's pretty cool i watched it i netted that fish he got excited and it was
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really cool to see and what made it even sweeter
was it was on a fly that I
had tied and you know he was
kind of getting a little frustrated I kind of like before and he was kind of
like battling he was like man he's like starting to get mad he's like I had
to put the rod down for a little bit I was like no don't like just take a couple
deep breaths finally he catches a trout and he's like this is awesome he's like
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this is so much fun we went on to go and catch 30 fish.
My brother my brother by the end of the day was casting a fly rod better than,
better than heck sometimes I do there are videos on my Instagram of that so
if you want to go and check it out go and check it out but you know it was just
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a really fun day got to watch my little brother witnesses I got to witness my
brother catch his first trout on a fly that I tied at that and then met some cool people.
And then at that, I was like, we caught 30 fish all in one.
We didn't, we moved maybe a hundred yards, 30 fish essentially in one hole.
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And it was just one of those days you look back on and I'll probably have a
framed picture of it in my next apartment.
Just like my little brother holding up a trout. Nah, just always remember that day.
It's just, you know, sometimes you just have those days where you look back
on them and And you're like, you know, that was pretty fun.
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Now, you know, that's what makes it all worth it. All the late nights sitting
up tying those flies, all the preparation, all the money you spend on that material.
And to watch your brother catch his first trout on a fly you tied,
that's when I just looked at it and I was like, it's all worth it.
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Something that now, like, we can go and do together. He knows how to do it.
And he has fun doing it and you
know that's just one of those days that it was
all i can really say is i look
back on it one day and i'd be like damn that was pretty
fun but at the end of that
day some pretty heavy rain started rolling in around
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like i want to say 2 30 3
o'clock kind of fished up until that that
time like when it started to like really downpour we're
like all right it's time to go you know but
you know leaving there having a 30 fish day it's like i've left i've left places
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later and have had worse days so you know a little bit of a shortened day but
you know catching catching 30 fish i was like i'll take that but so you know
we get everything everything.
We get everything loaded up and we leave and we're coming, coming through like Asheville.
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And my little brother's like, Hey, where do you want to eat?
And I was like, I don't know, man. I was like, you pick something out.
I was like, do some research, see where you want to eat.
And he's like, let's try this place. 12 smoke. He's like, as much as I kind
of don't really want to say it, he's like, but this is one of the Obama's favorite restaurants.
And he's like, Like this place looks pretty good. He's like, let's go try it out.
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So we ended up going and trying it out.
And a place was called 12 smoke. If you're coming through Asheville or I forget
what, I forget what the, the town was called. It was something spring. Yeah.
Super nice little town, but it
was called 12 smoke. And I'll tell you what their portions were massive.
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Their barbecue was fantastic.
And their collard greens were to dang die for. They had like a little bacon bits in them.
And I was like, man, these dang collard greens make you want to slap your mama.
Actually, it was like awesome. Great barbecue, great little area.
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And And then, you know, we're unloading the car, and I'm looking for, like, my main reel.
I have an Orvis Clearwater on an LL Bean.
It's an LL Bean 4-weight and 7.6. Great rod. Great reel.
And I'm like, I can't find my Orvis Clearwater.
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And my brother's like, oh, shoot. I was like, yeah, I was like,
if I can't find that, I'm like, I'm fucked. I was like, I left it up there.
If I, if I did, I literally turned my car upside down.
Can't find it. Go into my, go into my little bag.
Can't find it. Flip my car upside down one more time. Can't find it.
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And I'm like, oh my God, I left that fly reel up there.
And I was like, that thing's gone. on like i'm
cooked i am cooked i'm gonna have to go buy a new fly
reel tomorrow and like i'm
just cooked i get to thinking and i'm
like you know what i was like it's probably a long shot i'm gonna post in some
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groups on facebook and then message the church that we parked at on facebook
and see if they have somebody out there that can look for it so i message them and they happen to have a.
Event the next day and they're like we'll go ahead and take a look for it he's
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like either way he's like we will be we will be touching base with you tomorrow
whether we found it or not.
So sure enough, I wake up the next day. It's like 9 o'clock, still nothing.
