The Fly Tapes

We're back!  The Writers on the Fly West Coast Tour took place in April 2024, visiting San Francisco, Sacramento, Ashland, OR, and Eugene, OR.  This episode features the San Francisco reading, in which we heard from Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate, George Revel, Anne Landfield and Steve Duda. Timestamps are included below for each story or poem read.  Thanks to our presenting sponsor, Sage Fly Fishi...

In this episode, I sit down with poet Matt Smythe.  From the American Fly Fishing Trade Association : "A freelance writer since 2011, Matt has worked in advertising since 2004 holding positions from business development to creative direction on brands like General Motors, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Thomas & Thomas, and ScentBlocker. He's also a filmmaker and published writer with stories and poetry a...

In this abbreviated version of the 2016 Cascadia Tour stop in Portland, Oregon, we hear from author Cameron Chambers and writer/guide/badass Kate Taylor.  Cameron is the author of the book Chasing Rumor: A Season Fly Fishing In Patagonia , published in 2015 by Patagonia Books.   Kate Taylor owns and operates Frigate Travel , with her husband Justin Crump. Kate and Justin chase the season each year...

In today's episode, we're going back to the early days of Writers on the Fly, with a reading in Bend, Oregon, that started off the first ever Cascadia Tour. This reading happened on November 1, 2016, and featured a handful of great writers and featured photographers as well.  Among the readers in this episode, you'll likely recognize a few familiar voices. Both Amanda Monthei and Steve Duda have b...

Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate swung through the homestead in June, and we sat down to chat about what he's been up to this summer and do a reading of his piece, A Southern Wish, from Issue 8.2 of The Flyfish Journal .  This episode is sponsored by Sage. Check out the recent Trout Season feature at  https://www.sageflyfish.com/experience/seasons/2018-trout-season .  Music by Riverhorse. 

In today's episode, I chat with writer Chris Dombrowski. Chris' most recent book, Body of Water, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2016, though he has been writing and publishing poetry and prose for quite some time.  His work has been featured in Orion Magazine, Terrain. Org, Outside Magazine, and Angler's Journal , to name a few. Most recently, The Drake Magazine featured a profile of David...

In today's episode, I chat with Will Rice, an East Coast native and Pacific Northwest transplant by way of Colorado.  Will's work has been featured in The Denver Post, The Drake Magazine , The Flyfish Journal, and Angling Trade, among other publications. Will sums up his fly fishing and writing philosophy pretty well: "I have always had one guiding philosophy for my outdoor writing: I am not alone...

In this episode, I chat with author Chris Santella about his early life, his ventures into writing about flyfishing, and the challenges of writing a book like Fifty Places to Flyfish Before You Die. We also chat about his most recent book publication, The Tug is the Drug , published by Stackpole Books in 2017.  During the episode, you'll hear a song from Chris's upcoming conservation inspired albu...

First up in today's episode, author Langdon Cook reads "Silver Beach," from his first book,  The Fat of the Land . Langdon is the author of three books of non-fiction, including  The Mushroom Hunters and  Upstream . Find out more about Langdon and his work at www.langdoncook.com . Following Langdon, we've got a reading from author and editor Chris Santella. Chris reads his story, "Nato and the Hum...

In today's episode, I chat with writer, firefighter, ski bum, and former yearbook making wizard Amanda Monthei.  Amanda's work has been published in The Flyfish Journal, The Ski Journal, The Drake, and others. You can find out more about her work at www.amandamonthei.com. Thanks to Sage Fly Fishing for their support of The Fly Tapes. Visit SageFlyFish.com to learn more about the Salt HD family of...

In this episode, I sat down to chat with artist Casey Underwood about growing in California and his development as an artist in the fly fishing world.  Casey's work can be seen on the web at CaseyUnderwood.com , and, more recently, on a series of T-shirts designed for Filson.  Also included in today's show is a reading from Steve Duda of his piece "Impossibly Violent and Savagely Fast," which was...

In this episode, I chat with Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate about his early years in Texas, chasing waves and dreams around the world, and how he approaches writing about flyfishing, among other things.  Riverhorse's work has appeared in The Flyfish Journal , American Angler, Surfing Magazine, The Fretboard Journal, and most recently as part of Sage Fly Fishing's "Saltwater Season." During the epis...

