751 | Jeff Currier's Quest for 500 Species on the Fly
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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#751 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/751
Presented by: On DeMark Lodge, Togiak River Lodge
Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors
In this episode, we're joined once again by one of the most well-traveled fly anglers in the world — Jeff Currier. Jeff has now caught over 480 species on the fly, and he's still going strong with his goal of hitting 500. From the Amazon to Africa, Australia to the Himalayas, Jeff shares some of his favorite fishing destinations, species stories, and a few close calls along the way. If you've ever dreamed of planning a global fly fishing trip, this episode is packed with tips and inspiration to get you started.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/751
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest might be the most well-known fly fishing traveler in the world. |
| 0:06.2 | He has been chasing new fish species most of his life and now is approaching 500 fly-caught |
| 0:12.6 | fish species. |
| 0:14.1 | And today you're going to get his updated best places to travel to in the world so you can dream |
| 0:18.8 | up your next adventure in fly fishing. |
| 0:21.6 | This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show the best places to travel to for fly fishing how to find |
| 0:25.1 | the best resources and tools to prepare and what you can do to give back the fish |
| 0:29.1 | species we all love how's it going I'm Dave host of the wet fly swing podcast I've been |
| 0:33.8 | fly fishing since I was a little kid I grew up around a little fly shop and created |
| 0:37.3 | one of the largest fly fishing podcasts out there. |
| 0:39.9 | Jeff Currier, artist, Smallmouth Bass, Nut, and our go-to angler for inspiration and travel tips |
| 0:46.0 | is going to take us into a big update today on the podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | You're going to find out why some of his favorite fish to catch are some of the most common fish that we have right here at home. |
| 0:56.7 | You're going to hear about what he still has to check off his list and how he's going to get to 500 and what his backup plans are and how the show circuit went this way. |
| 1:06.1 | Plus, you're going to hear what it's like to live in a van during the show season. |
| 1:10.6 | He's kind of doing this cool thing for a while now, in a van during the show season he's kind of doing this cool |
| 1:11.7 | things for a while now half van while on the show season and and we hear this story about a little |
| 1:17.8 | cold below zero night out there so this is a fun one great to catch up with jeff uh as always here we go |
| 1:24.9 | jeff courier from jeffcurrier.com. |
| 1:29.4 | How you doing, Jeff? |
| 1:30.5 | I'm doing good, Dave. Nice to hear your voice again. |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, yeah. It's been a little while. |
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