GLD #16 | Steelhead Swing Tips with Pat Beahen of Bulkley River Lodge - Great Lakes Dude Podcast
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
#850 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/850
Presented by: Drifthook Fly Fishing, Four Wheel Campers, Jackson Hole Fly Company, Yellowstone Teton Territory - Visit Idaho
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When you spend enough time around steelhead guides, you start to notice something: the truly fishy ones never stop learning. That's exactly the vibe I get every time I'm on the river with Pat Beahen. The guy reads water like it's printed in large font, and he's got this river-smart intensity that makes you believe a fish could grab at any second.
This episode pulls together decades of Pat's life chasing steelhead across BC — from Whistler beginnings to long seasons on the Bulkley and the Dean. If you're a Great Lakes angler looking to level up your swung-fly game, this one's packed with insight.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/850
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, this is your great legs dude, Jeff Luske. |
| 0:05.0 | Coming to you on the Wet Fly Swing Podcast, where we're going to be going |
| 0:09.0 | rage angler on all things Great Lakes, from gear, fly, big water, and swinging flies, of |
| 0:16.5 | course. |
| 0:16.9 | If it concerns the Great Lakes, we've got you covered, so stay tuned to this next episode. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to the Wet Fly Swing Great Lakes podcast. I'm your host, Jeff Liskay, aka Great Lakes |
| 0:31.0 | Dude. Well, this episode is going to be from Canada. I have been up in BC for the last four weeks, visiting my great |
| 0:39.7 | friends across the border in Canada here, enjoying some great steelhead fishing, visiting some friends, |
| 0:46.0 | camaraderie, having some great times. But I'm blessed to be with some of the best steelhead guides |
| 0:52.0 | on the planet. So I figure while I'm up here, I would take advantage of interviewing some of my great friends |
| 0:58.5 | who've guiding me to some of my best steelhead help here in my life. |
| 1:02.3 | And I'm at the Bulkley River Lodge again interviewing the head guide, Pat Bion. |
| 1:08.2 | And I'm going to introduce you now, Pat. |
| 1:11.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:12.6 | Hi, Jeff. |
| 1:13.4 | Thanks for welcoming to the Wet Fly Swing podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | And yeah, excited to have a chat with you here. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | Let's toast. |
| 1:21.2 | A little Kokeney here. |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah, we're having a little blue can as we do up here on the Steelhead Rivers. |
| 1:27.1 | We're going to taste the adventure. |
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