Captain Matt Schliske is a fly fishing guide and custom bamboo rod maker. Born in Wyoming, his grandfather and great grandfather were Cowboy State trout fishing cattle ranchers. He grew up fishing and hunting throughout the Rocky Mountains and has guided on many of the beautiful rivers in Wyoming and Montana.

A bamboo fly rod fanatic, in 2005 Schliske started his custom bamboo fly rod company and has made quality bamboo fly rods by hand for anglers all over the globe ever since.

Schliske founded Pig Farm Ink in 2012 with friends Jay Johnson, Mark Brown, and Chip Guthrie, with the motto of "Fly Fishing Saves Lives."

Jesse Males is an avid fly fishing, snook snatching, kayak paddling, tarpon slaying, mountain hiking, manatee swimming fool from Central Florida currently living the high life in the jungles of Costa Rica – you may remember him as our first guest on Episode 1 of the Flymen Fishing Co. Show!

Jesse is a father, a husband, a fly tyer, and passionate outdoorsman. Not only is he the owner of Backwater Fly Fishing, but also the fly tyer at his online fly shop, backwaterflies.com, his way of sharing some of his findings, in hopes to encourage others to get up off the couch and enjoy nature at its best.

In addition to spinning bugs for money, Jesse is one of the guides/owners of 506 Outdoors, a premier adventure guide service in Costa Rica. 506 Outdoors offers jungle trout fishing, machaca fishing float trips, Pacific coast kayak fishing, as well as overnight beach camping tours to remote sections of Costa Rica.

Frankie Marion is the owner of Xplor Boatworks. Born from an idea for a film project out of a garage in Columbia, South Carolina, Xplor Boatworks was a thing before it was a thing. Frankie wanted to build a boat for a film project called the Xplor Project. He needed a skiff that would allow him to traverse across the vast Louisiana Delta unaided for an entire month. This skiff needed to have enough storage to carry gear for multiple people, be agile enough to get into the deepest pockets of the marsh, and be built well enough to withstand everything the team would throw at it.

The trip was not only a success in that Frankie was able to complete the film project, but also that the boat exceeded expectations. Upon returning to the dock, Frankie had several requests for boats, just like the one he had built for his expedition. Thus, Xplor Boatworks was born.

Allen Gillespie is co-owner of 3 Rivers Angler, a fly shop and fly fishing guide service in Knoxville, TN. Their unique location in the Tennessee Valley places them within an hour’s drive to either small, remote rhododendron-choked streams tucked high in the Smoky Mountains or the large wide open tailwaters located in the valley. Whether it’s crawling from pool to pool casting dries to weary brook trout on the high altitude streams, stalking super selective brown and rainbow trout on the tailwaters of the Clinch and Holston Rivers, or chasing trophy smallmouth bass on one of east Tennessee’s many blue-ribbon warm-water resources, 3 Rivers Angler guide service has got you covered.

The Indian River Lagoon is an amazing shallow-water fishery where sight fishing for redfish, speckled trout, tarpon, snook, and many more species reigns supreme.

The Indian River Lagoon is located less than an hour east of Orlando along Florida’s Space Coast and is one of the world's most biodiverse saltwater estuary systems. This is central Florida’s premier fishing destination.

Captain Rick Worman takes great pride in his work ethic, knowledge, and ability to put his clients on fish in this incredible fishery. His passion, patience, and positive demeanor helps his clients keep their nerves in check so they can confidently present their fly to that fish of a lifetime!

Raz Reid has had plenty of adventures through his fly fishing career. Raz has held 19 fishing world records since 1985, and before taking up fly fishing during his time in Australia, he was an All-American and professional tennis player.

When you have Keith Rose-Innes on the podcast, you know it's going to be a banger of an episode!

Keith is co-founder of Alphonse Fishing Co., a fly fishing lodge and guide service in The Seychelles, and you may also recognize Keith from Shilton Reels and the popular Alphlexo Crab saltwater fly that originated at the lodge.

Crooked Creek Holler was started in 2014 as a creative outlet for Danny Reed to try his hand at making wildlife-inspired gear for a different type of market. He felt that a lot of people in the outdoor world didn’t have a brand that represented them well, leading to their concept of "goods and gear for the modern outdoorsman."

