Dads On The Fly
Sept. 22, 2026

192. Smallmouth Euphoria

192. Smallmouth Euphoria

Sometimes you just have a week where everything finally clicks.

Joshua and Caleb start this episode with a little life update coving things like; watching your first kid get a driver's permit, playing a whole lot of golf, and taking the family to the Biltmore Championship. Then the conversation takes a hard turn toward something they've been chasing for the better part of four years: smallmouth euphoria.

After years of figuring out rivers, studying water, missing fish, getting skunked, finding put-ins and take-outs, and generally wondering if they were ever going to actually figure out smallmouth, something finally clicked. September brought a week of catching a ridiculous number of fish, and with it came the realization that maybe, just maybe, they've finally cracked the code.

Joshua and Caleb talk about what it took to get there, the hilarious learning curve of figuring out where to launch and where to get off the river, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what it's like when all that time and effort finally turns into the kind of fishing you've been dreaming about.

It's a little parenting, a little golf, a little family life, and a whole lot of smallmouth.

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