There are a number of iconic species that live in Alaska, but likely none other bigger than the Alaskan rainbow.

Known to get much larger than many places in the U.S.

These aggressive rainbows have got what it takes.

Today's guest owns the leading fishing magazine in Alaska, and today you're going to get his top species and tips for fishing Alaska 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. Hey, I'm Dave, host of the wet fly swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid.

Grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcast in this

country. Marcus Weiner, owner of Fish Alaska Magazine and Self-Proclaimed Fishing and Hunting

Attic will share some of his favorite trips and species of over 23 years now of running the magazine. You're going to find out how to

catch sockeye fish that are known to not eat flies or jigs. We're going to find out how he's doing

it now up at togiac. And we're also going to find out what other salmon species he loves. He's

putting together a trip again. should you be going when should

you be planning we're going to be up there in a july that's a good time august is a good time

there's a lot of good times up there he's going to talk about that we're also going to find out about

catching this alaskan salmon shark on a fly 250 pounds and we're also going to get a story from a

trip he did with a ex-pro football player,

somebody you may have heard of, and he spent a week out there in the back country fishing and

floating 120 miles of the remote Alaskan wilderness. This is an amazing story as well. So here we go.

Marcus Weiner from fishalaska magazine.com. How you doing, Marcus? Doing good, Dave. Good to be here,

bud. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for setting some time aside today to jump back into Alaska. We're always

excited about talking Alaska. And we just had as this episode goes live, which is probably going to be

kind of early April in that range. We've wrapped up a giveaway to Tog live, which is probably going to be kind of early April in that range.

We've wrapped up a giveaway to Toggiak, which I know you've been up there in the past, and you know the guys at Toggiak River Lodge. So, you know, we're going to be looking to fill some spots for that as well as we go ahead. But we're going to talk about just the magazine you have, which is the biggest magazine in Alaska, not only fishing, but I think you do some hunting and things like that. And I know you're like a fishing nut. So let's take it back real quick. Before we get at all, the magazine, first take us back to fishing. Like, how did you get into it? What's your first memory of all that? Dave, I grew up on the East Coast and my grandmother was a salty dog. And from a very, I still have visions imprinted at about two and a half years old of casting off the beach for baby bluefish called Snappers.

So from as far back as my memories go, fishing has been imprinted on me.

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