This week, guide Drew Price teaches us how to pair a deep respect for an underdog species with the perfect Vermont cheese, we rig up a can of Diet Coke and explain why brown trout are too dumb to eat it, Jerry Garcia gives us the evil eye and hexes all future fishing endeavors, and then we thwart anaphylactic shock with smoked pork products.

This week, Nate P. of "Shore Lunch with Nate P." beams in to explain why Texas rigs are perfect when you have a really long walk to the water, we reveal the hotdog-pike connection Wisconsinites don't wan't you to know about, and learn how to cook jambalaya in sub-Arctic temperatures.

This week, savant fly designer Carl Harris uses math to make you question your long-rodding values, we learn how watching "Party Of Five" can help you catch more stripers, and then we move into an abandoned school bus and feast on smallmouth seasoned with rust and social anxiety.

This week, Hayden Sammak rolls into the Bunka with a fresh kill and a recipe for not screwing up your local wild brookie population, we cure a back pain with some pumpkin spice Trout Magnets, go shad fishing with Eraser Head, and find out why you can't hug Busta Rhymes with Euro-nymphing arms.

Grab a slice of pizza and join Captain Eric Kerber and Joe's neighbor, Steve McIntyre, for a pre-New Year's party featuring mudslinging over fish mugging, the worst knots of 2022, a pickerel so big you have to beat it with pliers, and a beer-fueled fishing pact sure to dissolve after a couple morning Alka Seltzers.

This week, Jimmy Fee, Cheech DeiCicchi, and Adam Eldridge of On The Water smear the studio bathroom with tequila and conger eel slime, we celebrate the holidays with a smallie-slaying church lady, and ask Santa for new Shake Weights to make alone time in our ice shanties more festive.

This week, Qualified Captain founder Aaron Stasiak tells us why you deserve to be shamed for striking fear into every one at the dockside Tiki hut, we conclude that the best way to help a fellow boater in a jam is to just keep fishing and pretend you don't see them, and a very scared man wearing a bright orange leaf tarp shares a turtle soup recipe.

This week, Zach "Hammer" Miller drives a riding lawnmower to the Causeway to doom snook and kids wearing joggers, we give worship and tribute to Billy the Greek, explain how to sneak past Toll Booth Willy, and discuss why it's worth being a charter captain for tax purposes only.

This week, Ross Robertson gets the lead out of his drive for Northeast salty glory from the comfort of an IKEA futon, Eric Kerber explains why people that crank spinning reels with their right hands fail during epic blitzes, and Miles Nolte reports that walleyes are pretty much a big joke in New Zealand, too.

This week, tattoo artist Drew Wilson and I borrow bath robes from our friends' dads and get squirmy worm ink after botching the most important cast of our lives, discuss the British invasion of Tears For Muskie Fears, and listen to a grown striper fisherman cry over a case of WD-40