The Barbless.co Fly Fishing Podcast with Hogan Brown

Hogan sits down with Tema Roby and Julia Mitchell near their one-year anniversary of starting their non-profit Rising to the Fly which works to break down barriers to make fly fishing accessible and inclusive to all women. Enjoy their story and learn more here https://risingtothefly.com

Hogan sits down with RJ Hosking of Rare Waters. Rare Waters is a new online booking company similar to Air BnB working to connect anglers with private landowners on private waters throughout the West. While "private water" holds a very different connotation in California than other places in the West, what Rare Waters is doing by providing cheap ($125-175 a day) access to world-class fis...

Capt. Ben Thompson spends more days guiding the Lower Yuba River than any other guide right now and has been on the river this entire winter and early spring so there is no better person to give an update and forecast for the coming spring and summer of one of Californias most popular, challenging, and productive tailwaters. Check Ben out at www.benthompsonoutdoors.com or www.calbassunion.com

Hogan welcomes Adam Andreini of www.fishadam.com to come on the show and talk about guiding and fishing for Dinosaurs aka Green and White Sturgeon. Adam spends all year as a fishing guide for Stripers, Salmon, Shad, Trout, and Sturgeon on the Lower Sacramento River as WELL as hosting Eco Tours and has been a friend of Hogans for years. While Sturgeon are not top of any fly angler's list they a...

Hogan welcomes Phoenix Arizona Fly Fishing Guide and Owner of Low Water Outfitters Derek Rivchin to the podcast to discuss why anyone in their right mind would want to be a fly fishing guide in Phoenix AZ... and of course what amounts to all the cool fishing in and outside of Phoenix AZ. From walking canals to polling flats and wading rivers Derek has found it in and around the Phoenix metro area....

Hogan and James sit down and talk about the state of Nor Cal water storage as well as how the current winter is setting us up for the coming season. Then they get into the state and future of our salmon fisheries. While salmon are not always high on fly angler's list of species they are important to the health of many of our more popular fisheries ie. Trout and Steelhead. As well as being the most...

You may not know Dom, but I am sure you have watched or seen his work. If you have watched any of the Loon Outdoors fly tying videos, feature films, or looked at Loon Outdoors social media you have seen his work as well as many other outdoor and lifestyle brands Instagram, YouTube, or websites. His Tools of the Trade series and Different Places Different Fish series push story telling into new rea...

Macala is one of the most talented young photographers in fly fishing. If you look at her photos and the places she has traveled to take them you would think she is a salty veteran. She grew up on the Texas Coast with her twin brother and father who are avid fly fishermen and instead of picking up a rod at a young age she picked up a camera and has never looked back. Honestly, she has never even c...

Nick is the Community Manager for Lamson Waterworks Reel and Rod company in Boise Idaho... that said he is an aficionado of all things bass! It is not easy being a bass fisherman in Idaho where trout is king but Nick pulls it off and has a full slate of bass fisheries to choose from. Nick also travels the world chasing some of the most obscure fish around. With roots in South America he has found...

Rachel literally grew up in a fly shop as her Dad David started working at the Anglers Covey in 1996 and bought the shop in 1999 with her mom Becky. Moving it from a small house-based shop to an 8500 sq foot retail space that includes Colorado Tackle Pro conventional angling shop, Pikes Peak Outfitter paddle sports shop as well as the Anglers Covey Fly Shop. Rachel has done everything under the su...

Hogan at the Barbless Podcast is Co-Releasing an episode of the Wet Fly Swing Podcast where Hogan sits down and talks with Dave Stewart about Northern California Striper Fishing and his history in Fly Fishing. Make sure to check out all the back episodes of the Wet Fly Swing as Dave hosts a bunch of great guests https://wetflyswing.com/

Captain Bryce Tedford was raised on Bainbridge Island Washington where he grew up Fly Fishing for Silver Salmon, King Salmon & Sea Run Cutthroat. He began guiding in 1997 out of High School, his guiding travels have included various rivers & lakes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Argentina & Chile. Unlike many people who live In Oregon, Washington, or really any western state besides Cali...

