Bluing dolls were popping. Trout were rising everywhere, and Eric Johnson suddenly found himself in the middle of a Missouri River dryfly day most anglers only dream about.

Not bad for a guy who originally thought you won a trip, message was a scam. If you've ever wondered what actually happens when someone wins one of our big giveaway trips, the gear, the lodge,

the guides, the fishing. Today's episode gives you the full picture straight from the angler

who lived it. This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where we 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 fish species we all love.

Eric Johnson walked into a prize pack stacked with brands like Lampson,

Yucoda, Foing Mill, Pescador on the fly, tripping in many more,

and then stepped into three days of bluing doll of hatches, pods of rising fish,

the reach class, masterclass, and trout, so fat that a six-inch fish

was considered small.

By the end of this episode, you're going to hear what the hatch looked like from the

boat, how the guides read the water, the setup that fooled the bigger fish, what surprise

Eric most about the gear he won and why the Missouri River feels like a spring creek on steroids.

We're also going to find out what it's like to stay at a lodge built on Gary Cooper's old property,

complete with a flytying barn, big dinners, and the unmistakable, you're part of the family vibe.

Okay, let's jump into it. You could find Eric on Instagram at Eric S. Johnson, and you can find

On to Mark Lodge at OnDamarkLodge.com. How you doing, Eric? Not bad. How about yourself, Dave?

I'm doing really well. Yeah, this is going to be a fun one and kind of a new episode that we haven't done

before. We're actually the winner of the

on-de-mark, the dryfly giveaway event we did, where you won a bunch of gear, a trip to the Missouri river to fish with Craig and the crew. We're going to talk about, you know, everything there. And since this is the first time we've kind of done one of these podcasts where we've chatted with one of the winners I I'm really excited just to hear how everything's going, how maybe talk about gear a little bit and just about the trip. Does that, does that sound good to you? Oh, that's fantastic. I'm very excited to talk about all of it. Nice. Good. Well, like we said, I can't remember the exact prize pack, but it was thousands of dollars worth of, you know,

gear and, you know, and the trip and everything. But let's just start off, first off,

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