Cut & Retie

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, 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, 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, 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.

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, 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, 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.

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, 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.

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

This week, artist, sculptor and angler, Ben Keating, makes perfect chicken Parm and gets rappers to give up their bling for charity, we lose in a fishing tournament but win for most diapers reeled in, launch flip-flops at the Verrazano Bridge and then go pheasant hunting in a dirt lot, and get our jean jackets airbrushed while attacking fluke with a cane pole.

This week, veteran Florida captain Ed Zyak gets turned off by crackers and turned on to homemade sun protection paste, we threaten to burn down the house of all the fish unwilling to smash a live croaker, get the shoulder pat of glory after gawking at massive resident dock pets, and lose the brakes on our truck just as we're trying to make a good impression on a legendary fishing writer.

John Frazier abandons his fly rod, saves the baby, pays the pole dancer, and suffers the long-term consequences