11 o'clock rolls around. I'm watching the last day of the British Open at like 11.
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Sure enough, I get a ding from the Facebook message app. I look down. They found my reel.
And I'm like, no way. I call up my brother.
I'm like, you'll never believe this. I was like that place
that church found my reel and they
are they have it in their hand sent me a picture of it
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and everything and my brother's like dude he's like you could step in shit and
it would turn to gold he's like he's like dude if I lost that reel I'd be cooked
that thing would be gone the minute I put it down and I was like dude I was
like I know man I was like I must have just got too caught up trying to rush
to get out of there when it was thundering and lightning and
downpouring but yep they sent me my reel back so shout out to burnett siding baptist church.
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They ended up mailing me the reel it got here on
monday so thank you to the fine
people at burnett siding baptist church couldn't have
done that without you guys but dude
it was did that like that was just one of those days i was
like oh man it was like from um from 100
like had such an awesome day to zero
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so quick when you lose an expensive reel i'm like
oh gosh but you know everything was fine we
didn't visit any fly shops that trip so i guess our fly shop review on that
one is a restaurant review which i will actually do too if you guys are into
that you like a local restaurant review 12 yeah so i did that with 12 smoke
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but you know that was It was just a great day.
It was good to have my younger brother calling out there.
I was happy to watch him catch his first trout on a fly that I tied.
And it was just a great day.
But that about concludes what I had for our intro and recap episode.
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I just want to thank you guys for listening. And I can't wait to see where this
podcast goes, where it takes us, and how we can do.
But until next time keep them tight go wrangle some trout and talk to you guys next friday peace.
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Trout Wrangler podcast.
I'm your host, Ryan Garrity. And you know, this is a new podcast.
I was thinking about doing this for a while. I have an Instagram page called Rise Fly Charlotte.
And I was asking my sister, I was like, what could make this bigger than it kind of has gotten?
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And it's not too big yet but I want to get it a lot larger than it
is and I was asking my sister who's a marketing major at the
University of Georgia what I could
do to you know gauge more people's interests and
try to get more viewership on the Instagram get the numbers up a little bit
and see where we could take it and my sister suggested a podcast and also a
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website that's also in the works but yeah this is the podcast like I said it's
called the Trout Wrangler podcast podcast,
and I'm going to get right into the introduction, who I am, what I'm doing,
what you can expect in this.
This is mostly what this episode is about, is just introducing myself,
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letting you know what to expect on the show, but I'm also going to go and recap a few trips I've been on.
I've gone to the French Broad River and gone to the West Fork of the Pigeon
River, which both those fisheries are here in the great state of North Carolina,
where I'm actually from.
And my other hobbies outside of fly fishing and fly tying are,
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I'm a big college football fan.
Like I said, my younger sister, who's helped me out with a lot of this,
goes to the University of Georgia.
So anytime I can spend a Saturday in Athens, I'll take up that opportunity in a heartbeat. beat.
If I'm not in Athens, I'm still sitting on the couch on a Saturday watching college football.
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Also a big professional football fan, just a professional sports fan in general.
Grew up in Massachusetts, so I'm actually a massive New England Patriots fan,
Red Sox fan, Celtics and Bruins fan.
So I watch all of those as much as I can.
You can't really get them down here much in North Carolina, so Stream East has
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been my best friend since I actually moved down here from there in 07.
But right now I'm living in Charlotte, North Carolina right below Mount Nile
and Lake and like I just stated I grew up in the great state of Massachusetts,
the city of champions Boston, Massachusetts,
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didn't grow up in Boston but probably about a 45 minute ride from there but
I started fly fishing like really heavily about probably.
My freshman year of high school.
But before then, my uncle Kevin, shout out uncle Kevin, always had a fly rod
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around at family getaways, anywhere with water where we were going,
my uncle Kevin probably had a fly rod with him.
And, you know, probably pretty good idea from the guy because we grew up,
I have 21 cousins or something like that.
It's hard to even count anymore, but large family and, you know, it was cool.
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I would always go down there as always kind of into bass fishing and stuff like that.
