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Reno Fly Shop Podcast

Jim Litchfield, owner and guide, will introduce you to the industry reps, fly fishing guides and characters that impact fly fishing. The Reno Fly Shop podcast will be your source for the up to date fly fishing report for the Reno/Tahoe area and northern Sierra.
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Now displaying: March, 2019
Mar 21, 2019

We are excited to introduce you to today’s episode which is the first installment of a new series we are presenting in partnership with Fly Water Travel. We will feature a new destination every few months for the next year.

During each episode we will present information and exciting details about fly fishing destinations around the world by chatting with the guides and outfitters that make these trips possible.

We will introduce you to world famous destinations in freshwater and saltwater, domestic and international. We hope to pull back the curtain by sitting with the colorful people that make these fly fishing destinations possible for all of us. I hope you enjoy and take some time to check out the show notes at renoflyshop.com and learn about more about these amazing destinations.


Today’s guests are David and Dillon Renton that make up half of the Renton River Adventures. Renton River Adventures is a family run, fly-fishing outfitter based out of Bend, Oregon. David and Debbie Renton, along with their sons Dillon and Knut, make up the team and work together throughout the year to provide you many different fly-fishing opportunities and destinations. 

In this episode I got to chat with David and Dillon about their history of living, fly fishing and guiding the Deschutes River. You will hear their passion and appreciation in the voices and stories of this famous river.

They breakdown the seasons on the lower Deschutes. Where they describe how you can chase rainbow trout all summer starting with huge Salmonflies on the surface in May and June, into July when summer hatches make great trout fishing throughout the long warm days.

In mid July the anadromous summer Steelhead begin to move into the system from the Columbia River and swinging flies with two handers can provide absolutely life changing experiences with a fly rod.

Click here to Find more about Booking a float trip with the Renton’s this summer on the Lower Deschutes River

Combine great fishing with first class camping and the chance to sleep under starry summer skies and you have the chance to make lifelong memories.


 
 
 

I hope you enjoy this conversation with David and Dillon Renton and take a hard look at your calendar and find a time to book a Deschutes River trip this summer.

There is a link in today’s show notes that will help you find out more information about floating the Deschutes with David and Dillon. Follow the link to a great summer trip on the lower Deschutes with the Renton Family.


Click here to Find more about Booking a float trip with the Renton’s this summer on the Lower Deschutes River


Ways to contact David and Dillon Renton and the Renton River Adventures

Facebook: Renton River Adventures

Instagram: Dillon and David Renton

Website: Renton River Adventures

To book a trip this summer: Lower Deschutes River Float Trips


Renton River Adventures operates fly-fishing float trips on the Lower Deschutes under a special use permit issued by the BLM. 

Mar 5, 2019

Look before you step. Look before you fish.”

– Landon Mayer, Mastering the Short Game

Today's guest, Landon Mayer, like many successful people, is many things all at once. He is a guide, an author, fly designer, he is a film maker, and a loving committed husband and parent. And like many successful people this hectic schedule fuels his desire to create than to consume. He doesn’t have to move about the country presenting and instructing at shows and to clubs on fly fishing and fly tying. Nor does he have to travel around the world to create a new instructional video, magazine article or book for us to enjoy. But we are lucky and better anglers because he does.

It helps that Landon is gifted with what seems like an endless energy source and a burning curiosity to make himself and everyone around him better at what they are doing.

One of Landon’s recent projects was to create a video for novice and expert fly anglers called Mastering the Short Game. This video pulls back the curtain on years of his experience guiding clients and fly fishing around the world. Landon strongly believes that the majority of trout that you will catch will be within 20’ of you. And with the right approach and tactics you will begin to put more numbers and bigger fish into the net.

Landon and his team have put together amazing content and information for us to appreciate this successful approach. You will begin to understand things that you might have been exposed to but lacked the context of fully grasping. This video will break these concepts down in a way that you will most likely, like many of us, want to watch over and over.

In this episode Landon and I are able to breakdown many of the topics that he presents in Mastering the Short Game and how these can work on some your local water. We also get to discuss his perspective on Pyramid Lake and why he feels it is such and amazing opportunity to catch a trophy trout.

As always please leave any comments or questions you have on our social media platforms. We will read and respond to every one of them.

Show Notes:

Purchase your own copy of the video Mastering the Short Game from renoflyshop.com by clicking this link

 

Contact info or ways to follow Landon:

Email: landonmayerflyfishing.com

Website: Landon Mayer Fly Fishing . com

Instagram: @landonmayerflyfishing

Facebook: Landon Mayer


Another of Landon’s recent projects that we discuss is the book The Hunt for Giant Trout: 25 Best Places to Catch a TrophyPick up your copy here.

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