The River Rambler

Nov 26 2024 135 ep. 77 mins 26

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Like steelhead camp in your car, with host Richard Harrington

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Episode 134 - Tom Larimer

Nov 26 2024 129 mins

This week I'm joined by Tom Larimer and we have a great discussion to help get our American listeners through their Thanksgiving gatherings. We discuss the fun of growing up in the midwest, exploring Oregon and it's pronunciation, "The Voluntary Beatdown," bears and their mental prescence, how he got started guiding, knowing when you're the problem, over mending, art, our uknowing

Episode 133 - Monte Clarke

Nov 12 2024 69 mins

This week I'm speaking with Monte Clarke. We discuss his family's generations of adventure and growing up fly fishing, his surfing adventures and surfing in British Columbia, a bamboo obsession, hunting,and his experiences guiding on the Dean from boats to gear and bears.

Episode 132 - Kara Knight

Oct 29 2024 58 mins

This week I'm talking with Kara Knight. We discuss her fishing origins as an adventure guide on the west coast, the importance of a family atmosphere with guiding, competitive casting and her time in Sweden, having different fishing and casting rods, her more recent adventures in saltwater, the effects of competition on her fishing, and the head game that it is.

Episode 131 - Zach Morris and Dalton Walker

Oct 15 2024 71 mins

This week I'm joined by Zach Morris and Dalton Walker. We discuss our recent mid-river meeting, some brief life stories, jumping from gear to fly fishing, the unforgiveable act of low-holing, being a farrier for arabian horses, a need for new gear, widening beer horizons, and deadly murder-beavers.

Episode 130 Luke Kelly & Greg Fitz

Oct 01 2024 88 mins

The River Rambler is back from its September hiatus and I'm joined by Luke Kelly and Greg Fitz of Trout Unlimited. We start by talking about habitat restoration on the Olympic Peninsula, the cold water connection campaign, the importance and restoration of old growth log jams in rivers. We also discuss Luke's childhood spent fishing, smelly teen bedrooms, moving to Seattle and work

Episode 129 - Peter Harrison-Edge

Aug 27 2024 115 mins

This week I'm joined by Peter Harrison-Edge. We get straight to important discussions about smart mouthing, and then get to slightly more serious topics like his intro to fishing through Canadian television, building rods, learning from the pros, builidng a boat, canoe camp, the secret of accents, and be picked by the steelhead.

Episode 128 - Britt and Brian Davenport

Aug 13 2024 57 mins

This week I'm speaking with Britt and Brian Davenport. We discuss their starts to fishing, meeting in a chat room, cutthroat, delta wings and tying the fly of the year, fly tying as a creative outlet, bears, wilderness vs the city, dog talk, and their continuing journey towards steelhead.

Episode 127 - Matthew DeLorme

Jul 30 2024 64 mins

This week I'm joined again by Matthew DeLorme. We go into a deep dive about printmaking, including how he started work for Steve Duda's new book, his time getting back to Fine Art, what goes into a woodcut and handprinting, the dangers of printing big, and we even remember to talk about fishing, including some East Coast saltwater.

Episode 126 - Stephen Duda

Jul 16 2024 91 mins

This week I'm talking with Steve Duda, author of "River Songs." We discuss both his fishing and writing backgrounds, old pick-ups, Writers on the Fly, learning to dance, creating and creativity, dogs, Matthew DeLorme's woodcuts, excerpts from "River Song," and a great piece of advice, "When in Rome, write shit down."

Episode 125 - Jake Crawford

Jul 02 2024 71 mins

This week i'm joined by Jake Crawford of The Steamboaters. We discuss his start to fishing, catching his first, being a river steward, his time in South America and learning languages, steelheaders' "sharing" culture and secretive nature, the wonderful word of bike polo and smashed orbitals, and the thrashing beluga of Oregon.