So I go down there with Kevin and watch him whack trout on a fly rod and like
a pond in New Hampshire or something like that and you know,
that's where I really like looked at it and was like, dude, fly fishing is pretty cool.
And then I started kind of taking Kevin's extra rod and tossing around with
it a little bit. And I was like, you know, I kind of really liked this.
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But yeah, shout out to Uncle Kevin for the patience, too. God only knows how
many leaders and tippet I messed up at his when I was younger,
literally whipping flies around and how many times I probably hooked them.
But no, but after that, you know, I really didn't start tying flies until very recently.
I worked in the recreation field and, you know,
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getting back from, you know, I was
a youth sports coordinator and getting back from youth sports
games and having to listen to dads say talk
about how oh yeah my kid's probably gonna go d1 and
having to deal with parents yelling at
officials and yelling at coaches and coaches
trying to stack teams coaches running up the
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score on other coaches you know you really kind of
want to come home and just beat the hell a lot
of the pillows on your couch but I kind
of took a different different approach I would
get home from work sometimes nine o'clock
ten o'clock and I'd sit down and kind
of like teach teach myself how to tie flies I've
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watched YouTube videos and sit there
with material I've probably wasted so much material tying crappy
flies when I first started but now I've
kind of took a liking into it and I started up my Instagram page called Rise
Fly Charlotte so if you're on Instagram you want to check it out go check it
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out it's at rise r-y-s underscore flies f-l-i-e-s c-l-t.
So go check out the Instagram page website's coming soon and then like I said
this is my first podcast episode.
I'm kind of trying to take this to be pretty big, but you know,
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before I really got heavily into fly fishing, I was a big bass fisherman, high school,
college, even before high school and college, like even in middle school,
if I wasn't at school or at football.
Lacrosse or practice or something like that, I was out trying to find a pond to fish.
And you couldn't really at that time start
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fishing competitively in tournaments sanctioned by
like a high school BASS stuff like
that couldn't really start fishing those until high school
now they got the junior series if they had the junior series when I was in middle
school I probably would have fished the junior series rather than playing middle
school lacrosse and football and stuff like that but ended up like I said going
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on to fish at East Carolina University for four years,
traveled across the country with a bass boat behind me. I had my own Skeeter bass boat.
And when I wasn't traveling for college tournaments, I was fishing little local...
Start up like wildcat tournaments i had a fun time doing it but you know that bass fishing,
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it kind of got old still going
chase bass on a fly of course but like you know
tournament bass fishing is is very strenuous
and stressful and you know especially around here it's been getting a little
bit dramatic here in charlotte where it's just like you got facebook warriors
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ears going at each other's neck and comments on public forums and Facebook pages.
And I was like, why do we have to do that?
So, you know, I kind of got phased out of it and, you know, got way more into
fly fishing than I already was.
And that's what's led me here.
Tell you a little bit about the show. Probably wondering where I got my name from.
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You know I was sitting at the movie
Twister the other night and you know
Glenn Powell's character and I'll give you a subtle heads up real quick your
girlfriend probably wants to go and see Twister so bad because Glenn Powell
and to save you frustration when you get there be warned your girlfriend will
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be sitting there staring at the screen probably drooling because that's
what my girlfriend did speaking from experience and you know i don't swing that
way but i must say glenn powell he's like first team all handsome you know he's a he's a handsome fella,
no homo but that's where i got my name glenn powell's character he it was like
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tornado wrangler on youtube or something like that and i was like you know what
i'm gonna call my podcast trout Prout Wrangler podcast.
And that's how I figured it out. Sitting there at the Twisters movie.
What you can expect on this podcast. Going to recap. Trips I go on. Gear reviews.
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I'll even do fly shop reviews. Just good stories. Maybe some Q&A stuff.
And here and there I'll have some. I'll have some guests.
And stuff like that. Mostly like my friends. And some guys I know that work at fly shops.
And guides. And I'm going to try and do that as much as possible.
So it's not just me going on an ADD tangent and just rambling to y'all so much
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because it's like that gets old after a while.
And believe me, I could talk the pain off of the house, but guys probably hate that.
But it's just going to be all around just reviews, stories, Q&A,
fly stuff. I'll pick fly of the week every week.
