814 | Skeena Steelhead Fishing with Brian Niska
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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#814 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/814
Presented by: San Juan Rodworks, Intrepid Camp Gear, FishHound Expeditions, Pescador on the Fly
Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors
On this episode, we're heading to one of the most iconic steelhead destinations in the world—the Skeena River. Brian Niska, owner of Skeena Spey Riverside Wilderness & Lodge, talks all about Skeena steelhead fishing. Brian shares what makes the Skeena so unique, how the steelhead season is shaping up this year, and why having John McMillan and Jeff Liskay at the lodge is such a big deal. We also get into tips for adjusting your approach based on river conditions and how to get the most out of your steelhead trip.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/814
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest runs one of the most iconic steelhead schools anywhere in the world right on the banks of the Skeena River. |
| 0:07.7 | His passion for spay casting and wild rivers has taken him from guiding anglers on massive glacial flows to building a lodge that serves as home base for one of the most unique fly fishing experiences in North America. |
| 0:20.1 | This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show you |
| 0:21.9 | the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare |
| 0:26.3 | for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:30.7 | Bryniska is here from the Skeena Spade, Riverside, Wilderness, and Lodge today. He's going to take us |
| 0:36.2 | into the seasons in the Skeena and how it's |
| 0:40.0 | shaping up for Steelhead this year. We're going to find out why having John McMillan and Jeff |
| 0:43.4 | Liske at the lodge this year for the Skeena Space School is a game changer. We're going to find |
| 0:48.4 | out what simple adjustments you can make on your steelhead trip to make sure you can adjust to changing conditions and where |
| 0:56.7 | to fish the river, whether that's shallow and near, whether you're going to be wanting to get out |
| 1:00.9 | further. We dig into it all today. And it's a fun one. You can find Brian right now at Brian Nisca. |
| 1:07.3 | You can go to skeena spay.com and check it with him there. Let's get into it. |
| 1:11.5 | Here he is, Brian Nisca. How you doing, Brian? I'm good, Dave. It's nice to talk to you again. It's been a while. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not even sure. I didn't really look back at how long it's been. Actually, it was probably the one that we did with you and Jeff Liske when we were checking. |
| 1:27.2 | It was probably the last year when we were talking about this trip, |
| 1:29.0 | but now we are setting up for |
| 1:30.8 | another big event right now today. |
| 1:33.2 | As we speak, we're launching the giveaway for somebody to win a trip to go out to your lodge |
| 1:40.1 | on the Skeena River in 2006. |
| 1:43.7 | And as we speak, it's kind of weird because we're actually doing this before the 2025 trip, |
| 1:49.0 | although when it goes live, it'll be after the trip. |
| 1:51.0 | So it's kind of this weird before-after sort of thing. |
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