CJ's Reel Southern Podcast #5 | Stories from the Water with Chad's Fishing Crew
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of CJ's Reel Southern Podcast, Chad brings on his fishing crew — a mix of guides and friends he's traveled and fished with for years. They share funny and crazy stories from the water, like breaking gear, getting stuck in shallow flats, and even mistaking big bonefish for sharks.
The crew talks about the teamwork it takes to fish together, the challenges of different waters like the Louisiana marsh and Florida flats, and how they've learned (and laughed) through plenty of mistakes. They also share how to book trips with them, whether it's tarpon in Florida, redfish in Louisiana, or even fishing in Cuba. It's a fun, laid-back conversation filled with good laughs, fishing tips, and the bond that comes from years of adventures together.
#798 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/798
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to CJ's Real Southern podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Chad Johnson, Fly fishing guide, storyteller, and Southern Soul through and through. |
| 0:14.0 | From the front porch to the river banks, this podcast is going to be about connection, friends, and maybe learning a trick or two about |
| 0:23.2 | trophy fishing. So grab a sweet tea, tie on your favorite fly, and let's go fishing. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Chad Johnson with CJ's Real Southern podcast. I'm really excited about this month. My guy Dave, that's |
| 0:41.4 | got all this kicked off podcast stuff kicked off for me, told me to kind of do what I thought |
| 0:47.3 | was fun. And if I was having fun, people would like it. So I really thought this would be fun. |
| 0:52.3 | What I've done is I've kind of brought on my |
| 0:54.6 | fishing crew, the guys that I travel around the country with fishing, and we've made a pretty |
| 1:02.7 | cool crew over the years. We've got Ben Levin, which all of you guys know, we had him on last |
| 1:09.9 | month, you know, guided all over the world and just phenomenal guide. |
| 1:14.5 | All right. |
| 1:15.0 | And then we got Mr. Chip Smith out of Florida. |
| 1:17.6 | He's a tarp and a redfish guide all over Florida. |
| 1:21.8 | He kind of moves where the fish are. |
| 1:24.1 | Steve Daly. |
| 1:25.6 | Everybody knows him of Dally's Fly Shop, guide here on the river, photographer. |
| 1:32.0 | Max Waldrop is, actually Max Waldrop is a friend from Oklahoma that I met through the guy that got me started in this whole thing, Stacey Bailey. |
| 1:43.4 | And they worked together. |
| 1:45.7 | And so he's a construction guy, but he's coming to us all the way from Turks and |
| 1:50.3 | Kekos. He bailed on us and went over to live a dream. And he left his brother Dusty Waldrop. |
| 1:58.7 | He's a construction guy out of Oklahoma. |
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