Fly Guides Podcast
North Carolina with John Conits - Haresear Fly Fishing
We have had the privilege of interviewing over 75 guides in our three years of doing the show. It's been one of the great pleasures of our lives. We never dreamed that when we started this, we would have the chance to talk to a fly-fishing czar from the kingdom of Bhutan, or a world-renowned guide in Chile, or find new and up-and-coming people from all over the world who have found their peace and joy in the sport of Fly Fishing — but we have, and it has truly been incredible. To hear the stories of people who are passionately pursuing the guide life has been inspirational and thoroughly rewarding. This past weekend, I had the chance to fish with one of the guides we interviewed in season 3. Scott and I joke every time we finish an episode about how much we want to go fishing with the guide we just spoke with. In many ways, it’s a running theme on the show that we would love to quit our jobs and just be on the water every chance we get. But life and work get in the way of being out there as often as we might hope. But the planets aligned this past weekend when I took a trip to Greenville, South Carolina, to visit my youngest son at his college. We were there to watch his swim meet, but I reached out to John Conits, our first guide from the Deep South, and asked if we could take him up on the offer to go fishing together.
