Welcome to the Wet Fly Swing Great Lakes. I'm your host Jeff Liskay, aka Great Lakes Dude.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Darcy Egan, long-time playing dealer, editor for the sports section, long-time friend.

But this episode is going to get pretty interesting.

If you're listening and want to hear information about the southern shores of Lake Erie

and what's going on in the famous steelhead alley, aka Rainbow Alley, I have a long-time friend

and the active president from the Ohio Central Basin Steel Hearders.

We are going to dive into what's going on with the programs, what to expect in the next four

or five years. We're going to talk about lampraise. We're going to talk about some fishing.

We're just going to talk about everything to bring you up to date.

And Tom is the guy.

And it seems like only yesterday in 1984 that I was sitting at the Rodmakers shop in Strongville, Ohio.

And I was on a steering community of 12. The owner, Don Gunlein, wanted us to start a

steelhead program and a club. And he was the driving force that started it. And then a good friend

of mine, Mike Spanulo, bless his soul, he's now not with this, but he was the first president, and we were not involved

with Ohio at all. We were in a chapter of the Michigan steelheaders for the first couple years,

but it seems like just yesterday that I was sitting in the basement, and now Tom is at the helm

of this great club that is advanced 200 folds 40 years later and I'm

proud to present him today Tom welcome to the show thank you Jeff like you said I'm the current

president of the OCBS I joined OCBS back in 1990, and I really moved here from Pittsburgh, didn't know a

whole lot about steelhead fishing or anything back then, but I would often see in the newspaper

stories about Jeff Liske and Mike Spanolo chasing steelhead all around Ohio and Pennsylvania,

and thought, boy, this is pretty good. Actually,

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