749 | Tales of the 48: Fly Fishing Every State with Ryan Burch - Four Wheel Campers
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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# 749 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/749
Presented By: Four Wheel Campers
Today, we catch up with Ryan Burch, high school pottery teacher by day, and adventurer behind Tales of the 48 by summer. Ryan is gearing up for the ultimate fly fishing road trip in his fully loaded Four Wheel Camper. He's aiming to connect with fish, places, and people across the country—starting this summer with the eastern U.S.
You'll hear how Ryan is making this dream happen with help from Orvis, Four Wheel Campers, and a camera crew that includes his little sister and his dog. He shares his travel and packing tips, how he's organizing life on the road, and what it means to balance ambition with simplicity. From Florida Keys permit dreams to noodling catfish in the South—this episode is packed with the kind of stories that inspire you to get out and explore your own backyard.
# 749 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/749
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like one of my favorite things to put together is a good road trip. Whether that's a few |
| 0:06.7 | hours across the state, a few days across the country, or maybe all the way up to Alaska, |
| 0:12.0 | there's nothing like being on a road trip. Today's guest has a large goal to catch a fish in every |
| 0:17.1 | state in the lower 48, and today you'll find out how he plans on doing it in his |
| 0:21.5 | four-wheel camper this year. By the end of this episode, you will have a few great travel |
| 0:26.1 | trips and inspiration for your next big journey and fishing trip this year. This is the |
| 0:31.0 | wetfly swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the |
| 0:35.1 | best resources and tools to prepare for that trip and what |
| 0:38.6 | you can do to get back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey, this is Dave host of the Webfly Swing podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. |
| 0:46.9 | Grew up around a little fly shop and now have created one of the most inspirational |
| 0:50.5 | podcast out there. |
| 0:52.7 | Ryan Birch, high school teacher by day, tales of 48 traveler by night and an off-season |
| 0:58.3 | is going to describe why he created his ambition plan and why Orvis, four-wheel |
| 1:03.1 | campers, and other big brands are supporting his mission this year. |
| 1:07.6 | You will hear about his first camper, his first camping trip with the camper, his family, how this thing kept breaking down. I love this drive behind camper story. And we find out why he got into the pop-up camper and why he's loving the four-wheel camper. We're going to get a little bit nerdy on that. And also which species he's going to be excited about. He's going to be connecting a bunch of East Coast states and species this year. |
| 1:29.6 | So we're going to find out about that and this documentary film, how you can be a part of it. |
| 1:33.9 | Plus, you'll get his four big travel tips this year, and you don't want to miss that. |
| 1:38.9 | Let's find out how he does it. |
| 1:40.9 | Here he is, Ryan Birch from Tales of the48.com. How you doing, Ryan? I'm good. Dave. Thanks for |
| 1:49.3 | having me on. I really appreciate it. Yeah, yeah. This is going to be a good episode. I'm fired up because |
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