Is it better to purchase a drift boat or a raft for fly fishing? Do you know which of these two

options is the better all-round purchase if you can only get one? And what about rebuilding an old

boat? Is this a realistic option to save money and maybe get into your first boat? Today,

you're going to hear the drift boat versus raft debate and you will find

out how my guest today restored a boat that barely held water. 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 Webfly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid.

I grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country.

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

Adam Hudson is back on the show to take us into his unlikely boat build-out story and how he took on this project and what happened, how he finished

it up, and where he's had next. Adam and I debate the benefits of the drift boat versus the raft.

We find out which raft he recently purchased that has a hard floor. And we also get his

top streamer patterns from Blue Line. Plus, we're going to hear what it was like to finally row this

boat down the green river and whether it passed the test. The battle of the boats is finally here.

Let's get into it. Adam Hudson from bluelineflies.com. How you doing, Adam?

Good, Dave. Thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.

Yeah, I think the first episode we talked, it was episode 540. We talked kind of fly design,

Blue Line Flies, we talked like Smallmouth Bass, some things that you do that a little bit

differently out there. So we'll put a link to that in the show notes so people can get caught up on your background. And then today we're going to talk boats because you're, you know, we also talked to the last one about your land rovers and stuff. But this is going to be a boat buildout kind of awesome story here. And we're going to talk rafts and drift boats, too, to give somebody an idea of what they need to know before they kind of think about getting a new boat. So that's where we're at. Maybe take us back since the last episode. It wasn't that long ago, but maybe, you know, this year, Blue Line Flies, tell us a little bit about for somebody who didn't catch that last one, who you are and what you do out there. Yeah, absolutely. So we are a fly company. I mean, that's my, my bread and butter is selling flies,

but we kind of got started out specifically for bath flies. So I used to work in a shop,

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