Tackle and Tacos - A Fishing Podcast

Oh Thanksgiving, that time of year where drunken Uncle Fred yells at his cat that's been dead for years. A time when the turkey may be great or may be more dry than you thought was possible. Football dominates the day and children seem magnetically drawn to play games near the open oven and hot stove top. Join us on Episode 32 where we give you a few sure fire ways to RUIN your Thanksgiving this y...

From the very beginning of this show, Nate, Jordan and Lola wanted to have a Taco Expert on the show. This more than fits the bill. A couple months back, Jordan, Lola and the whole fam went to a restaurant called Guac N Roll in downtown Eau Claire, WI. They literally only went because it was close to where they were and they were operating on a tight time table. Turns out the food was amazing, tac...

So there's kind of a funny back story here. Jordan was legit obsessed with Pete when he was younger. When Jordan was younger that is, which I guess meant Pete was too, but I digress. Anywhoo Jordan took a photo with Pete WAY back in the day, the nineties, and tagged Pete on it just a few months ago. Pete liked it, Lola (Jordan's Wife) took the chance to ask Pete to be on the podcast! HE SAID YES!...

HAPPY HALLLLOOOWWEEEEEENNNN!!!! Spooky episode here. Filled with ghosts and vampires and zombies. Wait, no. No, that's not right. It's filled with our new Canadian buddy; Jeff Gustafson! It really does feel that way. Like he's a pal. Just so happens he won the 2023 Classic too! I don't remember the last time we liked someone so much so fast. He has this sorta unassuming way about him that you can'...

You ever meet someone and realize pretty quickly you have a good new friend? That's pretty much what happens here! Lola, Nate and Jordan have an awesome interview with a good new friend named Brian and it turns out he's a heavy hitter and big up and comer in the Musky game! Brian runs a really successful and steady growing YouTube channel called "Angling Anarchy" where he records the anarchy that...

Episode 27! What a cool ride it's been thus far! On this Taco Tuesday Nate, Jordan and Lola take time to shed light on 3 specific taco styles and 3 specific bass fishing techniques that should probably get a lot more love than they do! So, we're calling the 'sode - UNDERLOVED. We say this on the recording a few times but if you're unsure of the tacos or lures or whatever we're talking about, just...

This week we are joined on the tellie by semi-new friend, Mr. Michael Mudgett. Michael is a hammer of an angler, a funny laid back type a dude, and a fishing guide. Roll with us this lovely Taco Tuesday as we discuss tacos of course, being a guide and what to do when the people who booked you can't fish, is forward facing sonar really so evil, and of course we chat about fishing in general and how...

Nate, Jordan and Lola all sit down and basically just chat in this week's episode. We, like always, talk fishing and talk tacos. One of the first things we thought of when we decided to do a podcast with the word "tacos" in the title was to do restaurant reviews. So we finally did it. Nate recaps his experience eating some tacos from a food truck in Iowa and Lola and Jordan talk about a new Mexica...

Well it's about G D time, eh? Curt is a close friend with everyone on this show so it makes sense, being this calendar-close to everyone kicking off deer archery season, that we have the dude on. This is our first ever, and who knows maybe last ever, "DEER STUFF" episode. We are aware that we are a fishing and a taco podcast, but we all deer hunt and will venture to guess that a lot of you do the...

Well, that was fun. 2023, as far as Bass Derby fishing, is over for us. We may jump into a couple random ones, but as far as the stuff we had on the schedule, we done. Have we learned anything at all? Have we grown? Did we have fun? Is all fishing actually fun fishing as we say? Highs and Lows. All of it. We are going to walk through it on this episode. Also, for the first episode in a few, we act...

Here we are with the 22nd installment of Tackle and Tacos and we're already repeating guests. There is a good reason for it though! The Lenfants are here. Marc and Easton, father and son, are great anglers, good friends, YouTubers, they fish a lot of tournaments, plus they also really like tacos. So maybe they'll just have to be regulars on the show! We did shift gears and get a little serious whi...

Luke Dunkin is one of the more recognizable names / faces / voices in bass fishing. Be that from his years as a pro, his announcing on the NPFL, or his super successful video and audio podcast. Or perhaps it's because he's never been one to steer away from controversy. From our perspective, his affinity for controversy is more so just an honest dude sorta calling it how he sees it and a lot of peo...

