There's a moment at certain fly fishing locations where casting stops being the hard part.

You're standing on the bow of a boat, water barely moving, staring into a shallow bay that hasn't seen pressure.

No roads, no docks, no second chances.

And the only real decision left is whether you're willing to wait for the right fish or rush for the wrong one.

That's the reality at Scott Lake Lodge, a fly-in fishery on the edge of the Northwest

territories where northern pike hunt like saltwater predators and patience matters more than power.

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. Nick Elkison is here

and guides at Scott Lake Lodge. Today we're going to be talking about shallow water pike fishing,

freshwater flats fishing and what changes when you're fishing a place where the fish don't

always forgive mistakes.

In this episode, you're going to learn how to approach pike when you're sight fishing.

We're going to find out why waiting for the right fish often matters more than covering water.

We're also going to discuss water temperature and how this seasonally changes throughout the year and how you can focus this for your next trip.

And what separates a missed opportunity from a clean eat when

sight fishing for big pike lots of good stuff in this one today including how small decisions

near the boat can cost anglers we're going to talk about some mistakes as well all right let's get

into it you can find nick elkison at sclakelodge.com.

How you doing, Nick? Good. How are you? Great. Great. I'm excited to talk about today. We're going to talk about, you know, Scott Lake Lodge. We're going to talk about pike, you know, northern pike. We're going to probably talk about some other species. But you're in this area that's pretty spectacular. I haven't been there, but I've seen a lot of photos, and we've done one podcast episode now, and I'm pretty excited. So we're going to get into all that about

pike, but maybe first off, take us back real quick on fly fishing. Have you, have you been doing

this a while? What's your first memory out there? Yeah. So I grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario,

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