You don't need to fish a river for 40 years to understand it, but you do need to stay long enough to notice patterns others miss.

We're talking Steelhead today through the lens of repetition and river miles.

We're going to talk about the discipline of swinging water thoroughly.

The patience required when conditions aren't perfect and the mindset that keeps someone returning season after season.

This conversation moves through depth control, fly angle, confidence, and the kind of incremental adjustments that only come from time spent on the water.

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.

Today, Dax Messett is here and he's going to share his biggest tips on the right gear,

the right techniques for fishing for steelhead.

We're going to be focusing on steelhead in his program around the year.

We're going to find out how to fish winter steelhead on coastal rivers and how this applies and how you need to think about tidal influences. We're going to find out how to land a fish correctly without a net is a good little segment. Plus, we're going to talk leaders and the best leader out there right now, the best tippet, what lines you

need for success. We're going to get in all summer steelhead, winter steelhead. We're going to be

bouncing around all around the Pacific Rim here today, so this is going to be a fun one. You can find

Dax Messett at Daxfly.com. Here he is. Dax Messett. How you doing, Dax? Great Dave. Thanks for having me. Huge fan. Your podcast helped me get through a lot of plane rides and long road trips. So, yeah, it's fantastic stuff. Yeah. Love it. Love it. That's cool to hear. It's always awesome because, you know, I feel like Steelhead is where we got started, you know, back when we first started, season one, we've gone into everything now, but I always love it because I can never get enough, right?

it feels like there's always a topic or a change or a evolution of rods, right?

And I think that's what we're going to talk about today.

We're going to talk about NOM, you know, the brand you're working with.

We've had at least one episode where we talked about that, but we've heard about them.

You know, I know Brian the brand you're working with. We've had at least one episode where we talked about that, but we've heard about him.

You know, I know Brian Niska in the bucket, he's talked about some of the good stuff you guys have going. So we're going to talk about that, but you're also a guy in many years and covering winter and summer steelhead. So we're going to, we're going to dig in all this today. I always love to get the story at the start.

And before you got into NAM and guiding for over 20 years,

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