Great Lakes Dude #11 | Great Lakes Fishing & Conservation with D'Arcy Egan and Jeff Liskay
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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In this episode, Jeff Liskay, aka the "Great Lakes Dude," is joined by longtime outdoor writer D'Arcy Egan. With over 50 years of experience covering fishing and conservation in Ohio, D'Arcy shares his knowledge of Lake Erie's transformation, the steelhead boom, and the history of fishery management in the region. From early days fishing for perch to breaking conservation stories, this episode is packed with insights into one of the most underrated fisheries in the country.
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What You'll Learn in This Episode
- How Lake Erie's fishery evolved from pollution to world-class walleye and steelhead fishing.
- The role of conservation efforts in restoring species like bald eagles and yellow perch.
- The impact of invasive species and commercial fishing on Great Lakes fisheries.
- The best spots and techniques for targeting steelhead, smallmouth bass, and even catfish on the fly.
- Why the Cuyahoga River's transformation is a success story for anglers.
Jeff and D'Arcy dive deep into the rich history of Ohio's fishing scene, including stories of legendary anglers, conservation battles, and the growing potential of the Cuyahoga River. If you love the Great Lakes, steelhead fishing, or just good old-fashioned fish stories, this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, this is your great legs dude, Jeff Liskay, coming to you on the Wet Fly Swing podcast, |
| 0:08.1 | where we're going to be going rage angler on all things Great Lakes, from gear, fly, big water, |
| 0:15.5 | and swinging flies, of course. If it concerns the Great Lakes, we've got you covered, |
| 0:20.1 | so stay tuned to this next episode. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to the Wet Fly Swing podcast, Great Lakes. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm your host Jeff Luske, aka Great Lakes Dude. |
| 0:31.8 | It's been a while since the listeners, I've had a podcast, and after around 200-some days of guiding and destination and another |
| 0:40.5 | grandkiddle born, I'm back at it. I have a great episode for you, really long-time friend, |
| 0:47.9 | Darcy Egan, long-time outdoor writer for the claim-blame plane dealer for over 50 years. I'm super excited to dive into a whole |
| 0:55.9 | bunch of topics with him, but without further ado, Darcy, welcome to the show. Jeff is so good |
| 1:01.8 | to be with you. You know, we've spent a lot of time together over the years, and I'm talking decades. |
| 1:06.6 | It's been really an awful lot of fun, but one of the things that I'm an outdoor writer, and that's primarily what I am, |
| 1:13.7 | I'm an outdoor writer for the plane dealer, but I also do radio and television and magazine articles. |
| 1:19.7 | And one of the things I learned early on, that in order to be able to do what I did and do it well, |
| 1:30.0 | you have to have the knowledge, |
| 1:37.8 | you have to know the terminology, you have to hands on, be out there with experts who can show you how much the fun is that we're having out on the rivers, out on the lakes, in the turkey woods, in the deer woods. |
| 1:45.9 | It doesn't really matter. |
| 1:47.2 | But you have to know the terminology. |
| 1:49.2 | You have to know the hows and whys of what we're doing. |
| 1:53.2 | And, of course, if you do that, you'll also have an incredible amount of fun. |
| 1:58.6 | And some of the guys that I've had the most fun with |
| 2:01.8 | are guys like you fishing steelhead trout because Northeast Ohio is really a mecca, |
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