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.

Fooling 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.

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I'm your host, Rick Custage. Instead of visiting with a guest today, I'm going to fly solo.

And the subject again will be musky.

While in the future we will cover a number of other apex fish, I feel like one of the things I'd like to accomplish with podcast is to extend what I've written about in hunting musky with a fly.

That's my book that was released in 2017.

And at this point, that information is about 10 years old,

and I think it's very relevant still when I look through it

and still receive good comments from readers,

that it's helped them quite a bit.

At the same time, I've fished a lot since I learned a lot when I was writing that book,

and I have fished many days since writing the book.

And I think that there have been a number of concepts, approaches, things that I do

maybe not necessarily differently, but that I do maybe not necessarily

differently but that I've expanded upon that I think has helped my success in the

last few years I think it's helped it significantly as you know really in the

probably the last six seven years had some some really some good success on particularly on bigger fish and i do think

there are a handful of things that kind of stick out pop up that um you know that have certainly led to

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