Whitney Tilt the Executive Director of the AFFTA Fisheries Fund stops by to talk about what the organization is up to. Hogan and Whitney take a look at this year's Grants that have been given out, why conservation at a national level to a local level is important, and why it is important we all get involved on some level in protecting our fisheries and wild places.  The AFFTA Fisheries Fund w...

Adam Hudson from North Alabama joins Hogan to talk about fishing in his home state of North Alabama, his company Blue Line Flies, and how he teamed up with Scottie Finanager of Wild Fly Productions and a few close buddies to buy a "Short Bus" off Craigs List, convert it into a mobile fish camp, travel the west, and make videos about their travels.  https://wild-fly.com/ https://www.bluelinefl...

Hogan is starting off Season 6 of the Barbless podcast by answering a series of listener-submitted questions... "What tips do you have for fishing the Yuba?" "Of all the knowledge you've gained on the water fishing for striped bass, what was the hardest to learn or figure out?" "PB (personal best) of all the species you regularly target? Favorite species to target and why?"

Jennie and Jen founders of Nor Cal Women on the Fly stop by the house to talk about the women fly fishing club they created to find women to fish with, learn more about fly fishing, and build a community amongst fellow women fly fishers. Hogan and the ladies talk about the hurdles of getting into fly fishing as a women, where the industry can do better to be more inclusive, and how men and women l...

Hogan and Corrine talk about starting a business with her husband, being a woman in the fly fishing industry, bird watching as a hobby, home gardening, world travel, and her work to leave the fly fishing industry and places we love a better place than she found it. Check out www.repyourwater.com !!!

Matt Callies head product designer for Loon Outdoors and Manufacturer Representative for 17 brands in the Fly Fishing industry comes on the show and teaches Hogan about Euro Nymphing! Explaining the basics to the nitty-gritty about this deadly technique and in-process convinces Hogan he needs to learn. Matt has been on the Euro nymphing kick since the very early stages of the movement selling...

Dr. Scott Joyce is known as the Fly Fishing Chiropractor to many in Northern California. His passion for the sport of fly fishing, athletics, and health makes him an amazing resource for body mechanics with regards to fly fishing, and the best ways to stay in shape and healthy to get on the water. Hogan considers him his body mechanic equally important to his boat and truck mechanic. Listen as Sco...

Tom Bie editor and founder of the drake stops into talk about running a Literary and News Magazine in the digital age in the Fly Fishing Industry works... How he turned a 1974 Mercury Marquis into a cultural icon in the fly fishing world nearly 10 years ago...How he took the idea of a film festival from the Ski industry and a bunch of footage of fishing trips and turned it into the Drake Movie Awa...

Hogan talks with AFFTA (American Fly Fishing Trade Association) Executive Director Capt. Lucas Bissett about the state of the fly fishing industry, what AFFTA the sole trade organization for fly fishing does for the industry, its members, and the work the Fisheries Fund does on a national, and local level. Lucas came up as a fly fishing guide in SE Lousianna for the last decade and has seen his ho...

Al Q (https://alquattrocchi.com) Southern California Salt Water Pioneer and friend of the program Chef Josh Schwartz have come together to form a new Travel Company focusing on food and fishing. Learn more about how these two are re reinventing fly fishing travel and putting their own spin on the decades old fly fishing lodge experience via their company Travel Creel. https://www.creelhospitality....

George Revel grew up in Redding CA amongst the trout and steelhead rivers of Shasta County. Eventually relocating to San Francisco after high school and working in various fly shops in the city he decided to open his own shop, Lost Coast Outfitters, in the back of a small men's shop in SF. Now Lost Coast Outfitters is THE fly shop in San Francisco, a city with one of the richest fly fishing histor...

Josh Schwartz would tell you humbly his job is to cook food for people... the reality is he is a Michelin Star Chef who cut his teeth at Bouley with Chef David Bouley and has worked, and helped start with Thomas Keller, the French Laundry, Bouchon Bistro, Bouchon Bakery, and Per Se and now is Executive Chef at Del Dotto Vineyards in Napa Valley. Combine this with a passion for fly fishing you have...

Ryan Williams is a pioneer of the Float'n Fly Game as a guide and this winter took a huge step, bringing the fly game to the conventional tournament bass trail by fishing in the Wild West Bass Tour. Learn how a fly angler adapts to conventional bass tournament fishing and comes out on top.