For decades, today's guest has been one of the Keepers of Portland Creek, a system with more layers than first-timers ever realize.

Less grew up on this water, the way some people grow up in a library, every run, every lake, every tributary in story,

and you can tell you exactly how salmon and brook trout use each piece throughout the entire season.

Today we're going to walk through the real mechanics of fishing the Portland Creek area.

Why the wind can be your friend and how a low sidearm cast can outperform a hero cast

when the river blows upstream. How to wify your way through a run so you don't cast past fish sitting right in front

of you and why dead drifting a floating fly with all your line upstream outfishes any fancy

presentation. 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.

Les Wenzel is here to show us brook trout fishing in Newfoundland.

We're going to find out about the sea run brook trout, how big they can get and how you can actually get a shot at some of these.

We're going to find out why they fish the lakes and the rivers and three simple trout

flies that always fool the brookies.

We're also going to get into a bunch of flies on Atlantic salmon, some of the favorite

classic patterns, and some of those flies that the famous Lee Wolfe fished in the same waters

that we're going to be talking

about today. So that's all I have for you. Let's jump into this one and find out how to fish

brook trout and newfoundland. Here we go. Les Wentzel, you can find them at Mountain Waters Resort.com.

How's going, Les? Go good, Dave. How are you? Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. I'm excited today to check in on brook trout. We've been talking and thinking a lot about Atlantic salmon because we're heading out there this next year. So we're going to be hitting it. And we've got a good crew that's going to be there. It's going to be fun to finally fish with you guys. but today I think we're going to talk a little bit of update on what's been going on for you this summer and then we'll get into Brookchop. But maybe take us back there, our last episode. I guess it was, I think, earlier in the year, we talked, went a deep dive on Atlantic Salmon. How'd the summer? How'd the season go? This season was, it went pretty well, Dave.

We actually, the season this year was better than the last two seasons. We had more fish. The larger

fish was, the numbers wasn't as many as other years, but we had way more smaller fish. When I say

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