Avsnitt
-
Jay Nichols has been an editor, publisher, photographer, videographer, and author for more than 25 years and has produced some of the most iconic and influential fly-fishing books, including “Casting with Lefty Kreh” (2008). In this episode, we sit down with Jay to discuss his directorial debut in the documentary “Lefty: The Greatest of All Time” Premiering March 27 at the Weinberg Center. The conversation starts with his upbringing, education, his journey in fly fishing, and swings into his involvement in publishing much of the great fly-fishing literature of this century. Ross and Jay also explore Jay’s decades-long relationship with Lefty, go behind the scenes in the making of the film, and learn about Lefty’s “super power.” Hint: It wasn’t his casting.
-
Author and fly-casting coach Ed Jaworowski has been teaching and instructing for 45+ years, and before he took up fly casting he was a competitive surf caster. He wrote two seminal books on fly casting: The Cast (2005) and Perfecting the Cast (2021). He is also the author of Troubleshooting the Cast (1999) and co-author with Bob Popovics of the fly-tying masterpiece Pop Fleyes (2014). On today’s episode we talk to Ed about his five-part 2025 casting series in Fly Fisherman magazine titled Functional Fly Casting. We also discuss his career as a classics professor at Villanova University, how he approaches his research and his teaching philosophy, and we talk about his long friendship and many collaborations with Lefty Kreh.
-
Saknas det avsnitt?
