Ali Bair has managed to wrangle the lifestyle so many of us want -- cobbling together a career that matches our lifestyle. Ali is a fly-fishing guide in Colorado during the summers and works as a filmmaker in the off-season. This week we're talking about guide-life, the Covid fly-fishing boom, and how thinking beyond the all-day float trip opens up fly-fishing to more people.

3:00 Backcountry trout at camp = mmmm

7:00 Guiding the same rivers/places you fished as a kid

8:30 Seasonal double-life: fishing guide in the summers, filmmaker the rest of the year

10:00 Family vacay to Stanley Estes Park Hotel, aka the hotel from The Shining

15:00 Arkansas bass-fishing tips... black leech? White leech? Or huge 'ol dry flies like the grasshopper?

17:30 "Being a good guide goes so much beyond being good at fishing."

19:00 How you take an 18-month-old fly-fishing (don't opt out of the baby waders! Or worms getting cast into your face)

22:00 Pandemic was EXCELLENT for fly-fishing - AND - buying a fly-fishing business! Check out Sasquatch Fly Fishing

27:30 The "River Runs Through It" soundtrack... a personal fishing anthem in Montana

30:00 Fly-fishing business models: There's the two-custys-and-a-guide float trip program, AND other stuff -- like a backcountry hike to those harder-to-reach wade-fishing spots

33:00 Getting people into a basic fly-fishing experience is huge in recruiting new customers who'll come back summer after summer (like the $65/person intro trip at Sasquatch Fly Fishing)

36:00 Reel Women - guide service in the Tetons that operates trips everywhere

40:00 Making fly-fishing less cost-prohibitive

42:00 This is it! The podcasting version of a Fly-Fishing 101 lesson, where Ali talks us through casting

49:00 When you're casting, what's happening behind you can tell you more about what you're doing than what happens in front of you

53:00 Fishing isn't a 'guy's space' -- on family vacay or anytime else... it's for everyone! Yay!

1:00:00 Pandemic self-launches an online vintage clothing business, Little Vagabond Vintage  - the perfect complement to a person who cobbles together income from things they're passionate about

1:00:05 Finally getting that bear hide from two years ago after the taxidermist lost your phone number... #bestmoment Big bear, tiny house.