What happens when a legendary river event disappears and then someone decides to bring it back?

Today we're talking about the return of the Sandy River Spakelave, what it takes to rebuild

something like this from the ground up, and how it's creating a space where anglers can

actually learn, connect, and improve fast. Mia Shepard from Little Creek Outfitters is back on

the podcast to walk us through

the clave, her guiding life, and a new project that might surprise you, a Dutch oven camp cooking

cookbook built around years on the river. Today we're going to discover what makes a clave

different from any other fishing event out there, how beginners can show up and start improving

right away. We're going to find out how

Mia balances guiding events and everything else that's on her plate. And we're going to get a few

killer Dutch oven cooking recipes that are going to upgrade your next camping trip. All right,

if you want to find Mia, you can check them out at Little Creek Outfitters.com.

Connect on Instagram as well.

All right.

Let's get into it. Here she is. Mia Shepard. How you doing, Mia? I'm doing great, Dave. Thanks for having me. Yeah, yeah. This is going to be a fun one to catch up. We were just kind of chatting off here a little bit about how time flies and, you know, six years goes by like that.

We've done some episodes with you.

It was a while ago. You and Marty were on back in the day and you did one recently within the bucket with Brian. So we'll have links to those in the show notes. But I want to get caught up on, you got a couple of things going, this new cookbook I'm really excited about because there's nothing better than, you know, cooking the way

you talk. It looks like it's going to be all Dutch oven, right? That's kind of the focus. So we'll talk about that today. And then the spakelave you got going, of course, you're guiding. How do you keep track all this? How do you stay without freaking out with all the stuff you got going? Oh my gosh, that's a really good question because I do freak out. Marty could attest to that.

But the last four months, I spent a lot of time in the gym and the last two weeks I've been out hunting turkey and Morales and just staying really active.

And I have a very organized Google Calendar. Google Calendar is definitely my

friend and it's something that, you know, Marty, Marty has his own own little account and we can

all share what we're doing and it works really well. Yeah, it does. Google is good for that. Nice.

...