As an angler and outdoorsman, every design Danny creates is based on a personal experience. From floating down the river in pursuit of smallmouth, or traveling the world in search of exotic species, Danny is always looking for inspiration in the great outdoors.

Danny views Crooked Creek Holler as his opportunity to share his art and the talents of many other artists and friends. He tries to offer fresh ideas and images that break away from standard branding, with a more hand-drawn feel. While on occasion Crooked Creek Holler utilizes digital mediums, they try and retain that unique vibe you only get from “hand-crafting” art.

Danny thanks everyone who supports and wears Crooked Creek Holler. He thinks it's been crazy to watch the organic growth over the years into something he could never have imagined. What started as a passion project, is now a fully operational small business and he is looking forward to what the future holds.

Paul is a fly fishing artist and owner of Flood Tide Co. 

Paul feels fortunate to have stories from fishing all over the world with some of his good friends in places such as The Seychelles, Honduras, The Bahamas, Argentina, Cuba, Yucatan of Mexico, and the greater US.

This is by far our longest podcast to date, but if you enjoy fishing talk this is the episode for you!

From the Gummy Minnow to Game Changer style flies, fly tyer and professional guide Blane Chocklett has been at the forefront of progressive fly design and fishing tactics for species ranging from trout to musky for over twenty years.

If you've ever crossed paths with Dave Grossman, editor and co-publisher of Southern Culture on the Fly, you know he's certainly an entertaining character.

What is Southern Culture on the Fly? As described on by Dave on the fresh new SCOF website:

"Like a train hurtling recklessly down the mountain, SCOF has been defining everything that matters in fly fishing since 2011. One-half photographic artistry, one-half basic knowledge of the English language, and one more gratuitous half fart jokes (just for good measure), SCOF is the most unique and community-driven fishing publication out there."

The new Spring SCOF issue is fresh off the digital press and available to you for free on the SCOF website.

You can also check out a SCOF haiku by Flymen show host Scotty D!

Mike Smith, the man, the myth, the legend! 

Mike first met Flymen founder and CEO Martin Bawden in the early days of Flymen and has been a huge part of Flymen ever since as a fly designer and lead smallmouth guru among his many contributions to the flies and fly tying materials you know and love. His signature flies include the Skull Daddy Crayfish, Foxy Shrimp, Forage Fly, Saltwater Forage Fly, River Creature, Salt Creature, and Egg Sucking Flash Minnow. 

Mike is the owner and operator of New River Fly Fishing and in addition to guiding his native Virginia waters, he hosts trips to East End Lodge in The Bahamas. 

East End Lodge was completely flattened by Hurricane Dorian. Mike recently returned from a trip to East End Lodge where he saw how the crew rebuilt the lodge from scratch and got back on their feet. If you have been following East End Lodge on Instagram you may have seen the rebuilding process in their stories. Truly inspiring! 

While at East End Lodge, Mike reeled in some big bonefish with the new Micro Alphlexo Crab fly pattern, and the East End guides were highly impressed with how the bonefish responded to this new fly pattern. If you're looking for a bonefish trip be sure to check out East End and Mike's hosted trips there. 

On top of all of this, Mike has written five fly fishing books, known as the Angler’s Guide Series, and he's a college professor! 

How does he do it all? We don't know. Enjoy the episode. 

Capt. Chris Siess is the owner and head guide of Knot the Reel World Fly Fishing. Chris has been fly fishing since the age of nine, when his mother booked him lessons with well known fly fisherman, fly tyer, and bamboo rod builder Hank Woolman. That lesson led to a pretty bad obsession for chasing fish with the long rod. Chris spent his childhood catching bass in local Virginia farm ponds and saltwater species on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Big time college football and family tradition drew Chris to Blacksburg, Virginia for his college years at Virginia Tech. There he fell in love with southwest Virginia; specifically its hikes, views, and of course the New River and local trout waters.

Post college, Chris spent several seasons playing in the mountains of Colorado as a ski bum and fly fishing guide. Working for Aspen Outfitting Company, he was able to fine tune his trout skills on the extremely technical Roaring Fork River. Chris has since returned to Virginia to chase the multitude of species available in the Old Dominion. Chris spends nearly as much time tying as he does fishing. From first tying simple flies with the hair off the family pet Border Collies, he now designs flies for fish all over the world.

