Ep. 066: John Knight - Competitive Fly Fishing
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Listen is as John Knight shares the international adventure of world fly fishing championships! You may be surprised how exciting competitive fly fishing can be. From Bosnia, The Czech Republich, Ireland, and now Colorado, amazing talent compete for the world title. And hear all about the World Youth Fly Fishing Championship coming to the Vail Valley this Aug 10-16. Learn how you can be a part of the action!
And what does the Secret Service have to do with fly fishing? Listen and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | So the youth events, 14 years in a row, last couple years, it was in the Czech Republic, |
| 0:04.0 | it was in Poland, it was in Ireland, and then the last two men's was in Prague into Czech Republic, |
| 0:11.0 | and this a few weeks back in Bosnia. This is the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. |
| 0:37.6 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:41.5 | Episode 66, John Knight, World Championship Fly Fishing Competitions. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:57.8 | Today's subject is fly fishing, but not just your ordinary fly fishing. We're talking about |
| 1:02.9 | competitive fly fishing. I'm excited to have with us today the U.S. International |
| 1:08.2 | Organizer for the World Fly Fishing Championships coming to the U.S. in |
| 1:12.3 | 2015 and 2016. John Knight moved to Colorado way back in 1990 from Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 1:19.3 | He married and now has two teenagers. They live in the Vell Valley, and he's had more wonderful |
| 1:25.2 | fly fishing stories and experiences than we could possibly cover in this show. |
| 1:29.1 | But we're glad to have him here. John, will you tell us more about yourself? |
| 1:32.7 | Well, Kurt, thanks for having me on. Again, John Knight, and I am the U.S. organizer. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm 47 years old and have lived in the Valle Valley since 1990. |
| 1:41.8 | About 12 years ago, I got deeply involved into the fly fishing |
| 1:45.5 | community, and my first introduction into fly fishing was through competitive fly fishing, of all |
| 1:52.6 | things. That has led us down a wonderful road where we've had many, many friends, traveled to many |
| 1:58.2 | locations, and certainly it's expanded our life in such a way |
| 2:02.5 | that we are, I think, much better people. For the people we've met and the experience we've had |
| 2:08.5 | has allowed us to grow our children around this industry, we feel very fortunate to be part of it. |
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