Today we sit down with UK fly fishing legend Peter Cockwell for a wide-ranging chat on small stillwater's chalk streams and the decades-long friendship with our friend Jim Tini.

Peter shares his origin story insights into stocking trout with simple flies and why you shouldn't overlook that shallow downwind bank when fish and still waters.

We've even got a backcountry story.

This one is jam-packed with wisdom, humor, and lots of old stories.

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 the fish species

we all love. Peter Cockwell returns with more insight from the stillwater side of the fly fishing

world. We dive into fishing clear water with minimal flies using when to your advantage and what

and how to fish without a boat on still waters.

Plus, you're going to hear why fly shops mattered long before the internet and what it's like to chase steelhead with Jim Tini.

This one's good, so let's get into it.

Here he is, Peter Cockwell.

How you doing, Peter?

Fine, thank you.

I'm in sunny Hampshire in southern England.

It's sunny. It's sunny. That's always interesting. I always think of it as a similar weather pattern, right?

Because I think latitude-wise, you guys are pretty close, but...

You're right, Dave. It should be the same, but we've had this easterly high pressure with cold winds, but blazing sunshine every day.

Wow, wow. So is that probably, it seems like sunshine is not always the best for fishing, right? Do you find that the sunshine is kind of not great? Yeah, when it's bright and cold. And you can't defeat that old saying, can you, that when the wind is in the east, the fish bite least. Oh, there you go.

I like that.

Okay. That's it. Awesome. And we get the east wind out here as well. You know, well, Jim Tini is the person that, you know, I've heard your name before, but Jim was really the one that connected us. And, you know, he's an old friend of the family. So it's cool to connect. And we'll probably talk about some Jim stories as well as we go here.

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