Cut & Retie

This week, listeners share fishing stories so scary you'll piss your waders and wish you spoke French, we get terrified by a catfish bite while dodging a shotgun-wielding caretaker, enter another dimension but return in time for the apocalypse blitz, and pan for gold on the island of missing children.

This week, the legendary Tom Rosenbauer celebrates 50 years at Orvis by not talking about his 50 years at Orvis, we explain why data centers are really screwing up your nymph game, steal fifty bucks from the bookie next door to buy more Surf Candies, and keep the carp dream alive by trying to bring back automatic fly reels.

This week, chef, author, and outdoorsman Hank Shaw throws a lead sinker through the window of a fellow highway forager, we jump on a party boat that's heavy on clams and light on fried chicken, challenge TSA to confiscate our fresh mackerel, and load up on steroids and soup before operating a subpar vacuum sealer.

This week, Stride Baits maker Jesse Stanislaw uses bots to make sure his boat is still there during a nor'easter, we teach you how to stick fish on glide baits without snapping off mid-cast, uncover dirty lies about the world's best diamond jigs, and factor in the depreciation on a mahi that shook your bait and stuck in right in your chest plate.

This week, Darren Jones and Troy "The Ranch Fairy" Fowler look for naked people and stock up on Top Dogs at the H.E.B., we make ceviche out of three-day-old tacos and fail to produce dock light trout, dip our feet in Mexican gravy to chum up some surf tarpon, and long for the days when Padre Island was so dangerous nobody with a Subaru ever showed up there.

This week, veteran Ozark fly guide, Steve Dally, keeps the garlic bread hot while stopping his boat from flipping over, we go full Iron Chef to find the next great streamer tyer, opt into the Wal-Mart lamb but pass on live grasshoppers, and get run off the road by a jellybean car on our way to the Love Fest.

This week, Nate P. of "Shore Lunch With Nate P" checks the lingerie section of JC Penny for tuna-stuffed trolling lures, we become tornadoes in the kitchen and tigers in the garden, get creeped out by a man with Ramen Noodle hair, and slather our fish steaks with Thousand Island dressing before having our favorite red spoon banished to the basement.

This week, YouTuber Sam Panko makes terrible footwear decisions and macro-influences some bronzebacks into the top of the funnel, we decide not to provoke Karens for video views and vow to never tie a uni-knot in braid again, roll the dice on baby snakes after our mom forced us to go to the trout park, and display no fear in the karate-bass summer camp dojo.

Guide Joe Demalderis fulfills green drake dreams and has green drake nightmares about the elasticity of geriatric chicken skin.

This week, guides Joe Demalderis and Bill Longstreet peer into the fog only to find a little mystery fish gumming up the works, we go full-blown panic mode when a bug touches our arm inappropriately, add squeaky sound effects to our moues fly retrieves, and find out that Frank from the bar likes to wear ladies underpants.

This week, artist Mike Sudal celebrates ice cold trout victory after opting for the magnum fenders, we fly all the way to Europe and realize we left our Van Staal at home on purpose, tape everyone's mouth shut while trying to dock at the marina, and loft a Hail Marty on the radio to learn how to turn our boat on for the first time.

This week, Miles Nolte drags his kid through the prop wash hoping to finally catch a largemouth worth mounting, we horrify medical professionals with the smell of our rotting ears, go on a noodling safari with a lovable screw-up, and recommend wedding venues where you can still catch massive rainbows even if you're accidentally drunk.

This week, legendary angler Pete Maina refuses to re-hook a fish for the sake of better Saturday morning TV, we crank some Foghat at the VFW and go night scoping for sponsorship deals, long for the days when trophies followed more than they ate, and add some balls to our Suicks to show the kids how it's done.

This week, Captain Frank Crescitelli bums a light from a man in the dog house 100 miles offshore, we catch a winning tuna after removing a hex by spitting on the ground, illegally drive to Florida so we can (kinda) legally drive in Staten Island, and pay divers to tell us were the giant fluke we won't catch live.

Tattoo artist Drew Wilson takes us on a slippery-slope bull trout adventure that requires emergency treatment from a common oral hygiene product.

This week, Tyler Winter of Native Fish For Tomorrow saves his favorite bumper sticker from a tragic riverside death, we critique your forked stick game while taunting you in a dunk tank, complain about fishing access in the middle of a wildfire, and fly fish for dinosaurs after overstimulating them with a Chug Bug that's way to big for non-existent trout.

This week, Captain Eric Kerber rips the pull-start so hard ever snakeheader in Maryland hears the backfire, we explain to kids that all their drinks are free because they have no money, pass on a rain coat in a downpour so we don't wind up sweaty, and use a tennis racket to bounce a frog off the heads of anyone we don't think should be in our fishing spot.

This week, tattoo artist Drew Wilson and guide Gabe Lloyd bicker over Amish style catfish tactics, we eat chocolate clay while dodging 100-year-old oak trees, wiggle minnow our way into grass flat smallmouth redemption, and convince ourselves everything is fine except for our experimental buzzbait flies and stay at the Not-The-Best Western.

This week, Captain Ross Robertson teaches us how to pick the perfect Yeti products for a baby shower, we yell at old men who are watching fish porn while missing actual fish on the line, slug a Four Loko before unveiling a bite so secret it doesn't actually exist, and chew bubble gum while chewing out everyone who's following us around the lake.

Guide Jacob Ott explains how tennis balls and river rocks don't mix, then follows up with naked trout stream fury