828 | Fishing For All with Evan Griggs – Fly Fishing Minnesota, Saint Croix and Mississippi River, Warm-water Species
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Evan Griggs, founder of Fishing For All, walks us through Minnesota's surprising, varied fisheries — from tight spring-fed trout creeks to the big, free-flowing Saint Croix and the Mississippi in the Twin Cities. He explains why smallmouth migrate up to 80–100 miles each season, how guide days look (drift boats, 8-wts, mice and popper windows), and why locals are seeing epic multi-species opportunities — muskie, pike, carp, native sunfish, and big smallmouth. Evan mixes practical trip planning, conservation wins (catch-and-release protections), and stories about teaching new anglers and building a guiding business that shows people how close great fishing can be.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/828
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest has built his life around fishing Minnesota's diverse waters from spring-fed |
| 0:07.0 | Drift Driftless Creeks to the broad wild stretches of the St. Croix and the Mississippi Rivers. |
| 0:12.2 | By the end of this episode, you'll know why Minnesota is more than flyover country, what makes the |
| 0:16.5 | Driftless Trout Fisheries such a hidden gem, and how smallmouth bass migrate more than a hundred |
| 0:21.5 | miles each season and how to chase him. Evan also shares his philosophy on teaching new anglers, |
| 0:27.4 | the gear and flies he trusts and what it's like guiding on rivers where you might see |
| 0:31.4 | black bears swimming across or 30 pound buffalo slurping on the surface. This is the wet fly swing |
| 0:37.3 | podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:40.4 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, |
| 0:43.9 | and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:47.7 | Evan Griggs is the founder of fishing for all, an outfitter that puts anglers on everything |
| 0:52.7 | from trout to smallmouth bass to carp, hike, musky, right in the heart of the Midwest. |
| 0:58.8 | All right, let's get into it. You can find Evan at Fishing for All. Here he is, Evan Griggs. |
| 1:05.3 | How's it going, Evan? |
| 1:06.5 | Very well. How are you, Dave? |
| 1:08.2 | Not too bad. Not too bad. We are getting a little bit of rain out here. How's, it's kind of, we're going into that October period. What's going on for you guys this time of the year? What's keeping you busy? Oh, man. I wish we were getting rain and some cold. We've hit our second summer for the year. Oh, wow. No kidding. |
| 1:28.7 | It's about 90 degrees all week. |
| 1:31.2 | So, yeah, hopefully, hopefully we'll have some fall here soon in the Northland of Minnesota. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, so you're getting a longer summer. |
| 1:39.0 | How often did your summers now go? |
| 1:41.9 | Like, when does it change? |
| 1:43.2 | Because you guys get some cold weather too |
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