This is Rick Custitch, author, guide, and travel host, and you are tuned into the Hunting with the Fly podcast, where we dive deep into the strategy, approach, flies, and culture surrounding the fly fishing pursuit of apex fish like musky, pike, trophy trout, and saltwater predators.

Fuling a fish at the top of the food chain requires the focus and commitment to understand

the quarry's habits, going beyond simply casting and retrieving a fly.

Each episode is geared towards information to improve your angling and enjoyment of a quest.

If it concerns big flies and aggressive eats, we have it covered here

on the Hunting with the Fly podcast. Please stay tuned. Welcome to Hunting with the Fly podcast.

Today we are Talking Musky with Joe Goodspeed. Many of you know Joe or know of him, but for those that don't, Joe is a highly

accomplished flycaster and angler in both fresh and salt water. He has worked full time in the

fly fishing industry for nearly 20 years, signature tire for a fulling mill, and designs fly rods

and operates the Diamond pack fly rod company.

Many of his designs are being considered the new standard in the industry.

But above all of that, Joe has an incredibly analytic mind and the ability to think out of the

box with this fly fishing approach.

It's probably the thing that I appreciate most about Joe and fishing with him.

Thank you, Rick.

That makes me out to be more than I probably am,

but glad to be able to, you know, come and share some of our, you know,

mutual knowledge about this stuff.

Yeah, no, honored to have you as my first guest on this new series.

Yeah, I guess I really kind of wanted to start just a little bit by talking about our

fishing history together.

Certainly have enjoyed that over the last 10 years.

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