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Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

699 | The New Fly Fisher in Southern Ontario with Rob Heal – Grand River, Brown Trout, Great Lakes Steelhead

Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Dave Stewart

Leisure, Hobbies, Sports, Wilderness

4.7530 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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What are the five top species that come to your mind right now for fly fishing? Are brown trout, steelhead, smallmouth bass, muskie or largemouth on that list right now? And have you ever wondered about fishing some of the great waters of Canada? Today's guest is a guide in Southern Ontario and is the new Fly Fisher host, and today he's gonna give us a roadmap to success on some of the great rivers of the Great Lakes.

Rob Heal, Southern Ontario Guide and The New Fly Fisher host is going to share his experience fishing the Grand River, the Saugeen, a bunch of great rivers that include not only steelhead but great trout fishing. You're gonna hear about these unique rivers and this holdover steelhead species that doesn't out-migrate until a year later. So you got a chance to catch these larger fish. We're gonna find out about these big brown trout in the area as well, and how to target them and some of his other go-to rivers that he fishes.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/699

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0:00.0

What are the five top species that come to your mind right now for fly fishing?

0:06.0

Are brown trout, steelhead, smallmouth bass, musky, or largemouth on that list right now?

0:11.0

And have you ever wondered about fishing some of the great waters of Canada?

0:15.0

Today's guest is a guide in southern Ontario and is the new fly fisher host and today he's going to give us a roadmap to

0:22.3

success on some of the great rivers of the great lakes. This is the wet fly swing podcast where I

0:27.2

show the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare

0:31.9

for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. How's it going? I'm

0:36.6

Dave, host of the Wetfly Swing podcast.

0:38.6

I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid.

0:40.9

I grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing

0:44.3

podcasts in this country.

0:45.7

I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers and fly fishing guides than just

0:50.1

about anyone out there.

0:51.9

Rob Heel, Southern Ontario Guide and New Fly Fisher host is going

0:55.9

to share his experience fishing the Grand River, the Sagin, a bunch of great rivers that include

1:01.5

not only steelhead but great trout fishing. You're going to hear about these unique rivers and this

1:06.7

holdover steelhead species that doesn't out migrate until a year later.

1:11.7

So you got a chance to catch these larger fish.

1:14.1

We're going to find out about these big brown trout in the area as well and how to target them

1:18.1

and some of his other go-to rivers that he fishes.

1:21.6

Plus, you're going to hear about John Georox, five stages of evolution as a camper.

1:25.8

This is a good one.

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