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Just give recaps on trips, stuff like that, like I stated earlier.
But that's kind of what to expect. We may start a YouTube as well here soon
and just start doing the podcast on YouTube.
Tube because i'm kind of like a kind of you know trial running it on voice memos here for right now,
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on on my mac laptop that
i've had since 2015 that the storage
is absolutely running low on this computer could catch on fire at any moment
in my lap and it's probably because there's absolutely no memory and this computer
just heats up and probably catches me on fire like the human flame from that
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movie. I forget what it's called.
Avengers, maybe? Yes, I think it's Avengers. I don't know. I don't usually watch those.
But like I said, I run myself a little fly-tying Instagram page,
little store online that's getting picked up.
And like I mentioned earlier, I started it probably six months ago,
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right before the new year.
Probably a little bit before the new year, but...
I'm just trying to kind of build it as big as I can.
Tie flies, maybe even eventually do some guiding stuff from Charlotte up into
the mountains, taking people from here to go.
It's just like right now, I don't know where it's going to go,
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but I'm hoping it goes to as big as I want it to be.
But, you know, like I said, there's a website on the way.
Me and my little sister are actually working through that as we speak.
She did some stuff on the website. yesterday.
I've been kind of grinding on the website, but let's get into some stuff about my recent trips.
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Last week on Wednesday, I went to the East Fork of the French Broad with one
of my buddies. He's actually a YouTuber.
I'll drop the YouTube in the, I think it's Treyway, but if you just look up
Trey Bradford on YouTube, it pops up.
That video should be coming up pretty soon too. So, you know,
I went with my buddy Trey Brafford and he,
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it was his first, he's fly fish one time before, but he goes between North Carolina
and Florida and he went and peacock bass fished for some, uh,
for some peacocks down in Florida.
And that was the very first time fly fishing.
He called me up and was like, Hey, I went down, caught some peacocks on a fly.
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I tied them up some stuff and send them down to them.
So i caught some peacocks on a fly but he's like i want
to come back up home during july and
august and really dial in the whole trout fishing
thing he's like and actually have somebody teach me how
to do it because he said he was out there just like
trial and error when he was down
in florida so what happened he came back from florida and i was like hey let's
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shoot up to east fork the french broad and that's kind of what i'm going to
talk about here all right if anything changes here I just had to get up and
get a Gatorade because my throat was starting to become the Sahara Desert as we spoke.
So we ended up going up to the East Fork, the French Broad.
And like right now, if you're from Charlotte, if you live in North Carolina,
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it has just been raining every day.
And the trout fishing is very much so taking a hit from that.
Just because it's so hot and the rain just muddies up all the rivers.
But, you know, that doesn't really keep anyone from catching fish.
Fish so leading up
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to going to the french broad like the
three days before it rained almost every
afternoon me being a knucklehead i'm
not thinking you know it's probably raining up there too i'm thinking it's not
raining we get up there day of yeah that that river you can't even see your
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feet in front of you so we get up there and i'm like oh we're already battling adversity here,
and a couple guides walk by and i
were like how you guys doing and they're like oh we caught a couple you know
stereotypical stuff i was like catch any on a dry fly and he was like look at
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the water what do you think i was like you like probably not i'm just trying
to get a gauge on and stuff here, you know, they could hit a dry fly when it's muddy out.
But for like the first half of the day, they didn't hit a dry fly at all.
Just because it was so muddy and it
was high like i'm talking it was high out there on the
french broad river if you've ever been out there you
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know what it gets like when it's high out there but kind of
a little bit sketchy kind of was hard to hard to
see where you're stepping at times not very ideal for like a first time stream
trout fisherman and the fact i didn't have any waders i left my waders at the
house and was just wet wading all i had were some reddington wet weight and
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socks almost took a took a spill a couple times but you know didn't have that happen,
but it was the weirdest thing so throughout like literally first half of the
day i couldn't get them to sniff anything but a squirmy wormy as awful as that
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sounds they wouldn't they wouldn't Didn't even sniff anything.
Pull out a squirmy wormy out of my fly box. First cast of the squirmy wormy. Catch one.
