If you've chased predators long enough, you've probably heard the legends, the big water pike that act like musky, the lake trout that hit a swung fly like chrome, and the kind of northern fisheries you tell stories about the rest of your life.

Today's guest is behind one of the most iconic flying operations in Canada, a place where 350,000 acres of water surround a 12-acre island

and where guides with 20 and 30-year, 10 years still cover new weed beds, new bays, and new fish

every season.

Today we get into shallow water ambush points where midsummer giants slide in to warm their

bellies to the remote tundra lengths where lake trout crushed swung flies

in three feet of moving water.

This is the wetfly 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.

In this episode, Jason Hamilton of Scott Lake Lodge is going to walk

us through what makes their location in northern Saskatchewan such a unique opportunity. We're

going to get into the early season temperature differentials and how this dictates where fish

are holding and hanging. We're also going to find out the underrated world of swinging flies for lake trout.

We haven't heard about this before. We're going to get into lake trout on a swung fly. You don't want to miss this Big Lakers. Pike. We're even going to talk Grayling today. So here he is. Jason Hamilton. You can find him at ScottlakeLodge.com. How's it going, Jason? Very good, Dave. How are you doing this morning?

I'm doing great.

I'm really excited to get into this one today, Northern Pike, you know, just pike fishing in general. We're going to talk about, you know, your guys' operation at Scott Lake Lodge, what you do, how it's different. I've heard a lot about your lodge over the years, so I'm excited to jump into that. And then also the great thing

we've got this trip we're putting together, and we're actually doing a giveaway right now as we speak.

We're launching this off, and somebody can go to wetflyswing.com slash giveaway and get a chance

to win a spot to come up to your lodge. So we're going to paint the picture of what that looks like.

Before we get there, maybe take us back a little bit. Have you been at the lodge a while? What's your

history? Have you been fly fishing since a youngster? Or what's your story there? I wish I could say I

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