894 | Long Island Fly Fishing with Paul McCain of River Bay Outfitters
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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#894 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/894
Presented by: AVC Rig, Montana Fly Fishing Lodge, Fish The Fly, Patagonia
Sponsors: https://www.wetflyswing.com/sponsors/
Long Island fly fishing isn't the first thing most people think of when they picture New York. Traffic, skyline, beaches maybe. But tucked behind all that is a network of spring creeks, salt marshes, kettle ponds, and over a thousand miles of shoreline that most anglers never see.
In this episode, I sat down with Paul McCain, owner of River Bay Outfitters — the only dedicated fly shop on Long Island. Paul's been building community, guiding anglers, and chasing everything from native brook trout to stripers for decades.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/894
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| 0:00.0 | Fly fishing has a habit of showing up where people least expect it. |
| 0:05.6 | Sometimes it's tucked away behind city limits, |
| 0:08.2 | threaded through small spring creeks, mill ponds, and salt marshes |
| 0:11.8 | surrounded by millions of people who have no idea. |
| 0:15.2 | It's there at all. |
| 0:16.5 | And when that happens, the fishing isn't just about the fish. |
| 0:19.4 | It's about access, history, and the people |
| 0:21.6 | keeping it alive. That's the world today's guest lives in. Paul McCain is owner of River |
| 0:26.8 | Bay Outfitters, the only dedicated fly shop on Long Island, and he spent decades fishing, |
| 0:32.1 | guiding and building community across an area. Most anglers only associate with traffic |
| 0:36.8 | and shoreline views. In this conversation today, |
| 0:39.8 | we're going to take a deep dive into Long Island, what the Spring Creek scene looks like there, what he's |
| 0:45.9 | doing with this warm water fishing and all the salt water out in this area. This is going to be a good one. |
| 0:52.0 | 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 that we all love. Today we're going to dig into Long Island fishing. We're going to find out all the history. We're going to talk about spring creeks. We're going to get into the brook trout fishing there and some history. We're going to talk about some of the cool conservation work |
| 1:14.3 | that's there and just all the history that is Long Island and everything Paul has going there. |
| 1:20.2 | This is a fun one. I can't wait to share it with you today. So let's get into it. Here he is. Paul |
| 1:23.6 | McCain. You can find him at riverbayoutfitters.com. |
| 1:34.1 | How you doing, Paul? Great. How are you? I'm doing great. Yeah, this is going to be a fun one today. |
| 1:39.2 | You know, we've connected a lot, actually, and kind of the northeastern part of the country. And today we're going to dig back in. You're the, I think one of the, maybe the only fly shop in Long Island, |
| 1:43.7 | or at least you're the main one out there covering a, yeah. |
| 1:46.7 | The only dedicated fly shop. |
| 1:49.4 | A lot of other stores do have some fly fishing equipment, but that's all I do is fly fishing. |
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