Sagebrush Wisdom

If fishing was easy, they would call it catching. The wide range of emotions found in these leisure activities sure do have an impact on us -- from euphoria to despair... But what do we do with these?  In today's episode I'm talking to my friend, Darren Bagwell, who by day is a Marriage and Family Therapist, but in his off time, loves to find adventure and build relations with those around hi...

Iowa raised, goose and duck hunter, deer stand extraordinaire, moved to California coast in 2018. The Ocean called to him, and he responded, getting into spearfishing and furthering his hunting skills, but this time underwater. What started as a simple task, has led to a life full of adventures, and finally his first yellowtail out on Catalina island. Cody is not faint of heart, a life well lived,...

Jen Barton created Full Plume Photography in 2018 with her love of being outside and growing passion for waterfowl through California and beyond. A hobby quickly became a passion taking beautiful photos of lots of ducks and geese. She fully immersed herself into duck hunting, traveling thousands of miles, and going on many adventures to both shoot photos of ducks and also hunt them. It's exciting...

From backcountry archery hunting elk, fly fishing for big trout, even lobster diving when she can and so much more, Logan gives a picture of what being a woman of the wild means to her. From her beginning interest of hunting, and fishing, to being out on many backcountry hunts weeks at a time. Logan talks about her love of elk hunting, overcoming being uncomfortable with the cold, leaning into emo...

Spearfishing isn't quite like anything else I've ever experienced, and being good in such a foreign landscape comes at no easy task. In this episode my guest, Mitsuki Hara, talks about her experience spearfishing for, and harvesting the current women's world record for White Seabass, aka the ghost... and so much more about spearfishing. Mitsuki loves the ocean, loves animals, and her and her husba...

For a long time climbing a mountain a strong metaphor to aid in telling the hero's journey. In this episode, my friend Connor, talks about how he, climbs a literal mountain, as he ran a full marathon to the top Mt. Whitney and back down a few years back, but also talks about how this challenge seemed to act as a moment of clarity going into the rest of life. A small Business owner, photography, vi...

In this episode, my friend Mike Borchard and I talk about his dream to pursue Bluefin Tuna in our local waters of Southern California. Starting about 3 years ago, to current, Mike has not stopped following after this dream with many great stories of success and heartbreak. We discuss where this fever for Bluefin came from, and how it is going currently, mixed in with plenty of wisdom about commitm...

In this episode, I sit down with Eric Chan, Wildlife biologist specializing in habitat conservation and endangered species for California DFW, and talked about his love/obsession for Southern California Waterfowl and Turkey Hunting. Southern California may not be a paradise to pursuit either of these animals, but that doesn't seem to stop Eric at all from making the most of it. f Duck hunting down...

Most people would not think of the coast off of Western Washington as a paradise for salt water flying, but they haven't met Josh Phillips, Co-owner of Spawn Fly Fish. In this episode, I get to sit down and chat with co-owner and co-founder of Spawn Fly Fish, and talk about his adventures of fly fishing, fly tying and owning a small business. From fly fishing for rockfish off of a jetty, to pursui...

In this episode, Dave Allee owner of Almond Surfboards and Founder of Windward Westward talks about his pronghorn and elk hunting experiences as a southern California hunter. From growing up in Costa Mesa, CA and shooting BB guns to traveling to Idaho after majestic elk, Dave paints a beautiful picture of what many hunters and anglers from southern California celebrate, struggle with, and spend th...

In this episode, first we get to hear from Owen's Valley Orvis Endorsed guide, Luke Kinney from Golden Trout Guiding Co, hear about how he started fly fishing and how he likes to guide and fish in throughout Eastern Sierra. From there, he offers helpful tips, tactics and basic understandings of how to fish well throughout the Owens Valley and then with friend and past client of Luke's, Ty Adnani w...

This is just the beginning, the ethos, the laying down of foundation of what this podcast is and what I hope for it to become. You will hear a brief introduction of who I am and my background, but more importantly you will hear about where I want to go.  I have wanted to make a podcast for a long time, but here, finally now, with the intersection of the Outdoors of fishing, hunting ect... and...