I'm April Voki and you're listening to Anckered my chance to speak with some of the most influential people involved in the outdoors today. Join me as I travel to sit face to face with my guests in their own homes to learn more about their

careers, opinions, history, relationships, and life both indoors and out. This episode is made possible by Rio Products.

Over 20 years ago, Rio was the first Flyline company to develop and sell a Flyline

designed specifically for spaycasting, the good old windcutter.

From there Rio developed the first commercially available scagut line and soon after was the first

company to introduce the Mo-tip system, specific tips powerful enough to turn

over typical winter steelhead flies. Rio remains dedicated to simplifying Spay with a host of videos and resources for the consumer, all found at space

central at www. real products.com. Tommy Ark Vysla is a world champion spaycaster and all around nice guy.

Healing from Norway Tommy kindly made time to sit with me during 2017 Spearama.

In this episode we discussed competition casting and Tommy's entrance

into the Spee world. I'm from Norway. I live in the city closed by Oslo, like in ours south of Oslo. It's a small town called Horton. It's kind of, yeah, 30,000 people live in there.

It's a small city, everybody knows everybody. You were born there? No, I was born in Moscow, but there's a city over the sea over there.

Yeah, it's like, I've been staying there for like when I was for, I think.

Okay.

And your parents were they together?

Oh no, that's why my parents get divorced when I was like two three

so I lived by my mom I'm the youngest of four right the small one not so small though, but...

No, because how tall are you, Tommy?

I think in feet, it's like six tree, I think.

Yeah, you're a pretty big guy.

Yeah, when you walk around the ponds here, you've got a presence for sure.

Oh, yeah, no, it's good, it's good.

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