And I'm like, oh, it's going to be one of these days. Where I'm literally sitting
there watching a squirmy wormy drift the entire day.
Little did I know, I didn't have as many squirmy wormies in my box as I thought
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I did. I literally only had about two.
So, once again, battling some adversity. But we got through it.
So you know day goes on 11 o'clock comes around and my buddy gets hung in a
tree i'm down turned around like kind of inspecting some stuff and he's like oh i hear him go oh crap,
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and i'm like what happened and i turn around he's like i just broke your rod bro,
so i walk over i'm like you sure it just didn't come connected disconnected
from where it uh goes in and he was like, nah, that thing's broke as a joke.
Cause so I go over there. Sure enough. Yeah. That thing's broke as a joke.
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So I go, that rod goes out of commission for the day. That wasn't even a 24-hour-old rod.
Brand new three-weight Dogwood Canyon from Bass Pro.
And so, you know, I buy those Dogwood Canyons because it's like,
you know, you go buy it for $80, you break it, you can swap it out within 90 days.
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Pretty good little deal there. So, you know, next day I just went and brought that thing back.
They were out of three weights, but I went and grabbed a four-weight because I was going that Friday.
So we get there every just a list of everything that goes we pull up high muddy
not eating a dry fly just absolutely wild stuff get there just caught me completely
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off guard i was like oh crap.
So all that happens like noontime
12 30 one o'clock rolls around that dry
fly bite for some reason just absolutely turns
on i was drifting a squirmy
wormy across the top of the water one comes
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up yeah smacks that thing i'm talking
absolutely destroys it i'm like
huh all right what's this going on here pull
out an ant pattern from my fly box
tie that thing on toss one up upstream drift it down boom one comes up and gets
it i'm like huh that dry fly light's turning on my buddy throws up with my rod
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drifts it down one smacks it loses it at the bang.
I cast one more up boom one
smacks it miss it
i'm like oh shoot so it's
getting to be like 12 30 to one o'clock that entire window from
like 12 to one it was the craziest dry fly
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fish when we saw all day and that was
about it we went down the mountain to go to uh headwaters outfitters
and then grab some food at that food truck that's always out there and i'll
tell you what i don't remember the name of that food truck outside of forks
of the river tap room that food truck has some of the best dang best dang mustard
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based barbecue sauce that i've ever had and their barbecue was absolutely fantastic.
We get out of there, get done eating. We go into the fly shop,
and I'm talking the bottom absolutely falls out.
There's lightning popping everywhere. You hear thunder going for miles,
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and I'm like sitting there. I'm like, oh, do we wait this out?
Because, you know, sometimes up there in the mountains, you wait 10 minutes.
That storm could be gone, but this one didn't look like it was leaving anytime
soon. So, you know, we stuck around in the fly shop for a little bit and walked
around, let my buddy go into the fly shop. He's never been to that fly shop.
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And that brings me to my very first fly shop review.
I've been to Headwaters Outfitters multiple times before.
You don't get as better of the people that work in this shop.
They're super friendly. friendly they're super
super nice people they'll always
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strike up conversation with you just great customer service
and they're always willing to
help and they have some great product in
there i'm talking like great product all awesome
flies they got great tine material section sell
vices in there they sell about everything you need if something goes wrong on
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the river or you need something like midday it's close enough to the river that
you can just be like all right i'm gonna get in the truck drive on over there
and i'll pick up some stuff midday.
And they'll always lend you a helping hand. Always.
They're just nice people. Probably one of those top-notch fly shops I've ever
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been into. And it's in an absolutely prime location.
As we were leaving, we ended up not being able to fish any longer because that
storm just intensified the longer we were at the shop.
And as much as it bummed me out, we really only got to fish until 2.
And my buddy didn't get much content for his youtube video but as we were leaving
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headwaters i asked one of the guides there and i asked them they usually don't
give information out like this,
to what i've seen and other places i've been but i was taking a trip that friday
with my younger brother to take him fly fishing for the first time and i asked
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him i was like hey i was like uh,
where's the spot that i could take my brother just go
whack away at fish and uh just have him be like make him like let him have a
good time and like really learn how to fly fish and then have a good time that
guide gave me the information as quick as i snapped my fingers which i very
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much so So appreciate it because the information she gave me was fantastic.
