Alaska has a way to change the way you think about trout.

The water is bigger, the fish move more, and the playbook you relied on in the lower 48 doesn't always hold up in Alaska.

Today's episode is all about adapting and it's coming straight from the river with Orion Good.

A guide at Fishhound Expeditions and one of the guys quietly figuring out what actually

works when conditions flip and the salmon aren't always doing what we want.

Orion grew up in Northern California, cut his teeth on guiding in Colorado and Montana in the last

four season has been working in Alaska. He's been floating the willow, walking creeks, and

today we're going to talk about what he's doing with nymphing and how he finds fish up in Alaska.

We're also going to find out what is all about this duracill fly.

We talk about today why the duracel is such a money pattern up there.

We're going to get into it all today with Orion.

So if you want to check in with Orion or Fishhound Expeditions, you can do that right now, fishhound expeditions.com. And excited to share this one with you. Let's jump into it. Here he is, Orion. Good. How's it going, Orion? Doing good, Dave. How about you? Great. Yeah, yeah. This is going to be a fun one today. I always love talking about Alaska.

We're going to get into some Alaska. We're going to get into, I think, nymphing. When I first heard about you, I think it was Adam or one of the other guys was mentioning that I think it was the Dura Cell or one of the flies was working really well. and it was a little bit different than maybe past years because it wasn't all flesh, and you were the man.

So we're going to talk, we're going to talk nymphing probably euro nymphing

and all that stuff but before we get you know there maybe take us back real quick on fly fishing

what's your first memory you've been doing this a while my background is i started or i caught my first

fish when i was five years old out of hack creek here in california on uh conventional tackle I caught my first fish when I was five years old out of Hack Creek here in California

on a conventional tackle. And then my first fish on a fly rod was 12 years old. And then it pretty

much just exploded from there. I've been chasing fish ever since then. Nice. Did you grow up in

northern California? I did. Northeastern California, yeah. Oh, northeastern, right. Yeah,

Northeastern. Cool. What was your journey? I know you've guided some other places. What,

what was that like? How did you eventually get up to Alaska? Was that a long journey up to get there?

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