Do you consider yourself a nympher or a swinger?

Do you love dry fly fishing or do streamers get you more fired up?

And do you love to focus on one thing in fly fishing or are you more a jack of all trades?

I found today's guest in a movie documentary about BC steelhead fishing and today we hear the rest of the story.

By the end of this episode you will have a nymphing setup from one of the legends in trout fishing and another tool in your toolbox as you move forward this year. This is the wet fly swing podcast where I show you the best place 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 Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a little fly shop and created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts out there. Alex Zini Hall, legendary Colorado trout fishing guide and self-proclaimed trout bomb steelhead nut is going to take us into his world of the upper sand

wand and we're going to talk about the other end of the babine river for steelhead we find out

how to fish a pool with a nymph and indicator why the shoulder season should definitely be on

your radar and which old school strike indicators he really loves we get into that the exact setup for nymphing with these indicators.

And what you should be looking at in a tasty run, how to find these fish in pools.

Plus, we're going to find out how to see fish into fish windows in the water so you can spot and catch more fish this season.

Without further ado, here he is, Alex Zini Hall.

You can find him at Alex Zini on Instagram. How you doing, Alex? Oh, doing good. Thank you for having me. Yeah, yeah, thanks for coming on here. I'm excited to talk to you. I think like a lot of the great things out there in fly fishing or just around the world, word of mouth is a lot of getting the word out there. And I heard, I'm not even sure now who told me about it, but Lo and Clear was a movie, a documentary you were on that was really awesome about a place I love up north, you know, in Steelhead country. But also, you have a bunch of experience guiding your, I've heard you be called a legend before, you know, so you've got this legendary status as well. So we're going to talk about that and some of your guiding in Colorado and around the country. But before we get there, take us back to fishing. I always love to start really quick. How did you get into it? What's your first memory of fly fishing? Well, my first memory of fishing, my father was a pretty avid fisherman, and I was the younger younger son so I got left home a lot which

didn't sit well with me that was my first yeah my first instinct to fishing was I want to go and I

can't so and then from there it just kind of led moving to the you know the Rocky Mountains living

in Colorado it's kind of natural to

you know fishing is available and so uh i spent a lot of time just you know out on the rivers and

streams and just learned as i went i had a few mentors here and there i mean definitely that

you know nudge it because i started out fishing spin gear and stuff and, yeah, gradually moved towards fly fishing.

But, yeah, it's been nice to do.

I keep an open mind, though.

I still do both, but fly fish is 90% of what I do.

I was going to say, it seems like in some areas around the country you hear about fly fishing is more the predominant you know like for

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