You can contact Knot the Reel World Fly Fishing at 571-334-4721 or knotthereelworld@gmail.com.

Captain Matt Schliske is a fly fishing guide and custom bamboo rod maker. Born in Wyoming, his grandfather and great grandfather were Cowboy State trout fishing cattle ranchers. He grew up fishing and hunting throughout the Rocky Mountains and has guided on many of the beautiful rivers in Wyoming and Montana.

A bamboo fly rod fanatic, in 2005 Schliske started his custom bamboo fly rod company and has made quality bamboo fly rods by hand for anglers all over the globe ever since.

Schliske founded Pig Farm Ink in 2012 with friends Jay Johnson, Mark Brown, and Chip Guthrie, with the motto of "Fly Fishing Saves Lives." What in the world is Pig Farm Ink? Listen to the episode to find out how they work in crazy ways to bring new people into the fly fishing community!

Schliske has traveled the country with the Fly Fishing Film Tour, meeting many passionate anglers and spreading the good word of fly fishing along the way. In 2014, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, a town he fell in love with on the film tour. He spent three years on the coast getting his Captains license, fly fishing and guiding for redfish, and working at Lowcountry Fly Shop with show host Scotty D! He now splits his time between South Carolina, Wyoming, and Nevada.

Captain John Mauser is a fly fishing and light tackle guide out of Swansboro, North Carolina. He has been fishing the waters of North Carolina for thirty-five years. John spent his youth on the Chowan River in northeast NC hunting for bluegill and bass. The Chowan River was also the location where John first cast a fly rod, throwing little popping bugs at lily pads in search of bass. As a teenager, John became more familiar with the great saltwater fishing available along the coast.

John graduated from UNC Wilmington with a Marine Biology Degree and soon started working for the North Carolina Aquariums. For the past 15 years, Mauser has called Swansboro his home and has spent a great deal of his time learning the local waters. John and his wife have two sons, a ten-year-old and a four-year-old, who always keep life interesting. 

John helped establish the local Crystal Coast Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Program, which rehabilitates disabled military veterans through fly tying and fly fishing activities. Six years later, John is still an active volunteer with the program, assisting with casting instruction, fly tying, and fishing trips for the veterans.

In 2014, John helped re-form the Cape Lookout Albacore Festival, and served as a board member for the first five years. The Cape Lookout Albacore Festival is a 3-day event, held each October around the height of the fall False Albacore run.  The Festival consists of a private fishing event for disabled veterans, a public fishing tournament, auctions, dinners, and captain's parties. All of the funds from each C.L.A.F. is donated to Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing at the State and National Levels.

In 2017, John launched Mauser Fly Fishing, a local manufacturer of USA made fly rods. John's love for guiding anglers and giving casting instruction led to the formation of this brand. John will tell you that this company is the most challenging thing he's ever attempted, and he loves every second of it.

In 2019, John worked with a few other local fly fishing guides and formed the Carolina Fly Fishing Academy. The academy offers 1 and 2 day courses based around saltwater fly fishing in the Southeast.

Raised in South Africa, Jako Lucas began fishing South Africa’s fresh and saltwater destinations at the age of four. He represented his country in various competitions throughout his youth before starting his career as a full-time guide in 2006.

Along the way Jako expanded his horizons to include photography and film work, establishing his own action film production company, Captain Jack Productions. Jako’s guide resume includes years of working in Mongolia, Norway, and all throughout the Indian Ocean, including time spent on Astove, Cosmoledo, Farquhar, Providence, and Alphonse. Jako has fished all across the globe and has won numerous awards for his film work.

Dave Klausmeyer has been the editor in chief of Fly Tyer magazine since 1994. He has written numerous books and articles about fly tying, including The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Tying, and now does blogs and webcasts about them as well. His tying techniques are well known among fly tyers.

John Smolko is a world renowned fly fishing guide, waterfowl hunting guide, and photographer.

A lifelong outdoorsman, John has over two decades experience out in a wide array of outdoor pursuits. From climbing Mt. Rainier to offshore sailing passages to motocross, he truly has done it all.

After obtaining a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, John decided the desk life wasn't right for him and committed to pursuing a career in the outdoor industry.

