Some of the best water you'll ever fish is the water most people never reach.

Today we're joined by Christian Pretorius Global Guide, traveler, and someone who spent most of his

life chasing fly fishing across the world. From picking up a rod at six years old in South

Africa to guiding nearly year-round in places like the Seychelles, Kamchatka, and Bolivia.

He's seen what happens when you push this lifestyle as far as it can go.

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.

Christian Petorius is here and he's going to walk us through his life around fly fishing, what he's got going now and what he's got planned in the future. We're going to find out about this Golden Gerado fishing trip in Bolivia and how it's one of the most intense and visual fisheries out there. We're going to find out about the evolution of remote fishing,

heli access, versus earning it on foot. We're going to get into the changes in fly fishing

in some of these remote destinations and what the jungle teaches you that you can't learn

anywhere else. This is going to be a fun one. If you ever thought about traveling for living or

just for fun or getting out more on trips around the world, you're going to enjoy this one. If you ever thought about traveling for living or just for fun or getting out more

on trips around the world, you're going to enjoy this one. Let's get into it. Here he is. You can find

Christian at cbflyfishing.com. Here he is, Christian Pretorius. How are you doing, Christian?

I'm happy to be here. We've been talking about doing this one for a while, so I'm glad it finally, it's working out. Yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah, you're definitely a busy guy. We're going to talk about that today where you're traveling around the world. I think it'd be cool to get a high level of some of the places you're going to, talk about some of your, you know, maybe trips you're really excited about and all that. But, you know, before we get into that, where did this, this travel thing you got going? Has this been since early age? Or when did you start, you know, getting into all this stuff? It's a question I still try and figure out, to be honest, where this travel bug came from. But it started a young age to be honest like my dad the fly fishing

started at the age of six I mean that's when my dad put a flyer in my hand and he

he was a passionate fly fisherman and he kind of pushed showed me the ropes and I

loved fly casting and and the idea of it and being outside and honestly man it's been what 25 years now um of dedication

and um just kind of giving my soul to this industry which i've absolutely loved and uh yeah it's been a

good ride yeah and where'd you grow up and i grew up in i was actually born in pretoria in

south africa uh then i moved Cape Town, kind of in my

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