811 | Native Trout Fly Fishing with Gary Marston - Trout, Cutthroat, Redband
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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If you've ever wondered about the rare trout swimming in North America's wildest waters, this episode is for you. Today, we chat with Gary Marston of Native Trout Fly Fishing, a lifelong angler on a mission to find and photograph every native trout species across the country. From high alpine lakes to remote desert creeks, Gary shares what it takes to chase these fish, why protecting their habitat matters, and how photography and storytelling can help us all care a little more.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/811
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest has built one of the best resources for anyone curious about the rare and overlooked trout of North America. |
| 0:07.9 | His passion has taken him deep into the backcountry onto remote desert streams and across |
| 0:13.1 | alpine lakes in search of native trout species most anglers don't even know exist. |
| 0:18.0 | By the end of this episode, you'll discover how to document and photograph each |
| 0:21.6 | of these unique trout species around the country, why protecting their home waters is as |
| 0:26.5 | important as finding them, and what he's learned chasing fish that demand equal parts, |
| 0:31.2 | patience, research, and respect. This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show you the best places |
| 0:35.9 | to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:40.4 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, |
| 0:43.7 | and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:48.3 | Gary Marston is here to take us into the native trout fly fishing world. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going to find out about his quest to catch every native trout species in the country. |
| 0:56.7 | What makes these fish so fragile and so rewarding to find? |
| 0:57.3 | And what? |
| 1:00.9 | The role of photography and storytelling plays in conservation. |
| 1:02.4 | Here is Gary Marston. |
| 1:05.7 | You can find him at native trout fly fishing.com. |
| 1:08.3 | How you doing, Gary? |
| 1:09.4 | Doing great today. |
| 1:10.4 | Thanks for having me, Dave. |
| 1:52.1 | Yeah, yeah. I appreciate you coming on and setting some time aside to talk about native trout. I think the focus today is going to be a lot on the species you've done. What sounds like, the challenge we've heard a lot about in our community, but maybe you started a while ago. So we're going to talk about that. And then you do a lot of work just with conservation and, you know, fishing. And maybe we'll focus also on one species cutthroat, sea run cutthroat specifically today. But, but yeah, maybe take us back kind of a little bit. What's going on with you this time of year? It's kind of mid-August. Are you out fishing hard? Are you taking a break for the summer? Yeah, I've had a little bit of a break this summer, but we're getting into the season I really love for fishing around here as the salmon are coming in the rivers. That's when the trout really get interested in eggs and all the things salmon bring to the system. |
| 1:59.0 | So probably be getting out on the river is pretty hard |
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