Randy Simons from Randy's Rentals on the SW shores of Mille Lacs Lake. Renting ice fishing shacks and plowing roads out onto the big pond. We wade into the controversial waters of Mille Lacs regulations.

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Not every fishing trip is a pleasure. Sometimes nothing goes right this episode goes into detail of how that can happen.

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When I went to SealFit Kokoro, a 50 hour camp run by Navy Seals, one of the first things we learned was the technique of Box Breathing. Box Breathing is a technique that calls for breathing in for a specific time, holding for a time, breathing out for a time and then holding for a time. Repeat this 5-10 times.

The idea of box breathing is that this protocol allows us to move from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic nervous system or from fight or flight to relaxation. It turns out that we learned this technique early because we would find many…many times that we would be placed in chaos and definitely in fight or flight and need to make decisions without emotion and clear headed.

The technique is simple. Lets take 5 as the count for all sides of the box. You simply breathe in for 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds, breathe out for 5 seconds and hold for 5 seconds. Repeat this 5 to 10 times.

Try this when feeling anxious or preparing to perform. Maybe even when you are poling up on a big tarpon and your knees are knocking and breath is shallow. Let me know what you think of this technique by emailing me at [email protected] and leave a comment below.

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Picture this. It's a sweltering hot, windy day in the Everglades. You're covered head to toe in UV protective clothing to avoid getting sunburned on top of the sunburn you already have from the fishing outing a couple of days earlier (lesson learned the hard way!). You're fishing the flats with a super experienced captain and guide and you're paired up with an airforce vet who traveled all the way down from Alaska to be a part of this amazing adventure. The fishing's been hard due to the windy conditions and the partly cloudy skies. It's finally time to break for lunch. Then...the unthinkable happens...

You'll have to listen to this week's episode to get "the rest of the story!"

This week you'll meet Katie Puterbaugh. She's a die-hard fly angler, a Florida native but a retired airforce veteran that's made her home in Alaska for the past 25 years with her husband, also a retired airforce vet. He works at a local fishing shop and is a scoutmaster for the local Boy Scout troop, which affords Katie a lot of free time. What else do you do with free time in Alaska? You fish of course! 

And fish she does...

I was interested to learn about Katie as we were traveling down from Nashville, TN to Homosassa, FL on Rip and Hopper's Redfish Roadie Roadtrip. A quick Google search in-between posting Instagram Stories covering the first day of our journey revealed some intriguing articles. I thought, wow, this is a seriously fishy lady! One was titled, "Super fly fisherwoman catches 1,000 pounds of salmon." Another article I came across was an article written on the Project Healing Waters website about fishing with Katie in the Florida Keys. I knew I was going to have an upstanding roommate and fishing partner on a good portion of this trip. I couldn't wait to meet and chat with her. 

I definitely wasn't disappointed. To top it all off, Katie has a great sense of humor too. Jen, Heather and I enjoyed making good-hearted fun of the fact that she's very tall and skinny as a stick but as Katie herself jokes, she doesn't have just one sweet tooth but a whole mouth full of them! We caught her rummaging through the gas stations for powdered mini donuts on multiple occasions. 

You too are really going to enjoy meeting Katie through our conversation on the podcast episode as we make the drive back to Marco Island from the Everglades...just happy to be alive! 

 

 

 

Additional Resources:

Shallow Sightings Fly Fishing in Homosassa (Kyle Staton)

Captain John Hand

Project Healing Waters

Fish with a Hero

Alaska Star Article on Katie Puterbaugh

Project Healing Waters Article on Katie Puterbaugh

Rip and Hopper's Adventure on Instagram

Rip and Hopper's Adventure on Facebook

DUN Magazine

United Women on the Fly

The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Page

The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Group

The Woman Angler & Adventurer on Instagram

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Listen on iHeartRadio

 Full show notes at thewomanangler.com/87

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When it all [actually] goes wrong. This week, Alex and I sit down and talk about how a small mindset change can set you up to have a safe and disaster free season. Too often we glaze over this topic and it doesn't surface until we've had a near death or have heard of someone else's tragedy. In this episode you'll find helpful techniques, principles and some actual tactics to stay safe out there.

