This week, Miles Nolte dons “gum boots” and plays Santa at the Kiwi hatchery pond, we ruin Christmas by forgetting that water freezes when it’s cold, glue two pairs of waders together and hope our Doc Martens stay dry, and make our wives pick out super-complicated lures for us.

This week, Zach “Hammer” Miller and Captain Frank Campbell join forces to overtake Skein Bag Sam, we bring the smoke to the gambling hall and get on a hot brown streak, plead with nine cable access viewers to help us feel our hands, and discuss how soup isn’t really that good.

This week, veteran filmmaker R.A. Beattie follows topwater retrieves for 30 days to capture one clip of his grandpa’s garage exploding, we explain why Mongolia is like Montana minus all the yoga dojos, clean out our drawers and ship the contents to Slovenia, and use AI to create the perfect salmon for the Duke of Wolsingham.

This week, Mike Iaconelli grabs his waders and steps into awkward boudoir shot hand-offs, we throw glide baits behind the worst department store of the 90s, explain why your kid is better at fishing a Senko than you are, and poison invasive species with liquor and real bits of gold.

This week, Tim Romano bear hugs a muskie and counts your little floaters, we poach stocked trout because our dad says it’s OK, get adopted by a Mexican family that gives us illegal plants, and throw a drift boat in the dumpster because we don’t want to talk to strangers.

This week, C&R sound engineer “Magic” Mike Pedersen flies all the way from British Columbia for smoked dogfish with mustard on rye, we throw pork roll at striped bass from the top of the Empire State Building, get kicked out of Applebee’s for wearing vulgar T-shirts, and nearly burn down a church with hot chocolate peanut bunker action.

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This week, Jimmy Fee misses the mark on a PB British mullet by a mere five ounces, we get so tweaked about trophy tog that we throw our soiled waders in the trash, decide rigs we’ve been tying for 20 years are suddenly inadequate, and drink crab whiskey as we mourn a chance to fish for stripers we know aren’t even there.

This week, C&R listeners share their spine-chilling stories of bloodthirsty meth head encounters, run-ins with wolf-spider hybrids in the spirit world, and ghosts that just want to bum a smoke. Along the way, we’ll scare the clothes back onto naked hippies, meet Satan at the trout hole, and try to sleep while wild beasts circle some happy campers.

This week, Oliver Ngy gives us the slow pitch for managing bass fishing with lemon pepper, we enjoy bonefish stew while the law man inspects our anchor rope, lose expensive baits in the money pit that is boat ownership, and teach old-school Uncle Larry some new-school rockfish tricks.