668 | Celebrating the Life of Colin Mckeown - Ep 84 Re-released
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/668
Presented By: Togens Fly Shop
If you've ever watched a fly fishing YouTube video, there's a good chance you've come across one produced by today's guest, Colin McKeown. Colin sadly passed away last month, and today I want to re-release an interview I did with him in 2019.
Colin was behind one of the largest fly fishing YouTube channels and inspired many in the industry.
Show Notes with Celebrating the Life of Colin Mckeown.
I want to take this moment to celebrate his life and encourage anyone impacted by his work to reach out to his family, The New Fly Fisher team, or even to me if you'd like to share how Colin inspired you or influenced your fishing journey.
In this episode, we dive into Colin's background, and how he started The New Fly Fisher, and we'll talk about Atlantic Salmon, Newfoundland, and his full story. This is from 2019, and as I mentioned, Colin passed away in September of 2024.
This is a rerelease of Episode 084. If you'd like to listen to the original episode, you can find it here.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/668
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever watched a fly fishing YouTube video, there's a chance you've watched one produced by today's guest. |
| 0:08.0 | Colin McEwen passed away last month and today I want to re-release a podcast interview that I did with him back in 2019. |
| 0:16.0 | Colin has one of the largest fly fishing YouTube channels online and was an inspiration to many around the industry. |
| 0:24.5 | So I want to take this moment today to celebrate Colin's life and to let you know that if you get a chance, it would be great if you can reach out to Colin's family, the new fly fisher, or reach out to me if you listen to this now and are |
| 0:39.6 | interested in letting those folks know the inspiration that Colin was and the help that maybe |
| 0:44.8 | he had on your fishing. So I hope you enjoy this one today. In this episode, we are going to hear |
| 0:51.8 | Colin's background and how he started the new fly fisher we're |
| 0:55.1 | going to talk Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland and we're going to find out just his whole story |
| 1:00.9 | as we move forward here all right let's get into it here we go Colin McEwen RIP this is from |
| 1:07.8 | 2019 and like I mentioned Colin just passed away in September of 2024. |
| 1:15.2 | How's it going, Colin? |
| 1:16.8 | I'm great. Thank you, Dave. |
| 1:18.5 | Good to have you on here. |
| 1:19.8 | I have been on this little journey here over the last, I think I'm over a year and a half now. |
| 1:25.6 | I haven't missed an episode in a week. |
| 1:27.7 | I haven't missed a week yet, but I'm kind of connecting to people through, you know, people I talk to. And Tom Rosenbauer was, I think, the person that, you know, recommended. I connect with you. And, you know, obviously, you're a big name out there in fly fishing with all the videos and stuff. So I want to get into some of the new |
| 1:45.3 | flyfisher stuff, but before we get in there, can you talk about how you first got into fly fishing? |
| 1:50.1 | Oh, that's easy. And I'm glad Tom did connect us, Dave. I got into fly fishing because at the time |
| 1:57.4 | I was in the military, it had always been a fisherman. I had been on a UN deployment, came back, and I was a little messed up, |
| 2:04.4 | and some friends of mine said, you know, you really should learn how to fly fish. |
| 2:09.6 | It's so distressing, and it's so calming. |
| 2:13.0 | And that was in 1993. |
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