Over the years, John has been fortunate to travel the United States and the world, fishing, hunting, rafting, and exploring while documenting these trips and working with some of the top brands in the outdoor industry.

Drew Chicone is an author, award-winning outdoor writer and fly designer, photographer, lecturer, and materials expert, whose passion for teaching the art of fly tying has inspired numerous how-to articles, books, and detailed instructional guides. He has lived and breathed the sport since he was tall enough to sit at the vise, and his fly creations are well known and in high demand among saltwater anglers and guides across the globe.

Drew has been an FFF Certified Casting Instructor and commercial fly tyer for more than a decade. His patterns are sold in quality fly shops and have appeared in over 70 US and international publications. He is the winner of the 2016 and 2017 International Fly Tackle Dealer Best in Show Saltwater Fly Pattern Award, as well as the 2014 IFTD Iron Fly.

At the beginning of 2018, Drew partnered with Wild River Press books to publish three new titles; “Top Saltwater Flies - Bonefish,” “Top Saltwater Flies - Tarpon,” and “Top Saltwater Flies - Permit.” It’s the most extensive tying-instruction series on the subject ever published.

In addition to his ongoing work as an educator, Drew ties premium saltwater flies for sale through his company: Salty Fly Tying. He is the Director at Maven Rods USA, the co-founder of Strip Strike University, and frequently hosts destination schools and fishing adventures anywhere saltwater species swim.

Steve Dally was raised on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, in Aussie fly fishing terms the equivalent of being raised in Montana. But he'll tell you he squandered his youth in the salt, surfing, diving, and fishing for all manner of species. Finally convinced in his late 20s to grasp a fly rod, an obsession was born. He cut his teeth on the challenging wild brown trout and rainbows of Tasmania’s wilderness lakes and streams before moving to the US in December 2000. A former journalist, Steve spent 3 years in the US as a traveling fly fishing writer and photographer, a job which saw him land, fly rod and camera in hand in Montana, Wyoming, Alaska twice, Baja, New York, Michigan, New Mexico, Idaho and finally Arkansas.

The experience in tackling North American conditions was invaluable as he fished the mayfly hatches of the Henrys Fork, Firehole and Au Sable, caddis hatches on the Big Wood, chuck and ducked beads on the Kenai, stripped streamers on the Beaverhead, splatted hoppers on Silver Creek, found himself tied to 40lb King Salmon on the Ayakulik, and roosterfish and snook in Mexico.

His articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications and websites, including Fly Fisherman and Anglers Journal, and he remains a masthead columnist and regular contributor on tactics, destinations and fly tying with Australia and New Zealand’s premier fly fishing magazine FlyLife.

After flirting with guiding, and several job offers on his travels, Steve started guiding out of the Beaver Dam store, in '04 and ran the fly fishing department, building his knowledge of the White River system from Beaver to Norfork and a substantial and loyal guide clientele, before joining the Mountain River Fly Shop in Cotter in ‘07.

Despite a serious and extensive fly fishing resume, Steve’s laid-back Aussie accent and attitude, sense of humor and self-deprecating wit are appreciated by beginners and experienced fly fishers alike. His mantra is that fly fishing is meant to be fun whether you are catching the biggest fish of your life, tangling around the rod tip and everything in between.

“Tayloe” has been involved in pre-hospital emergency care for the past two decades focusing on remote and wilderness medicine. As director of operations and co-founder of Katabatic Consulting / Finns West he has provided remote medical services from Mount Everest to Antarctica.

Tayloe guides for several fly fishing outfitters in Colorado and for Lakutaia Heli Fishing in Cape Horn-Patagonia, Chile.

Tayloe has combined his passion for fishing with his profession as a wilderness and remote paramedic and educator to create a comprehensive, fun and important service for the fly fishing industry and community.

In this episode you'll hear about Brian's new Knucklehead fly pattern that was featured in the most recent issue of Fly Tyer Magazine.

You'll also hear a funny story about Brian's son acting as his stunt double in his Fly Tester unboxing video.

Right after recording this episode, Brian filmed a tying video for the Flymen Fly Tying Kit for the Glass Minnow Guide Fly, fly design by show host Scotty Davis!