What is the most famous place you know of with more fly fishing history than any other in the country?

The east and west branch of the Delaware, the Beaverkill, and many more of these streams in this area have some of the earliest days of dryfly fishing in the U.S.

We have a Catskills Guide who is going to share some of his best tips on fishing the winter and beyond on some of these famous waters of New York so you might have a little more knowledge to apply to your home waters this year. 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 trip and what you can do to give back to fish species we all love.

How's it going today? I'm Dave, host of the West Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing

since I was a little kid. grew up around a 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

and guides than just about anyone out there. John Francis Troutown Guide and new drift boat

owner is going to take us through the cat skills and the seasons throughout the year. You're going to get

his best tips on fishing during the winter with midges. We're going to get into some midge activity

today. You're going to find out how to fish your rig even during the colder months

and how to change your style a little bit.

And then we're going to build the perfect trip and the perfect time to hit the Catskills this year.

Plus you're going to find out what Bug Week is all about

and when you should be thinking of taking advantage of this massive hatch in this area of the Catskills.

All right, here we go, the birthplace of modern fly fishing, John Francis from Troutownflies.com.

How you doing, John?

I'm good.

Good. Good, good, good. Great to have you on here.

We're going to be heading back into the cat skills, which is, you know, obviously a famous part of the country.

Every time I have an episode on this area, it always gets me excited, you know, about it because I think just the history, right, of it is pretty amazing. And we're going to talk Trout Town Flies. We had Joe Rist on, a podcast. We'll have a link to that one as well. But how things go on? It's cold out there, right? You guys hanging in there. Oh yeah, it's freezing. You know, we're not doing much fishing right now. We're just

waiting for that one as well but how things go on it's cold out there right you guys hanging in there oh yeah

it's freezing you know we're not doing much fishing right now we're just waiting for spring at this

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