Cut & Retie

This week, legendary West Coast steelhead guide Rick Matney brings vodka to the prom and dances with Mr. Bubbles, we get shot at by ranch owners while catching 30-inch browns, steam to Russia to shoot Donner and Blitzen for crab bait, and tie three Wooly Buggers together years before that was cool. 

This week, Joe and his best bud, Mark Wizeman, road trip for steelhead through the rusty streets of Snag City, we snore so badly that we can't even enjoy Toronto, trade six dozen cookies for a shot at low-water glory, and pass on a crack den to cozy up to the power plant outflow.

This week, Drew Price and Rowan Lytle drive 9 hours to catch lily pads, sticks, and bubble guts from terrible diner food, we call snakehead AAA from the side of the Turnpike, decide that barometric pressure isn't even a real thing, and check off bucket list species in the middle of a graveyard.

This week, Hank Shaw of "Hunt, Gather, Cook" throws a D battery at me for calling pork roll by its proper name, we goad you into eating carp, bowfins, and fishing on super-dirty party boats, take the mystery out of General Tso's deep fried shark skins, and discuss why fly anglers are all bark and no bite.

This week, former Penn State bass team captain, Derek Horner, pulls a gun on a dealer and shoots down trout fishing, we celebrate a tourney win by splurging on Bojangle's chicken, use our forward-facing sonar to see into the weird future of bass angling, and stroll our way into disappointing striper and muskie captures.

This week, John Bullock of Old School Outdoors and Captain Eric Kerber do kick flips off the eel tank, we catch flatheads with a mystery tuna rod, grind our way through a job at Roy Rogers, and license the Misfits logo for a new line of sun shirts. 

Play along with this ultimate "Jaws" quiz for a chance to win nothing but people calling you a dork for knowing so much about "Jaws."

This week, movie nerds and podcasters Dave Maccar and Tom Margaretta white-knuckle it 33 miles through angry seas and rental late fees, we explain why a bloody shark movie is perfect for children, fail to hit the broad side of a Megalodon with our harpoon guns, and tie an extra barrel on our college book bags. 

This week, fishing guide and Hot Water Music lead singer, Chuck Ragan, attacks the golf course pond with a 17-inch fly, we trash the study hall with a bucket of live bait, split the proceeds of T-shirt sales to upgrade our vises, and choose the wrong day to salmon fish in Scotland.

This week, Nate P. and Tyler Winter join the Midwest tour of bowling alleys and vintage bath tubs, we whiff on buffalo and get bowed up on swamp lords, give those pesky smallmouths a piece of our disappointed minds, and target panfish with 27-pound monofilament.

This week, Miles Nolte returns from New Zealand to hammer sipping smallmouths in a Chevy Malibu, we steal Tim Landwehr's drift boat and hook some dam pike, find the worst cheese curds in Wisconsin, and spend 20 minutes explaining the inner workings of a Tater Tot. 

This week, spear fisherman, party Adonis, and artist Chris Stewart swims toward a man eater and documents your most drunken moments, we study strip club polaroids and argue over cup size estimates, nearly take our faces off with a mahi-mahi drone, and smuggle a snakehead into the VIP room. 

This week, Jersey Riggs creator, Jeff Cammerino, tells us how rock and roll meant more than being the next big thing in soft plastics, we compare largemouths to construction workers, catch everything with a heart of shiny gold, and explain why you never use a different lure even though you keep buying tons of new lures.

This week, veteran fly guide, Joe Demalderis, and artist Mike Sudal navigate a hostile homeless camp while looking for happy carp, we freeze and thaw for hot nighttime brown action, see aliens on our porch even though we're sober, and wear our trout vests to the Ren Faire.

This week, Reed "The Fish Monger" Brand teaches us how to tell our friends they suck at filleting without hurting their feelings, we inspect the gills of a largemouth viewed 1 million times, feed a family of five with the tails of golden tilefish, and skip out on football to go lobstering in a gale.

This week, legendary guide and writer, Steve Dally, shoots high-velocity AA batteries at giant, venomous sculpins, we fail to land a single tarpon after getting easily 100 shots, almost get locked up for sea shell smuggling, and watch a massive trout get caught by a massive A-hole.

Learn how to break the news to your boss's escort that she's 100 miles offshore and won't see land again for a really long time. 

This week, Captains Eric Kerber and Darren Dorris navigate us to the casino buffet with nothing but a compass heading, we spend $35,000 on poles to help us catch tiny bonito, learn why striped bass love the smell of diesel fuel, and invite Lavar Burton to read us the flounder regulations. 

This week, lure maker Dennis Perko and tattooer "Sideshow" Brian Woolverton fight over who gets to drive the Milf Hunter 5000 to the fishing expo, we stuff a water wolf in the freezer and financially ruin our parents, glide bait our way to internet trolling, and die eating Montana sushi. 

This week, Joe and his best bud, Mark Wizeman, muscle through a show after chasing a 5-year-old rainbow slayer around all day, Pastor Ted drops by to bless their quest for "orange trout," we get kicked out of a bar for underage flyfishing, and impress the ladies with our mud stockings.

This week, veteran Niagara River guide Frank Campbell trades fish heads for seedy massages, we put antiseptic ointment on the lips of smallmouth bass, ruin the life of a lady from Kentucky, and upset an Englishmen by kicking his fish into the strip club.

This week, Mark Davis of "BigWater Adventures" fights the oldest oak tree in Texas fueled by one sip of Coke Zero, we see who can handle more dorsal spines to the back of the calf, struggle to reel in the head of a dead amberjack, and wrestle a goliath group after our flip flops absorb a lightning strike.

This week, media legend Steve Quinn of In-Fisherman gives us pointers for catching eels in Manhattan, we bomb job interviews arranged by our moms, learn why bass got no respect in 1989, and allow our kids to squander careers in Major League Baseball to catch more pike. 

This week, master fly tyer Brandon Bailes reminisces about his grandad's trout theft operation, we slice our fingers off on live television, teach OCD people how to organize their healing crystals, and improve our wet fly game by being completely ignorant about how to fish wet flies. 

Jimmy Fee teaches us how to spotlight for blue claw crabs and become a family outcast on vacation by eating too many of them.