Today's guest is known for mastering both summer hatches and after dark hunts.

He leans into the thrill of chasing brown trout by headlamp, swinging mice and streamers

long after most anglers have packed it in.

By the end of this episode, you'll learn how glow-in-the-dark flies work, why you'll want

to fish an unweighted streamer, and how to read water by feel, not by sight.

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 to fish species we all love.

Frank Lantis is a Pennsylvania fly fishing guide and one of the most thoughtful voices on

how and why night fishing works. We're going to dig into stream temperatures, seasonal triggers,

the myths around fishing mouse patterns, and the power of slowing everything down. Here he is,

Frank Lantis. You can find him at Frank Flyfishes on Instagram. How you doing, Frank? Good. How are we doing today? Not too bad. Not too bad. Really excited to jump into this with you today and talk. We're going to dig into some on brown trout. I know, you know, that's a big focus. We're probably going to touch on some nighttime fishing, maybe mixed up with a little daytime and just kind of give people some, you know, background on, you know, that's a big focus. We're probably going to touch on some nighttime fishing, maybe mixed up with a little daytime

and just kind of give people some, you know, background on, you know, improving their brown trout game. I think that obviously that's a species. A lot of people are interested in. So first off, maybe just give me a heads up. What's going on this time of year? As this goes live, it's probably going to be live in, you know, August. but right now it's kind of July.

Are you out there busy fishing right now?

Yeah, we're in the doll. live, it's probably going to be live in, you know, August, but right now it's kind of July.

Are you out there busy fishing right now? Yeah, we're in the dull days, the long summer days right

now. The trout fishing is kind of slowing down through most of the state. You do have a few places

where you can, you know, kind of pick and choose your spots wisely, but really a lot of it's

shifted over to small mouth for a lot of people. We just had a local pretty cool small mouth bass tournament called the

Bass Thumb tournament, the TCO sponsored. So that was just this weekend. So we're mid July, it's summer.

People are thinking bass more than trout. But on that note, I kind of switch over to Tarting and Trout at

nighttime this time of year. So that's kind of a cool thing that I do. And then the real cool thing that we just wrapped up was the 17-year periodical cicada. Oh, yeah. That kind of wrapped up at the end of June. That was a really, really awesome time in the middle part of the state. That was a good month of amazing fishing, really. So that was all wrapped up. That's all over. But that was the highlight of the last season. Nice. So the cicadas, that was, I mean, I guess, yeah, we've talked a little bit about that. But describe that again, was this is something that's going to come again next year or not quite at the same level? No, it's a 17-year cycle.

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