Jay Johnson has chased exotic species of fish all around the world, but if you ask him what really gets him stoked, he'll probably start telling you about the trash clean-up/fly fishing clinics he helps organize as part of Pig Farm Ink .  As a part of Motiv Fishing , Jay helped to bridge the gap between the worlds of competitive bass fishing and fly fishing, and brought adventure fly fishing to a...

From AnglingTrade.com: "Kirk Deeter is the editor of Angling Trade.  He is also an editor-at-large for  Field & Stream  magazine, and the editor-in-chief of  TROUT  magazine, the national publication of Trout Unlimited.  He has written and fished throughout the world, and his work also has appeared in other media including  WIRED ,  Garden & Gun, USA Today, London's Daily Telegraph  newspaper, and...

"Geoff Mueller cut his editorial teeth working the Interior B.C. newspaper circuit. He came to The Drake in April 2010 to head senior editor duties as the magazine transitions into a quarterly publication cycle. He is the former managing editor at Fly Fisherman Magazine and is a frequent contributor at Angling Trade and B.C.-based Kootenay Mountain Culture magazines." (From The Drake Magazine) In...

Amy McMahon likes bugs. I mean, she really likes them. When I visited her in Fort Collins, Colorado, I was amazed by her collection of beautifully preserved and displayed butterflies, dragonflies, and even some huge, crazy insect from New Guinea (I think) that someone brought her in a water bottle.  The great thing about that obsession of Amy's is that she has also translated it into the creation...

In this episode, we take you inside the backbone of The Fly Tapes—Writers on the Fly. This episode features a recent reading in Seattle at the new Patagonia Work Wear store in Ballard.  Part one features readings from Dylan Tomine, author of Closer to the Ground, and Jason Rolfe, founder and host of Writers on the Fly and The Fly Tapes. We'll also hear from Casey Underwood, who was the featured ar...

In addition to being one of the finest writers in fly fishing these days, Steve Duda has devoted the majority of his adult life to the art of editing, helping writers in various genres and disciplines create the very best work that they can. For the past 6 years or so, he's harnessed that drive to curate great writing to make The Flyfish Journal one of the best places in the world to find that wri...

Ann Bodle-Nash lives on a tiny island in northwest Washington State, where for the past couple of years she has been working on earning an MFA in Creative Writing through Pacific Lutheran University's Low-Residency MFA program .  Life has thrown Ann and her family a couple of curve balls over the past year or so, but through it all she fallen back on fishing and writing as a way to get through it...

This week's episode starts off with Will Rice reading a piece about close calls with jet boats while searching for steelhead. It's called "Near Death by the Numbers." Will read this piece in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the 2016 Writers on the Fly Cascadia Tour. Will's work has been published in The Drake , The Flyfish Journal , Saltwater Fly Fishing, and Angling Trade.  Following Will, we'...

Gregory Fitz is a lifelong midwesterner recently transplanted to the PNW. He doesn't work in tech and he isn't a Seahawks fan yet. Minnesotans wear flannel, too, so he might be grunge.  After years of chasing migratory great lakes fish with two-handed rods, he is now in the process of getting a beatdown on the hallowed natal steelhead and salmon rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean. It is an exer...

In 2001, Jeff Galbraith and his wife Jessie Lu moved from Idaho to Seattle and started frequency: The Snowboarder's Journal . Over the next eight years, that first title would be followed by The Ski Journal in 2006, and in 2009,  The Flyfish Journal.  Since its inception,  The Flyfish Journal  has carved out a unique place in the world of arts and letters in fly fishing. Galbraith's dedication to...

Episode 03 of the Fly Tapes features author Langdon Cook. From Langdon's website:  Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table  (Ballantine, May 2017),  The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America , winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land:...

Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Dylan Tomine. In this episode, you'll hear Dylan read two pieces from the Portland stop during the 2016 Cascadia Tour: Luck and Salmon Dreams. You'll also hear us talk a bit about the writing life, how he came upon the idea for his book, Closer to the Ground, and a somewhat roundabout meeting with Thomas McGuane. The Fly Tapes is made possible thanks to ge...

Dylan Tomine is "a writer, conservation advocate, blueberry farmer, and father, not necessarily in that order." His work has been published in The Flyfish Journal , The Drake , and other fly fishing publications. In 2012, Patagonia Books published Dylan's first book, Closer to the Ground: An outdoor family's year on the water, in the woods and at the table. In his forward to the book, Thomas McGua...