The Fly Tapes

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Episode 05—Greg Fitz Dec 11, 2017

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Gregory Fitz is a lifelong midwesterner recently transplanted to the PNW. He doesn’t work in tech and he isn’t a Seahawks fan yet. Minnesotans wear flannel, too, so he might be grunge.

After years of chasing migratory great lakes fish with two-handed rods, he is now in the process of getting a beatdown on the hallowed natal steelhead and salmon rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean. It is an exercise in humility.

His fishing writing has appeared in The Fly Fish Journal, The Drake, This is Fly, Swing the Fly and the Mend Provision blog. His art can be seen at www.gregoryfitz.net.

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Music: Singing in the Rain (Instrumental) by D avid Mumford, from Free Music Archive, under C C BY 4.0.

Episode 04—Jeff Galbraith Nov 27, 2017

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In 2001, Jeff Galbraith and his wife Jessie Lu moved from Idaho to Seattle and started frequency: The Snowboarder's Journal. Over the next eight years, that first title would be followed by The Ski Journal in 2006, and in 2009, The Flyfish Journal.

Since its inception, The Flyfish Journal has carved out a unique place in the world of arts and letters in fly fishing. Galbraith's dedication to finding the best possible content--and to presenting that content in archival quality issues that will be at home on your bookshelf for years to come--has given the lie to the commonly heard maxim that "print is dead."

This episode is made possible with support from Patagonia.

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Music: Twinkle Twinkle (Instrumental) by D avid Mumford, from Free Music Archive, under C C BY 4.0.

Episode 03—Langdon Cook Nov 13, 2017

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Episode 03 of the Fly Tapes features author Langdon Cook. From Langdon's website:

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table (Ballantine, May 2017), The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, which The Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical and quixotic.”

Prior to the interview I had with Langdon, you'll hear him read his story, Stones in the River, recorded live during the 2016 Cascadia Tour in Seattle.

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Music: That Hill It Has Already Gone Away by adcBicycle, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY/SA.

Episode 02—Dylan Tomine, Part 2 Oct 29, 2017

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Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Dylan Tomine. In this episode, you'll hear Dylan read two pieces from the Portland stop during the 2016 Cascadia Tour: Luck and Salmon Dreams. You'll also hear us talk a bit about the writing life, how he came upon the idea for his book, Closer to the Ground, and a somewhat roundabout meeting with Thomas McGuane.

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Music: As I Was Saying and How I Used to See the Stars by Lee Rosevere, from Free Music Archive under CC BY 4.0

Episode 01—Dylan Tomine, Part One Oct 15, 2017

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Dylan Tomine is "a writer, conservation advocate, blueberry farmer, and father, not necessarily in that order." His work has been published in The Flyfish Journal, The Drake, and other fly fishing publications. In 2012, Patagonia Books published Dylan's first book, Closer to the Ground: An outdoor family's year on the water, in the woods and at the table. In his forward to the book, Thomas McGuane wrote, "This author is leading by example, and the quiet message is to learn to live with the things that really matter, the eternal things about the earth, and about each other."

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Music: Let's Start at the Beginning by Lee Rosevere, from Free Music Archive under CC BY 4.0

Episode 00--Welcome to The Fly Tapes Podcast Oct 04, 2017

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Follow The Fly Tapes Podcast on iTunes and here at Syzygy Fly Fishing for enriching conversations with fly fishing writers and artists, and readings from some of the best new and old voices in the world of fly fishing writing. Reading excerpts from Dylan Tomine, Langdon Cook, Cameron K Scott, and Steve Duda.

Episode 01 with Dylan Tomine is coming soon.

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Music: Let's Start at the Beginning by Lee Rosevere, from Free Music Archive under CC BY 4.0