We are heading to Alaska this year to chase king salmon in one of the remaining Alaskan strongholds for kings.

We're focused on swinging up snook on a spay rod.

We've heard some people on this podcast tell us that it doesn't get any better than swinging for kings.

And today you're going to hear from one of our guides and some tips on optimizing for success, whether you're fishing for kings, steelhead, or any anatomous fish. This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places that 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 we all love. Hey, how's it going? I'm Dave, host of the Wet Fly 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 podcast in this country. Floyd Carter, passionate guide at Togiac River Lodge and beyond, is going to share some of his experience and expertise on what it was like his first time up at toiac. We're going to actually get into here about this spate camp that they started out with the first year and some really interesting stories behind that. And then we're going to find out what two lines and two flies you're going to only need for Togiac and how you can get your line out there even if you have no room for a D loop. You're also going to find out why you don't have to be a mega hucker to have success on the togiac this year. Quick reminder, before we get into it, we've just launched the giveaway. And if you want a chance to win a trip to Togiac River Lodge right now, you can go to wetfly swing.com slash giveaway, enter your name and email and we'll follow up with our big announcement next week.

We'll be choosing the winner.

Also, if you're interested in find out more, we've got a little information at the end of this episode.

Oklahoma bread turned into a spay junkie.

Here we go.

Floyd Carter.

You can find them at carter spay.com. How you doing, Floyd? Doing well. Doing well, Dave. Good to be here. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for coming on here. This is, you know, I talk to people all the time. I was just at a recent show chatting with some people and randomly ran into somebody who, you know, we were talking and he didn't know who, you know, that I had the show. And then he realized he's like, oh, man, I listen to all the show all the time. And he said specifically, you know, the space stuff. Like, he's kind of getting into it. And, you know, I think he's got a few struggles. But I think we're going to talk about that today. and then also maybe how people can take it to the next level and get in and think about Chinook fishing, which is something we've chatted on here before. But before we get into all that today and talk about Togiac and some of the other areas you're fishing throughout the year, bring us right back to fishing, fly fishing. You know, how'd you get into? Have you been doing this a while? um you know back to your original statement i sure do

understand the struggle um yeah i've fished my entire life you know i bought a bass boat before i ever

bought a a vehicle oh wow um and uh i did some fly fishing in colorado that's where where I grew up in the high school and college years.

But as I moved around about 10 years ago, let's see, it was probably about 10 years ago,

I took a trip to Seattle with my sweetheart.

And she had a conference and we were piggybacking that into a vacation.

And so I had a few days to wander.

And I ended up in Emerald Water Anglers talking with Dave McCoy.

And the essence of that conversation was, you know, there's not a man in your family unless you're swinging flies for an

agamous fish. And I said, well, open up your books because I've just got time on my hands. And so Jason

picked me up from our Swanky Hotel, took me to the Skyokomish, put me in some leaky waiters.

I came out at the end of the day,

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