760B | Moccasin Fly Club with John Hunt - Curated Fly Fishing Travel Experiences
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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#760B Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/760B
Presented by: Moccasin Fly Club
Today's story started with a pair of forgotten wading boots, a group chat, and a long hike into Cheesman Canyon... with only a pair of moccasins! Hear how this mishap not only turned into a fun story to tell around a campfire but also sparked the idea for a company that's now helping anglers plan better trips, save money, and fish more often.
In this episode, you'll learn how to stretch your travel budget, pick the right guides, and build unforgettable trips that fit any style or wallet.
John Hunt, founder of Moccasin Fly Club, is here to help us understand how to find trips on a budget, what makes a great fly fishing guide, and why some of the best adventures are still DIY.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/760B
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| 0:00.0 | It all started with a forgotten pair of waiting boots, a group chat, and a long hike |
| 0:06.2 | in a Cheeseman Canyon wearing nothing but moccasins. |
| 0:09.5 | What began as a few buddies trading fishing reports and planning weekend trips slowly grew |
| 0:13.9 | into something much bigger, an amazing resource for anyone interested in fly fishing travel. |
| 0:18.7 | By the end of this episode, you'll know how to travel on a budget, |
| 0:21.6 | find the right guides for the trip, and build fly fishing trips that fit any style or wallet. |
| 0:27.6 | This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:31.6 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back the fish species we all love. |
| 0:43.0 | John Hunt, founder of Mocassus and Fly Club, helps us understand how to find trips on a budget and why some of the best adventures are still DIY. |
| 0:46.5 | We also get into fishing gear, two-handed casting, and how the club keeps things fun, flexible, |
| 0:52.6 | and community-focused. |
| 0:53.7 | Whether you're chasing redfish in New Orleans or permitted Mexico, |
| 0:57.7 | John's got a trip for you, |
| 0:59.3 | and he's going to show us how to travel smarter and fish with more success this year. |
| 1:03.3 | Here he is, John Hunt from moccasinflyclub.com. |
| 1:08.7 | How are you doing, John? |
| 1:10.3 | Doing great, man. It's a nice day here in Denver and happy to be on the pot. I appreciate the time. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, yeah, this is going to be good. We're going to definitely talk Colorado today. I think you guys |
| 1:19.2 | have a travel program where you're not only in Colorado, but around the country, not only fly fishing, |
| 1:24.8 | but some hunting. So you guys have a diverse background with your program. We're going to get into all that today. I'd like to take it back to the start real quick and just talk about, you know, how you got into all this before moccasin came to be is do you have a first memory in fly fishing? What's that look like? I mean, yeah, I guess first memory in fishing in general was just as a kid with my grandfather, originally from Missouri, and I used to spend weekends driving all over from lakes and rivers and |
| 1:51.3 | ponds and different stuff with my grandfather fishing. |
| 1:55.0 | At that point, I was young in spin fishing, but he was a fly fisher. And I have one of his old, uh, |
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