For the last 10 years, today's guest has guided the road system fisheries of South Central Alaska, Lower Willow, Upper Willow, the Canyon Water, and Montana Creek.

And he's one of the guides behind our recent Alaskan hosted fly fishing journey and has a head full of stories that only come from guiding any place where anything can happen.

In this episode, you're going to hear what it was like from Will's seat on the sticks during our trip,

why the bite changed each day, how he chooses between bugs, beads, and buggers.

And plenty of stories today, Will's going to get into it all.

This is the Webfly 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.

Will Donnelly shows us how to actively jig, swing, and manipulate the Dura Cell and other flies while nipping some of his favorite

patterns in Alaska. We're going to find out how to tight line, throw it into the wood, jig in place, or swim it.

We're going to talk about how they get salmon to eat, how they get trout to eat, graling.

We're going to get into all the species with will today and how to animate it all.

I want to give a quick note before we jump in and make sure you listen all the way to the very end. We've added something very special from the Alaska trip. A few of the Wet Fly Swing Pro members who were on the trip shared what the week meant to them. And it's a perfect way to close things out. So stay tuned after Will on this podcast.

You're going to hear from some Wet Fly Swing Pro members that were up with me on the Alaska trip.

So I'm excited to share that at the very end.

All right, here we go.

This is going to be a good one.

Will Donnelly.

You can find him at fishhound expeditions.com.

How's it going, Will?

Good. What's up, Dave? Not much, man. I'm excited about this

call because we did a trip last year. Or actually, now remind me again, I'm drawing my blanks on

the trip. Was it this year or last year? This is how old I'm getting. I just say last summer.

Yeah, it was last summer. Last summer, the most recent summer. Yeah, it was the most recent summer, exactly. Yeah. So we did a trip this last summer, and it was amazing. We had a great crew of some listeners of the podcast that came out. It was awesome. What's amazing about these things, we talked about a little bit, but you bring together these people that don't know each other. And you spend a week on the river.

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