There is one thing in common between many of the greatest casting champions and flycasting

innovations in U.S. history. It's tied to a 15-year-old orphan who live to fight in World War II

and return to revolutionize fly rod and flyline design, all with absolute zero education.

It's also tied to the Apple iPhone that you're using right now to listen to this podcast.

And today we're going to highlight for you what makes the Golden Gate Casting Club so

successful and what you can do to improve your flight casting through the inspiration we're

going to dig in today.

This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, and what you can do to give back to the fish species you love. Hey, I'm Dave, host the Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up in a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcast in this country.

I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers than just about anyone in the world.

Jim Dawson, who is the resident historian at the Golden Gate Casting Club, is going to take us on a journey back in time of how the casting club became what it is.

And he's also going to tell us where flycasting comps and clubs start in the U.S.

This goes back into the 1800s.

You will hear about the flycasting champion, who is the only flycaster who's made the cover of Sports Illustrated.

You'll find out how Jimmy Green created all this innovation, a lot of it, and how he also got into spaycasting late in life and created this device, which gave him a wedgy every time

he tried to use too much top hand on his spay rod. We get a Jimmy, some Jimmy Green

stories, and we also find out how the hollow rod tube concept started right here at the Golden

Gate Casting Club. So much today, I just want to dig into it. We're also going to hear about

mono shooting lines, mono running lines, and how this all came to be the technology

here. Plus, you're going to find out the story of how Jim became good friends with Steve Wozniak,

Apple co-founder, and a funny story about Steve Jobs. We even get a Steve Jobs story in here

about why you want to avoid Steve on the elevator. So we're going to be jumping around, having a good time here today, and we're going to take it back in history, and we're going to take it back to the reason why you will know why all the technology you appreciate so much right now. We're going to talk about where that all came from. Here we go. Jim Dawson from g-gac-c-O-R-G. How's it going, Jim? Going good. Good. Good, good. This is a long time coming again, like some of these we do. We've heard a lot about the Golden Gate Casting Club from whether it's Tim Ray-Jepf, you know, Maxine McCormick, you know, lots of, it's just the name that's

out there. And I know it's, it's one of these places that's kind of top of the world. Like, this is where everybody goes for the spayorama. And we're going to talk about that. We're going to go deep on the Golden Gate Casting Club. But before we get there, let's jump into your background in fishing and fly fishing? What's your first memory? How'd you get into it?

...