Welcome to the show. Good to have you with us today. If you spend any time around rivers,

you know there are always a few people who seem to understand the water just a little bit better

than the rest of us. Steelhead fishing has a way of humbling anglers. You can make the right cast,

fish the right water, swing the right fly, and still spend an entire day wondering if you were even close to a fish.

Today we're heading north to Alaska to talk about a new kind of opportunity for steelheaders,

a focused steelhead camp built around swinging flies, covering water, and learning how these fish

really move through a system. This is the wetfly 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.

Jonathan Farmer is back on the podcast today, and we are going to find out about their new

dedicated steelhead camp in Alaska that's creating a new kind of trip for anglers who want to focus on

swing and flies. We find out what water types are holding fish up there in Alaska, how this

winter, summer run fishery is a little bit different than other areas. We're going to talk about

Alaska and some of the species up there, including Coho as well.

We're going to find about why timing, river movement, and fish travel windows might matter more than you think for anglers.

And what anglers should expect when planning a trip built around learning, covering water, and chasing chrome in Alaska.

All right, let's get into it.

You can find Jonathan Farmer at Alaskasteelhead camp.com

and Midnight Sun Custom Flies. Here he is, Jonathan. How you doing, Jonathan? I'm good, Dave. How are you?

Good, good, good. Great to have you on here today. We've had some good stuff going the last year. I feel like

it took a while to finally connect, but we put together some good stuff, including a trip up to Alaska, to Togiac River Lodge. But the cool thing is, too, now you've got the Alaska Steelhead Camp. We're going to talk about today. Midnight Sun Custom Flies. We've talked about the Graboid. I caught a salmon using, we'll talk about that probably a little bit today. but you've got all your flies, but now you've got this steelhead camp going.

And whenever I hear camp, I always get excited because I feel like that usually means something cool.

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