Today's guest takes us where technology meets the river.

He shared the stage with Bill Gates multiple times, leads the charge in AI, and still finds time to run a guide business in the Sierra's.

We're heading into California to explore its wide variety of fly fishing, from the bays to the beaches to Baja and high mountain streams chasing golden trout.

By the end of this episode, you will walk away with fresh tools and inspiration for planning

your next fly fishing adventure. This is the Wet Fly Swink 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.

Tim Huckabee, Microsoft executive and guru on AI is going to walk us through the Sierra Nevada is what he does there for guiding.

He's going to take us into San Diego, all the diversity of species down there and all the interests that creates this amazing life he has going you're going to find out what big species

you can find in the Bayes of California and why the Hobie kayak is a must-have if

you're heading down there you're also going to get a few tips on fishing the

golden trout wilderness and what you can do if you're planning a trip down in that area

he knows it very well plus we're going to find out what good AI and what bad AI looks like in

the outdoors coming from the man who's creating it a very interesting conversation so let's get

this one going here he is tim Huckabee from Tim Huckabee.com and

San Diego Flyfishers.com.

How you doing, Tim?

Fantastic. Great to be here, Dave.

Yeah, yeah. This is going to be a really fun, I think a unique episode because you're in a place that we've done a few episodes.

I mean, where you live actually San Diego, but you fish in kind of up in Northern California. You do a lot of traveling. I think a lot of our listeners are interested in places to travel to. And the other unique thing is you're a, you know, I guess a technologist. You have this background and like AI working, you know, Bill Gates, the whole thing, Silicon Valley, right? I'm sure as part of your

world. So I'm really interested to talk about that a little bit, too. But before we get into all that, maybe let's just kind of take it back to, you know, your website, Tim Huckabee.com. I mean, how did all this come to be where you've got this tech going and then you also have this, you know, kind of some guiding and stuff like that.

Well, I guess it's like, how in the world does a software executive that stands on stage with Bill Gates and Steve Malmber become a fly fisherman? Right. That's it. That's a, you know, fairly long story. I'll make it short, but I got invited to a fly fishing trip by some college buddies of mine. They said that they had an extra spot. I said, oh, we'll help you out. You won't have to spend a lot of money, you know, blah, blah, blah. And of course, it was the exact opposite. The minute we hit the water, they disappeared. And I had to figure it out myself. But I did. And I have this obsessive personality, not obsessive, compulsive, but obsessive.

...