But Headwaters Outfitters, if any of you guys are listening to this or by any
chance happen to catch wind of it, keep doing what you guys are doing and just
keep up the good work because you guys are one of the best shops in that area.
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If not the best shop in that area. But that transitions to me,
that guide told me in headwaters to, they're like, go to the West Fork of the Pigeon River.
And I was like, you know, that week I usually don't fish as much delayed harvest
water as I did that week, but I was taking two newer fishermen.
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And I was like, you know, the best place for them to learn and have a good shot
at catching fish, delayed harvest.
Harvest so where'd I take my younger brother Friday West
Fork of the Pigeon River delayed harvest and I
am so glad that that guy told me to come up there I
looked at my GPS when I was leaving my house that morning
I'm sitting there I'm like oh man two hour and 30 minute
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ride I was like I'm that's gonna
be the death me but we woke
up got a little late start I wanted to kind of get
a little late start i've been on go mode that
entire week and i was like
told my little brother i was like hey get to my apartment at like seven o'clock
we'll shoot our way up there and we'll just
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get some good fishing and looked at the weather forecast saw that we had a little
bit of more rain coming in later in the day like a chance of it and i'm not
opposed to fishing in the rain but you know a newer guy you know like they might
not be opposed to fishing in the rain and that That might just make their time absolutely miserable.
So I sat there and I was like, all right. I was like, brother gets in the car.
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We get to going up there. I'm like, Hey, we got some rain coming in later in the day.
If you want to fish through it and the fishing's good, let me know.
I was like, cause it'll be good.
If fishing's good and you want to stay, we can stay as long as you want.
I was like, I don't care if we fish until 2 a.m. The next morning,
they're catching, if we're catching them, we're having a good time. We can stay.
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So the whole ride up there, sat there, talked to my brother for the entire two
hours and 33 minutes, you know, haven't really had that kind of time with him up until recently.
He just got a new job and had some downtime before starting his new job.
So I told him, I was like, you know, he's an investment banker.
That dude, that dude lives absolutely wide open, just high, strong.
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And I was like, Hey, it was like, you want to do something that'll kind of like
relax you, ease your nerves a little bit before you go back on to your new job.
And he's like, yeah, let's do it. So I brought him to the West Fork of the Pigeon River.
You know, we get up there and, dude, for the 45 minutes it was from the East
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Fork of the French Broad, the water clarity and the water quality was, like,
two completely different sides of the spectrum.
We get up there to the Pigeon River.
That water is gin clear.
And so I told my brother, I was like, hey, let's about get you rigged up.
Actually tied them on a ant
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pattern dry fly so this is
like you know usually i'll go out there and if i'm
with somebody i'll tie on like a
sinking fly or a wet fly and then i'll have the other person tie on a tie on
a dry fly something like ant pattern you know pats rubber legs parachute something
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like that and then whoever gets bit first it's like If we start catching fish on, say, a dry fly,
then we'll start switching over to dry flies.
If somebody catches one on, say, like a midge or a sinking fly,
we'll switch over to sinking flies.
So we get out there, and there's some people having a picnic to the right of us.
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There's some good-looking water to the right, and then there's some good-looking water to the left.
And there was some kid little
kid and his grandpa straight up whacking on
trout for literally 45 minutes down
on the left i'm talking dude was
straight stroking him i swear
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this kid probably had to have caught seven to
ten fish in a row like three separate times so we're
sitting there watching him we're in like a kind of
like a mid-zone because there's people having a picnic up to the right
of us right on the other side of them good looking
water people down to the left so
it's like you know we kind of got our hands cuffed here
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i was like we could go down catch go
on the other side of them but i was like my back cast and your
back cast are probably going to be in there dang be in
their grill the entire time and it
was like yeah no let's not do that i was like no i don't really want
to do that either to those people looks like they're having
like a family picnic sure enough the people
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that are having the family picnic like maybe 15 minutes later we're fishing
between the two groups 15 minutes later yeah the rest of their people come up
it's two guys with fly rods their hole sitting for those guys i could care less
i was like you know what if we're all catching fish we're all having fun.
