Ep85 - Elevating Your Dog Training with Cascade Retrievers
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Dive Bomb SquadCast, Matt Judy sits down with Colin Ching of Cascade Retrievers to talk all things dog training and the journey from weekend waterfowler to full-time trainer. Colin breaks down what it really takes to build a steady, confident hunting dog — from picking the right pup to the countless hours of repetition, patience, and experience that go into the process.
We dive into the difference between self-training and sending a dog to a pro, the importance of mock hunts, and how understanding dog behavior separates great trainers from average ones. Colin also gives a behind-the-scenes look at the hunt test circuit and drops valuable advice for anyone hoping to get the most out of their next gun dog.
Whether you’re running a finished retriever or just starting out with your first pup, this episode is packed with insight from one of the best in the business.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome back to the dive bomb squad cast, episode 85 coming at you. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm your host, Matt, Judy. |
| 0:14.8 | And today we have one of the best retriever trainers in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:19.7 | And he also trained my dog Drifter. We have Colin Ching of Cascade Retrievers on with us today. How are we doing, Colin? Doing pretty good, Matt. Thanks for having me. Yeah, no problem, man. Thanks for taking the time to come on. I'm sure you're getting pretty busy, dude. I'm sure. Yeah, we're fighting the daylight every day, but we're getting out. |
| 0:40.2 | I was going to say, you said you get done training dogs about 7.30. I'm like, dude, |
| 0:44.1 | you got to be running out of daylight now in October. It gets dark at like 650 now. |
| 0:49.5 | I know it. We're, uh, we're going to that last light and beyond sometimes. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, that's got to be. |
| 0:58.2 | Do you do like any indoor training when you run out of light or not? |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, for sure. |
| 1:02.8 | I mean, I'm saving a lot of basic training, like your obedience, all that new stuff for |
| 1:09.2 | dogs just coming in. |
| 1:10.6 | We're saving that for when the lights are |
| 1:12.6 | are on gotcha yeah i could see that how many dogs do you have right now full a full load yeah we got |
| 1:20.0 | a full load we just sent two home they finished up this week and waiting for two more to come in |
| 1:25.6 | at the end of this week nice Nice. Heck yeah, dude. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, Colin, I kind of just wanted to start out and kind of just get the history of Colin |
| 1:33.2 | and how all of this started for you from like the very beginning and it turning into this business |
| 1:39.0 | of Cascade Retrievers right now. And I mean, you have an awesome training facility and just |
| 1:43.7 | kind of kind of from the beginning of how it all started. Yeah, I mean, you have an awesome training facility and just kind of kind of from |
| 1:44.6 | the beginning of how it all started. Yeah, I mean, I probably started like most people, pretty |
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