Another before and after episode. These are special podcasts where we record before a bass tournament, give our thoughts and predictions, then record again immediately after the derby. This one is a bit different in a few ways: 1 - we record two thirds of it on location in Woodruff, WI. 2 - this is actually a before and after and after as its before and then two afters since it's a two day tournam...

Collin Tweten is a young hammer bass angler from darn near the same town as our title sponsor; Grizzly Coolers, in Decorah, Iowa. The dude is just 25 years old and knows his way around the deer woods and the local pools of the Mississippi River. Just a couple days ago Collin was fishing a BFL tournament on pool 9 of the Miss . He decided to run a skinny part of the river to access a new spot that...

In this really awesome episode we have an in studio guest! Bassmaster Opens fisherman Austin Howard joins us to basically talk life, fishing, tacos, custom rod building, dreadlocks and a whole lot more! Austin is one of those rare fellas who makes you feel like you're great friends after knowing him for like 3 minutes. He grew up in Eau Claire, WI and now lives in Colorado where he makes custom ro...

Every angler has been there; on a new body of water, or going to a new body of water and feeling a bit unsure because you've never been on it, never fished it. This applies to fun fishing, going out with the kiddos, prefishing for a tournament or actually fishing a derby. The most basic and necessary question looms - How do I figure out this body of water? It could be a stream, a river, a lake and...

We always wanted our podcast to be more than bass fishing. Make no mistake, we love bass and it's what we know best, but there is something really fun and really cool about learning new stuff! We were told that Cameron would make a great guest from our buddy Curtis and he was right! This dude is humble, articulate, used to bass fish a ton, has a rad Mexican wife that makes bomb tacos, and has caug...

The first ever Bite Size is here. Basically it's just a solo short podcast by one of the three hosts. In this case, it's Jordan sharing a little story from Wal Mart. Not usually the place one would look to positively adjust their life view, but that's just what happened here. SIDENOTE - WE HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT FOR ALL OUR ACTIVE MILITARY AND VETS. THANK YOU! Learn more about your ad choic...

This episode we touch on almost too much to slap a simple title on it. So basically we can just say this; nonsense and some non-nonsense. Here are the topics we touch on today in no particular order camping with kids Nate prepping to fish a frog only tournament Jordan fished a derby on the river positivity bowhunting excitement a Mexican restaurant in Hayward WI and for the first time ever, we too...

This is only the second time we've done a BEFORE AND AFTER podcast. The premise is simple - record a show right before a derby, talk about the prep and practice and make predictions, then podcast immediately after the tournament and recap how it went. Then we roll it all together into one big podcast! The questions we ask before the tournament are - Will you have 5 fish in the well, what will your...

Look here man, you gotta stick with what you know! We know how to fish tournaments, we know how to launch our boats, we know how to burn through gas running around the lake, and we know how to lose! All jokes aside, this episode is really just our thoughts on how to win a derby, but in reverse. There are some practical ideas here, some sorta mental stuff, and a few things in-between. THINGS DISCUS...

We have always wanted to do a lure or presentation specific episode. So being what time of year it is, Nate suggested frogs. "Let's do a whole episode on frogs!" And here we are. Please understand that we are NOT pretending to be experts or act like we know all there is to know about fishing with frogs, these are simply stories and tips and things we've run across in our fishing lives using frogs....

This is what our buddies at Working Class Bowhunter would call a BS session. In this, our 11th episode, we just kinda look back on 2023 at the midway point and discuss what we've learned. As a podcast, as Taco lovers, as anglers, as humans. Sadly this episode is missing Lola as she wasn't feeling too well so it's just Nate and ol' Jordy. Positivity, Tajin, gross taco shells, fixing stuff, stupid t...

This week we finally strayed away from bass fishing to talk some fish with teeth! They say Musky are the fish of 10,000 casts, and while that may be true, we turn to a man on the podcast who has probably caught 10,000 of them; Steve Jonesi. Those in the Musky world know this man well. And there's a reason why - he knows Muskellunge. He knows them well, he spends so much time chasing them that he k...

This is one of the most real life, honest, fun, competitive, intelligent dudes you will listen to. Brandon Palaniuk is a lot more than a fisherman, and this interview really shows it. One thing we are proud of around here at Tackle and Tacos is how different of an angle we take when talking to people. There are a ton of great fishing podcasts that do a superb job of diving into the length of the t...