He didn't grow up with a fly rod in his hand.

In fact, for a long time, he wanted nothing to do with fly fishing.

But that changed after a summer spent filming anglers on a remote river in Alaska,

watching cast after cast and eventually seeing the light.

In this episode, you're going to hear how the first season on the water sparked a quiet shift

leading to a new

approach to fishing, a deeper respect for the resource, and a total career pivot.

Today we talk about the challenge of running a lodge through uncertainty, what it takes to

build a spay program from scratch, and how learning to cast with two hands, open the door to

something much bigger.

This is the webfly swing podcast where I show you the

best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare

for that big trip, and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love.

Jordan Larson, Togiac River Lodge owner and first generation spay angler, takes us on the inside

of what it's really like to build a fishing

program from the ground up. We're going to dig deep into one of the most remote corners of the

world up in Alaska. You're going to hear about this summer job as a videographer turned into a

full-blown obsession, what it took to learn, two-handed from scratch.

We're going to talk about that again.

This all started on the dock on the back of the lodge, and then how chasing Kings and the

swing might just reset what you know about fly fishing today.

All right, we're breaking down all the challenges of what it's like.

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