Episode 26: The Catskill Trout Fishing Dynasty-Part I- The Legends and Lore, The Rivers, The Hatches and Flies, The Tactics and Presentation-The State of the Catskill Trout fishery Past, Present, and Future. Guest: Catskill Historian/Iconic NYC Fly Angler- Joe Ceballos

Come join us in this three part/ 8 hour series as we delve deep into this iconic foundation of American Fly Fishing as we examine all the Catskill legends and lore, along with the iconic Catskill Rivers that laid the foundation for the modern Catch and Release American Fly Fishing movement in its most classic sense. We delve deep into the introduction of the German brown trout to the new world and America and how this was pivotal to the transformation of the modern hatch-matching fly fisher at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries and on to today's modern tactics. My guest and I examine all the iconic books, development of tactics, fly patterns and the evolution of the modern American Fly pattern that the legends like Gordon, Hewitt, LaBranche, Rhead, Jennings, Art Flick, Dettes', Darbees', Caucci and Nastasi, Swisher/ Richards and so many more have done to transform the British School of Fly Fishing into the iconic American tradition.