If you could take a few decades of fly fishing, the early days of graphite rods, the first real fly shops, and the moment people finally started understanding bugs, and roll all that up into one conversation, that's what we're getting into today.

Mike Lawson is back on the podcast, and today we're going to talk about the 50-year anniversary of the Henry's Fork Anglers Fly Shop.

We're going to get into that and some great stories around that and the history.

What it was like then and now.

Mike's also going to share how Fenwick led the graphite revolution back in the early days

and how that evolved into Sage and some of the other brands out there in fly fishing.

The moment that matching the hatch actually started to matter.

We're going to talk about how bugs and entom matching the hatch actually started to matter. We're going to

talk about how bugs and entomology and understanding them came to be. We're going to find out

about some great writers, Ernie Schrebert, Swisher and Richards, and others who paved the way for this

period and used the Henry's Fork as their background and their lab for experimenting. And why

fish are bigger now, but a whole lot harder to find in some of these areas, we're also going to get into some evolution there. This is a fun one with lots of history, some good tips Mike shares along the way. We're going to help your cast. We're going to get you some bugs to fish this year. So here we go. You can find Mike at henrysforkeanglers.com. Here he is, Mike Lawson.

How you doing, Mike? I'm doing well. Nice. Nice. We're excited to jump in here. It's been a little while since we had you on the podcast. We're going to do a little check-in on, you've got a big anniversary. it's the 50th for the Henry's Fork Anglers and we're going to take us back

and see how fast they're check in on you've got a big anniversary it's the 50th for the Henry's Fork anglers and we're

going to take us back and see how fast that went for you you know and talk a little about the

history there of Henry's Fork but maybe give us a heads up what's going on this time of the year we're

just getting ready it's April is right upon us here what's happening with you well we're

getting into some pretty good fishing right now.

Our blue wing olives are coming on pretty good, and we haven't had very good blue wing olive weather,

because they like it cool and kind of damp and cloudy, and we've had a lot of, like, all over the west, above normal

temperatures and sunny and a lot of wind.

But today is a beautiful day to fish.

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