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Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

755 | Fly Fishing Travel Hacks with Jeff Ditsworth of Pescador on the Fly

Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Dave Stewart

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7530 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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#755 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/755 

Presented by: Pescador on the Fly

If you've ever tried to sneak in a little fly fishing on a business trip or family vacation, this episode is for you. Jeff Ditsworth of Pescador on the Fly shares his fly fishing travel hacks from 25+ years of experience. We dive into how to pack light, avoid common gear mistakes, and make the most of those bonus fishing hours. Jeff also gives us the lowdown on his G6 packable rod and why he always brings at least two rods on every trip. Whether you're headed to Montana or Mexico, you'll walk away with simple tricks to fish more and stress less.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/755 

Transcript

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0:00.0

At times, fly fishing travel can be very challenging.

0:05.1

Am I going to miss the flight?

0:06.5

Did my bags get to the next destination?

0:08.9

Where's my rod?

0:10.1

Today's guest is a world traveler and created a business in fly fishing to help reduce the stress of traveling for fishing.

0:16.8

By the end of this episode, you're going to have the top most important tips to assure you have less stress and more fun while traveling to your next destination this season. 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. How's it going? I'm Dave, host of the Webfly 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 podcast out there. Jeff Ditzworth, Peskator on the fly guru is going to share what he's learned in 25 years of traveling, whether that's for business or with the family.

0:56.4

He's going to get into a bunch of tips.

0:57.7

You're going to find out today why and how most rods are broken.

1:00.9

This might surprise you on these trips, and it's not from a fish.

1:04.2

What the number one mistake is to avoid when traveling and why he thinks Match the hatch is overrated.

1:11.1

We're going to get it to this day.

1:12.3

This is a good discussion.

1:13.4

Match the hatch versus not.

1:15.9

We're going to talk about that.

1:16.7

Plus, you're going to find out how to get two rods and one rod tube.

1:21.1

If you haven't thought about this in a while, we're going to talk about that as well.

1:24.7

He's a master traveler.

1:26.5

Here he is, Jeff Ditzworth from pescador on the

1:28.7

fly dot com how you doing Jeff I'm doing fantastic how you doing today great great yeah

1:35.4

I'm excited for this one because travel whenever I'm thinking about travel that always

1:39.1

gets me fired up we're traveling you know to a few places this year we're gonna

1:43.1

be heading up to Alaska heading to Newfoundland some other places around the country and and we're traveling, you know, to a few places this year. We're going to be heading up to Alaska, heading to Newfoundland, some other places around the country. And we're going to be taking on some of your rod, for sure, your rod. Maybe rods. We might be having multiple rods, but you have this six-piece packable rod. You have four-piece. You kind of do everything in the fly-rod space. we're going to get an update on that today, but we're also going to get some tips on traveling while you're on maybe a business trip or a family vacation. How do you sneak away? So first off, how are things going? What's been going on since we chat last? Maybe give us folks it up. It's 2025. What's an update on Pescador on the fly right now? Yeah, man. we're right in mid-March, right in the swing of spring sail. So, you know, life is good. We're talking to a ton of anglers that are getting ready for trips and like a lot of spring break people. They're grabbing a packable rod to take with them. So, yeah, I mean, all's well. We're getting ready to launch a new, call it Lhefe v2, which is our mid-level line. We're getting ready to launch that in April. We're going to start rolling those out. So I think right now we're still doing our warehouse clearance sale right now on the L-HFA V1. But the new L-Rae G6 is out, which I know you've seen.

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