Today's guest is one of the pioneers of Great Lake Steelhead fly fishing.

He's chased steelhead across nearly every state, Canada and Russia, and is known for his

soulful voice of fly fishing literature.

In this episode, you'll hear some incredible fly fishing history, amazing stories, and

surprising lessons that will leave you inspired on your fly fishing journey

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 drip and what

you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. Jerry Custage, sweet grass flyrods

owner and fly fishing innovator is going to take us on a vast

journey of his knowledge of the history of fly fishing and how it all started with this cabin he

built this off-the-grid cabin he built out west in Idaho and it all started there and how he's worked

around to connecting and working with Tom Morgan at Winston Rod Companies,

how he turned that into Sweetgrass, the bamboo and fly fishing Renaissance movement.

So much good stuff here today. I'm just going to get right into it. So without further

do, here he is, Jerry Custage. You can see him at sweetgrassrods.com.

How you doing, Jerry?

Real good. How are you, Dave? Good. Good, yeah. It's great to have you on here. We've had your brother on Rick a number of times here. He's got a bunch of stuff going on. We've actually had fished with Rick, too, which has also been amazing. We did a trip out. Wow. Yeah, we did a trip out to, we called it our Steelhead School, and we did a trip with Jeff Liske and Rick, and Rick was out in our New York, and it was awesome. It was really cool. We had a good crew out there, so, but we haven't really touched base with you. I've heard a lot about you, sweet grass rods, you know, your books that you have going, you've been called some pretty

amazing things, the soulful voice of, you know, a fly fishing literature. I've heard some things out there. And we're also going to just talk about just in general what you have going. So first off, give us an update. What's going on this time of year with you? It's, I guess we're almost into April. Are you, are you fishing this time of year or more hanging low? Yeah, I'm starting to,

I don't, I guess we're almost into April. Are you fishing this time of year or more hanging low?

Yeah, I'm starting to, I don't, I'm not as aggressive at fishing as I used to be. I'm pushing

79. But yeah, I just was out last night on my kayak. That's primarily what I do is fish out of my

kayak now. And I was on the Susquehanna River looking for some striped bass,

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