The history and tradition in fly fishing is something that brings us all together.

I enjoy thinking about the people and places that have paved the way and brought us all together.

And today we have a guide that has been fishing for more than 50 years in an area that was made famous by Lee Wolf.

And today we're going to get his best tips on swinging flies for Atlantic salmon. So you have a better chance and are better prepared to catch a migratory fish 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 big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. This is Dave host of the Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. grew up around a little fly shop

and created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts out there. Rod Brophy, Master Guide at Mount

Waters Resort is going to break down how they catch big Atlantic salmon on the surface with

bombers and the Portland hitch. We're going to talk about the riffle hitch today.

You're also going to find out how to rig your leader for success, what his top flies are

that he used as year around, and his story of growing up in the place that was made famous

by Lee Wolfe more than 75 years ago.

Plus, we're going to be heading in with Rod this year to fish.

If you want to check in on availability, send me an email, Dave at wetfly swing.com.

We're going to be there hitting it hard for Atlantic Salmon, and we're going to get into it all today.

He was landing Atlantic Salmon before most of us were even thought of.

Here he is, Rod Brophy from Mountain Waters Res mountain waters resort.ca. How you doing, Rod? Good. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for jumping in here for another episode. We did one with the whole crew at the start here. We'll put a link to that episode as well. It was fun to kind of get a background from Ryan and, uh, you know,

and Ryan's dad. And we kind of talked about, you know, the fishing. We're going to go back deep

dive into Atlantic salmon into Newfoundland and kind of everything you guys do up there.

We've got some people that are coming. I'm going to be there. And it's exciting because I think

the differences between steelhead and especially like summer steelhead and Atlantic salmon is really interesting. I think a lot of the books, I mean, there's some, I remember one of the first books I read was called, I think it was called Steelhead Trout, a small book, but it was cool because it was written about Atlantic salmon, but a lot of those things apply directly to summer

steelhead, right? So it's going to be cool to talk about that today. But first off, maybe

let's take it back to the start for you. What's your first memory? How did you get into fly fishing?

Well, that's a long time ago. With my dad, that seemed to be a thing you did here back uh here back in the days of course you know to lee

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