Today's guest has built a lifetime around Atlantic salmon and sea trout exploring the rivers of

Denmark, Norway, and the UK with a flybox full of tube flies and hitch patterns.

Jesper Foreman is the creative mind behind fishmadman.com, a voice for traditional salmon fishing

and a designer of flies that have earned cult status from

Newfoundland to Scandinavia. By the end of this episode, you'll know why two flies can outfish

hooks in tough conditions, what makes the riffle hitch such a powerful presentation in cold water,

and how Jesper thinks about leaders, rods, and even the hooks that keep salmon pinned.

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 the fish species we all love jesper is here to share his philosophy

on salmon fishing the details that make his flies work so well and why he still finds joy

in casting for grills, sea trout, and salmon across Europe's rivers.

We also dig into the gear he trusts the flies like the V-fly that definitely has been

shouted out here by listeners on this podcast.

And we're going to get into the Scandinavian underhand style

and how that translates into steelhead fishing and anglers worldwide.

All right, you can explore all of his work at fishmadman.com.

Here he is.

Jesper.

How you doing, Jesper?

Oh, thank you, Dave.

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