California is one of the most populous states in the U.S. and one of the most diverse places to flyfish.

From the base of the Sierra Nevada's to the Pacific Coast, steelhead in the north, carp on the flats, and saltwater opportunities in Southern California.

It's just about all here. Today you're going to get an inside look at where to fish and what to expect straight from a guy who reps some of the top brands in fly fishing and helps design

gear you're probably using right now. This is the Wetfly 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 the fish species

we all love. Matt Kalees, product designer at Loon Outdoors, Fly Tire, and Longtime Fly Fishing

Rep joins us to share some of his go-to tips from yours in the game. You're going to hear which

Loon product tops the charts these days and has for a while what new gear is turning heads and what life on the road as a rep really looks like.

Plus Matt's going to break down one leader he always carries and why building your own might not be worth the hassle anymore.

Heading back to Cali, here he is Matt Calise from loon outdoors.com. How you do, Matt? I'm doing well on yourself.

Great, great, great. Yeah, it's always good to get these update episodes. We had you on way back in,

I think it was June of 2020, episode 147. And, you know, we're approaching 800 now. So it's been quite a bit ago i'm i'm excited to hear because loon we're always hearing a lot about loon out there just the other day i had a a guest that brought up one of your i can't remember what it's called it's the circular thing that holds all the fly materials i'm sure you know what i'm talking about but he throws it on his wall and he has all of his you know fly patterns and all that stuff all the

material oh the bench rings yeah the bench rings yeah it was actually it was um it was brian wise he was

talking about he was like man these things are awesome and so i want to get an update on luke's i'm sure

there's been some new products in the last five years but also the area you cover for kind of the brands

that you work with and that includes you know a lot of stuff in California, which we're always, you know, working on there. So, but take us back real quick. How did you get, give us a little update, maybe just from the last, you know, last five years. What's been new with you? Oh, man. Lots of different things. You know, Loon, we're always continuously growing, and I do product design there.

So I get to kind of invent all of the stuff that we're coming out with.

We've come out with some new floatants, a ton of new tools.

You know, tungsten carbide, you know, we've reinvented shapes and styles of scissors that added posts,

kind of, uh, if you look at, uh, like the hair industry, right?

Like, you get a high end pair of like hair cutting scissors and they have like posts to rest

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