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Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

In the Bucket #16 | Sandy River Spey Clave with George Cook, Mia Sheppard, and Josh Linn

Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Dave Stewart

Wilderness, Hobbies, Leisure, Sports

4.7530 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Presented By: Heated Core, Four Wheel Campers, Fish The Fly, TroutRoutes

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In today's episode of In the Bucket podcast, we're joined by George Cook, Josh Linn, and Mia Sheppard. This is an all-star cast with considerable influence in the fly fishing industry, and together, they have contributed greatly to the way we fish today. Their combined experience includes many years of guiding fly shops, sales tackle, repping techniques, equipment development, casting instruction, event promotion, and winning three Spey-O-Rama titles. 

We also dig into the upcoming Sandy River Spey Clave in mid-May, one of the most awaited events for spey-casters. We hear how it became the "Woodstock of Spey," drawing anglers from around the world. 

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

I mean, if I tell one guy this, I'll tell 50 guys this at the clave.

0:07.1

There are no bad spay rods.

0:09.3

There's only spay rods who haven't found the right bullet to shoot out of it yet.

0:14.9

And so the lines, really, we can save anybody's spayrod from a life in a dusty garage if we can simply examine the rod

0:25.3

and select a line that we feel that of spay fishing in the Pacific Northwest,

0:46.9

a spectacular land of mountains and wild rivers where every cast has a story to tell.

0:51.5

I'm your host, Brian Niska.

0:58.7

In today's show, I'm going to be speaking with Mia Shepard, Josh Lynn, and George Cook.

1:02.7

This is an all-star cast with considerable influence in the fly fishing industry,

1:06.2

and together they have contributed greatly to the way we fish today.

1:09.1

Their combined experience includes many years of guiding,

1:11.5

fly shop sales, tackle reppping,

1:16.8

technique and equipment development, casting instruction, event promotion, and winning three spayorama titles.

1:18.2

Today I want to talk about the upcoming Sandy River Spayclave taking place in mid-May.

1:22.4

Let's get into it.

1:26.4

Right on, folks.

1:33.8

Thanks for joining us today. I'm super excited to have a conversation with Mia Shepard, Josh Lynn, and George Cook.

1:36.3

Mia, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?

1:45.1

Hi, Brian. Thanks for having me on the show. It's good to be here. And this is going to be a fun conversation with Josh and George and you and everybody.

1:52.7

So anyway, my husband, Marty and I, we own a small company called Little Creek Outfitters in Oregon.

2:03.4

And we have been guiding on some of Oregon's rivers since 2003, the Deshutes, the John Day, the Grand Rond, and the Sandy River for steelhead trout and smallmouth bass. And yeah, that's about it. Hey, I'm Josh. Thanks for

2:11.4

having me on the show. This is going to be awesome. I started spay casting around 2000 and have known Marty and Mia since well before that.

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