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So we're out there like 10 minutes. I go down, I catch, I catch one on a dry fly.
And then I go over to my little brother. He's still kind of learning how to cast.
And my little brother's one of those guys that he will get frustrated super quick.
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So I was kind of like a little bit of nervous because it's like,
if he gets too frustrated, he'll just, he'll just, you know,
let it shut down and just sit there the rest of the day.
So I'm sitting there I'm like oh shoot I was like he's not having a
good time so I go down there to
the the kid and his grandpa fishing and I
walk up to the grandfather and I put my rod down so he knows I wasn't gonna
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come up and like hole hop him I go to the grandfather's like hey you mind if
we move down closer to uh to y'all like I don't want to be on top of you guys
and I was like I I don't want to make your grandson's time anymore.
Like, I don't want to really ruin your grandson's time. If we come,
come up on y'all and we're whipping flies around.
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He's like, no man, come on down. He's like, you're biting like crazy right here.
I was like, yeah, I just watched a kid catch like 40 fish in a 30 minute time span.
He's like, yeah, man, come on down. He's like, we won't bite you.
He's like, we're only two fish away from our limit anyway. Anyway,
so we go down there and we're sitting there hanging out with this kid and his grandpa.
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And, you know, that's just a good thing about fishing, too, is it's like,
you know, most of these people are going to be nice guys.
So I'm sitting there talking to the guy's grandson.
He's sitting there still just straight up destroying them on red worms and a push button reel.
And grandfather's all excited. I'm netting fish for him. from the grandfather's net and fish form.
(28:39):
It's kind of like a joint effort at that point. It's like, help me help,
like, help us help you guys.
We'll help you guys. You guys let us fish over here. So, you know,
we had good conversation.
Hung out with them, super nice people, told us some good places to eat.
And, you know, it's always one of those things. It's like, you know,
(29:02):
if you want to give me somewhere good to eat, I'll surely go there.
So they catch their limit and my little brother still hasn't caught a trout.
So we went and we kind of took their place when they left and shook hands,
told them it was awesome talking to them and it really
(29:24):
was really super fun talking to those guys and that's
just like the beautiful thing about fishing is
people you you meet along the way so me and my little brother took ended up
transitioning into their spot and that's when my little brother caught his very
first trout it's pretty cool i watched it i netted that fish he got excited and it was
(29:48):
really cool to see and what made it even sweeter
was it was on a fly that I
had tied and you know he was
kind of getting a little frustrated I kind of like before and he was kind of
like battling he was like man he's like starting to get mad he's like I had
to put the rod down for a little bit I was like no don't like just take a couple
deep breaths finally he catches a trout and he's like this is awesome he's like
(30:10):
this is so much fun we went on to go and catch 30 fish.
My brother my brother by the end of the day was casting a fly rod better than,
better than heck sometimes I do there are videos on my Instagram of that so
if you want to go and check it out go and check it out but you know it was just
(30:31):
a really fun day got to watch my little brother witnesses I got to witness my
brother catch his first trout on a fly that I tied at that and then met some cool people.
And then at that, I was like, we caught 30 fish all in one.
We didn't, we moved maybe a hundred yards, 30 fish essentially in one hole.
(30:54):
And it was just one of those days you look back on and I'll probably have a
framed picture of it in my next apartment.
Just like my little brother holding up a trout. Nah, just always remember that day.
It's just, you know, sometimes you just have those days where you look back
on them and And you're like, you know, that was pretty fun.
(31:15):
Now, you know, that's what makes it all worth it. All the late nights sitting
up tying those flies, all the preparation, all the money you spend on that material.
And to watch your brother catch his first trout on a fly you tied,
that's when I just looked at it and I was like, it's all worth it.
(31:36):
Something that now, like, we can go and do together. He knows how to do it.
And he has fun doing it and you
know that's just one of those days that it was
all i can really say is i look
back on it one day and i'd be like damn that was pretty
fun but at the end of that
day some pretty heavy rain started rolling in around
(31:58):
like i want to say 2 30 3
o'clock kind of fished up until that that
time like when it started to like really downpour we're
like all right it's time to go you know but
you know leaving there having a 30 fish day it's like i've left i've left places
(32:19):
later and have had worse days so you know a little bit of a shortened day but
you know catching catching 30 fish i was like i'll take that but so you know
we get everything everything.
