Fly fishing is where patience meets purpose. Every cast a quiet conversation with the river.

Today's guest has turned those quiet conversations into a full-time calling. We're going to talk

about how he left the corporate grind at J.P. Morgan to build a full-time gig in Utah, an outfitting

service where he focuses not just on catching fish, but learning

the details to make a difference.

From the tailwaters of the Provo to the hidden high country creeks, our guest is going to walk

us through small minor adjustments that can make big differences on the stream.

This is the wet fly 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 the fish species

we all love. Michael Brian is here and he is here to take us into Utah fishing the Provo River.

We're going to talk about streamer bites during a pre-spawn. We're going to get into blue

and all of hatches, how to lighten up your rig in the spring, and why most guides in the Rockies still keep one rod rigged with the technique we're going to talk about today. It's a good one, and it's called the bounce rig. We're going to find out why winter trout needs slower drifts and lighter shots and how a subtle check instead of a hard set

can keep things button up during your fishing. All right, let's get into it. Here he is. Lots of

good stuff today. Michael Bryan. You can find him at flyfish with me, Utah.com or on Instagram. Here

we go. How's it going, Mike? I'm doing great. Thanks, Dave. Yeah, really, really excited to be here. Yeah, this is going to be great. I think, you know, you're in a place, Utah, which is, you know, kind of, I feel like it's right in that hotspot area, right? We've done a ton of stuff up north in Idaho. There's Wyoming. There's all these western states. And, of course, you've got some big players out in Utah, fly fish food and all the gang

and all that stuff. So I feel like to me it's a hotspot, but maybe is a little bit off the radar, you know, for some people. And I want to talk about that. I think it's a little overlooked. Yeah, it's overlooked. Yeah. It's funny. when people think about fly fishing in the Rockies,

Colorado, Montana,ies, Colorado,

Montana, Idaho, Wyoming often pop up, but Utah hasn't been on the radar for a little while,

and it's, I don't know why. It's, we're really, one of the big benefits to Utah is the proximity to the airport and fishing.

So whereas, and not to knock any other state, but I know within 40 minutes of touching down

at Salt Lake Airport, you can have boots in the water and getting lines wet, which, which is tough to say about some of

my neighboring states, right? Yeah. And up until, I was just told earlier this year, up until about

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