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I know we have talked about the Deck of Cards a lot on this podcast, but I want to give you some variations of the Deck of Cards that you can do. No matter how many times I talk about it I continue to get questions about it, so lets go over it one more time. In an average deck of cards you have for suits (hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs). Face cards in this deck equal 10 and aces equal 11 or 1 if you need to scale it back. So from this point I will assign an exercise to each suit (for example burpees|spades, pushups|clubs, sit-ups|hearts, and squats|diamonds. So if you turn over a 3 of spades, that is 3 burpees, but a Queen of clubs would be 10 pushups.

If you are outside you can take advantage of Joker cards or blank cards, designate them to be a running exercise or pull-ups. But often I will do this in a small space (like a hotel room) where I will have to just disregard the Jokers. So now that the Deck of Cards layout is established, let's go over some variations that I really like to mix up the Deck of Cards workout:

Spades: Burpees, Clubs: Pushups, Hearts: Sit-ups, and Diamonds: Squats

Black Cards: Burpees, Red Cards: Pushups

Scale It Down: Face cards = 5, Cut the Deck in Half

Spades: Sit-ups, Clubs: Flutter Kicks, Hearts: V-ups, and Diamonds: Supermans

Spades: Toes to Bar, Clubs: Knees To Elbow, Hearts: Sit-ups, and Diamonds: V-ups

Spades: Single Arm Snatches, Clubs: Single Arm Swings, Hearts: Goblet Squats, and Diamonds: Weighted Lunges

The Deck of Cards workout has been my number 1 go-to for traveling workouts. It is phenomenal because it requires no equipment and little thought. It is something that I can squeeze in no matter how busy I am and there is no excuse for me not getting a workout. If you have some variations to this workout, send me some of the exercises that you are doing ([email protected]) and I will try your workouts.

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BASS announced earlier today that they are launching a 5-tournament kayak series for 2020. What are the details? Format? What does this mean for the other national trails? Dr. Noisewater (Ken Morris) and I cover it from all angles on this emergency podcast!

 

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Chris Dombrowski is from Michigan and is known far and wide for his debut nonfiction book, Body Of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, And The World’s Most Elusive Fish. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris and getting to hear about his story and what inspired this book as well as his other fictional publications.

Chris is from Michigan and earned his MFA from Montana where he then published Fragments with Dusk in Them (2008), September Miniatures with Blood and Mars (2012), and the collections By Cold Water (2009) and Earth Again (2013). Chris is quite the poet and draws a lot of inspiration from an early reading of Norman McLean’s novella A River Runs Through It. Chris has earned awards and honors for Associated Writing Programs Intro Award, Alligator Juniper’s National Poetry Prize, and a runner-up for Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year.

Chris still lives in Montana where he is a fly-fishing guide, director of the 406 Writers’ Workshop and the Beargrass Writing Retreat, and the Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. Chris continues to write and teach alongside his many other gifts and is working on another nonfiction book.

Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, was hailed in The New York Times Book Review; lauded as “finely wrought and profoundly life-affirming.” The book was called “a spiritual memoir in the tradition of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” in Orion magazine. Body of Water was named to numerous Best Books of 2016 list, and the American Booksellers Association placed the paperback on its Top Ten Indie Next Picks for 2017-2018.

I highly recommend this book, you can click here and purchase it! Keep an eye out for more books from Chris and check out some of his older works and poetry!

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Pull up a seat, we're going to talk a little force fetch tonight. We get questions every day about force fetch like when do I start? How long does it take? What if my dog is too old, young, soft, stubborn, small, big, etc. Well, tonight we're starting our two part series on every single inch of force fetch. Let us know what you think in our DMs @loneduck.

Thank you to everyone for all the kind words, feedback and reviews. You're awesome and please know you're greatly appreciated.

PS. Had a few technical difficulties with mics tonight, not sure why but please be patient. I'm on it.

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Our guest today is Casey Kinler with Animal Agriculture Alliance. Animal Ag Alliance is all about keeping everyone in animal agriculture on the same page as well as bridging the gap between farm and fork. Casey will explain the mission of Animal Ag Alliance, tips they give to livestock farmers, information on their Primed and Prepared Summit, and more.

https://animalagalliance.org/

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