We get everything loaded up and we leave and we're coming, coming through like Asheville.
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And my little brother's like, Hey, where do you want to eat?
And I was like, I don't know, man. I was like, you pick something out.
I was like, do some research, see where you want to eat.
And he's like, let's try this place. 12 smoke. He's like, as much as I kind
of don't really want to say it, he's like, but this is one of the Obama's favorite restaurants.
And he's like, Like this place looks pretty good. He's like, let's go try it out.
(33:01):
So we ended up going and trying it out.
And a place was called 12 smoke. If you're coming through Asheville or I forget
what, I forget what the, the town was called. It was something spring. Yeah.
Super nice little town, but it
was called 12 smoke. And I'll tell you what their portions were massive.
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Their barbecue was fantastic.
And their collard greens were to dang die for. They had like a little bacon bits in them.
And I was like, man, these dang collard greens make you want to slap your mama.
Actually, it was like awesome. Great barbecue, great little area.
(33:47):
And And then, you know, we're unloading the car, and I'm looking for, like, my main reel.
I have an Orvis Clearwater on an LL Bean.
It's an LL Bean 4-weight and 7.6. Great rod. Great reel.
And I'm like, I can't find my Orvis Clearwater.
(34:07):
And my brother's like, oh, shoot. I was like, yeah, I was like,
if I can't find that, I'm like, I'm fucked. I was like, I left it up there.
If I, if I did, I literally turned my car upside down.
Can't find it. Go into my, go into my little bag.
Can't find it. Flip my car upside down one more time. Can't find it.
(34:31):
And I'm like, oh my God, I left that fly reel up there.
And I was like, that thing's gone. on like i'm
cooked i am cooked i'm gonna have to go buy a new fly
reel tomorrow and like i'm
just cooked i get to thinking and i'm
like you know what i was like it's probably a long shot i'm gonna post in some
(34:54):
groups on facebook and then message the church that we parked at on facebook
and see if they have somebody out there that can look for it so i message them and they happen to have a.
Event the next day and they're like we'll go ahead and take a look for it he's
(35:14):
like either way he's like we will be we will be touching base with you tomorrow
whether we found it or not.
So sure enough, I wake up the next day. It's like 9 o'clock, still nothing.
11 o'clock rolls around. I'm watching the last day of the British Open at like 11.
(35:36):
Sure enough, I get a ding from the Facebook message app. I look down. They found my reel.
And I'm like, no way. I call up my brother.
I'm like, you'll never believe this. I was like that place
that church found my reel and they
are they have it in their hand sent me a picture of it
(35:57):
and everything and my brother's like dude he's like you could step in shit and
it would turn to gold he's like he's like dude if I lost that reel I'd be cooked
that thing would be gone the minute I put it down and I was like dude I was
like I know man I was like I must have just got too caught up trying to rush
to get out of there when it was thundering and lightning and
downpouring but yep they sent me my reel back so shout out to burnett siding baptist church.
(36:26):
They ended up mailing me the reel it got here on
monday so thank you to the fine
people at burnett siding baptist church couldn't have
done that without you guys but dude
it was did that like that was just one of those days i was
like oh man it was like from um from 100
like had such an awesome day to zero
(36:48):
so quick when you lose an expensive reel i'm like
oh gosh but you know everything was fine we
didn't visit any fly shops that trip so i guess our fly shop review on that
one is a restaurant review which i will actually do too if you guys are into
that you like a local restaurant review 12 yeah so i did that with 12 smoke
(37:10):
but you know that was It was just a great day.
It was good to have my younger brother calling out there.
I was happy to watch him catch his first trout on a fly that I tied.
And it was just a great day.
But that about concludes what I had for our intro and recap episode.
(37:31):
I just want to thank you guys for listening. And I can't wait to see where this
podcast goes, where it takes us, and how we can do.
But until next time keep them tight go wrangle some trout and talk to you guys next friday peace.
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