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Grab some fine malt liquor and laugh along with Joe, Hayden, and the mighty Phil as the fellas bid a warm adieu to the podcast that made you feel the same kind of good as a Wendy’s Baconator the morning after getting the drunkest you’ve been since college.    Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show we: ride our tuggies into the sunset with a final-ish episode.    Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we celebrate opening day by tying every fly in the Wal-Mart trout starter pack on at the same time, ripping a spinner that could battle a salmon shark through the bridge hole, bumping a plastic hell bug in the last resort run, and turn a drinking straw into a limit catcher.   Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we destroy the lives of old people in the name of great smallmouth fishing, purchase tying thread off a guy that likely stole it in an armed robbery, debate whether fish would rather have Uncle Ben’s or Rice-A-Roni jammed in their body cavities, and tell you why you should just buy whatever fly rod you can afford.   Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we travel the globe in Jeff Bezos’ version of the Tuggy sandbox, explain the importance of casting to where the fish are, arm ourselves with knowledge to ward of a plague of smallmouth bass, and cast handmade swimbaits into branches just slightly out of reach. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Trout Vest Aficionado,” we shame a young man for his lack of clinch knot skills, pat Timmy on the back for a super duper shad, discuss the graphic violence in “Old Man And The Sea,” and smash big tunas with the butterfly effect.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we channel our inner Bob Vila to make everything from college loan payments to the finest spearing decoys, better taxidermy choices to weaponized brook trout, and an ice fishing miracle certain to help you lose more fish to unnecessary tangles. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we boop the nose of a bait-stealing otter, tell you how to tie a little deer-hair cocktail umbrella that won’t impress anyone, help you choose knives or chains to deal with a buddy that blew up your honey hole, and spin the perfect mouse pattern for ruining someone’s wedding.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we set up our shanty in the red light district and go fishing for urban legends, discuss toxic fumes in a pop-up that aren’t just the usual farts, watch a victorious angling achievement get turned into public humiliation, and cast ballots for braid or fluorocarbon for beginners. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in our beer-fueled Stupor Bowl, we: explore the twisted economics of using Converse All-Stars as flats boots, recommend the Blue Goo when all else fails, tell you everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about burbot, and explain how fishing revenge might be best served via a half time commercial. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on “Lifestyles of the Sad and Fishless” we: Get airborne with Mike Iaconelli and land in the drama pool, say goodbye to the ugliest jerkbait ever made, discuss the verbal abuse-to-tip ratio on charter trips, and help you make a living worm dunking in Washington.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Failing For Dollars,” we suggest a career move that’ll make you rich off other people’s hardwater idiocy, pose newborn babies with long-dead trout, take a bite out of a half-cocked shark quiz, and make room in your freezer for a few spools of fluorocarbon.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in the Amity Island classifieds, we place an ad for 500 unwanted armoured catfish, sell you on stocked steelhead and make a little dough, buy horrible 90s movies on VHS and feed them to mako sharks, and have a casual encounter with our lack of US Naval history. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Frayed Family Ties,” we: teach your child how to earn an iPod with a knife and a thirst for cod blood, go float-n-fly dunking for suspended fishing licenses, make a case for a knot that apparently only dorks use, and grab a drink at a trouty bar with its own theme song.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Fishin’ With Omicron Wilson,” we: take our mittens deep into Brown Town and wipe the place up, slide over a few rock bars in Mad Max’s fishing sled, make it rain gizzard shad, and answer your burning question about eating delicious trophy breeders.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The week, we close out 2021 with a drunken roundtable about severed ears, vow to give the Tasmanian Devil a crack for truck trout, tell our wives we’re mud shark fishing as a cover for a nudie bar crawl, and regret to inform you it’s time to take that Bass Pro hat out behind the barn.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we celebrate Christmas Eve by telling you the best knock-off spinner to jam in your stocking, where to find bass that are all lips and hips, why Santa is qualified to represent the LBC, and why he’s not qualified to be a successful flats fisherman. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the weigh-in stage, we give Brandon Palanuik a huge fake check just so he’ll hang out with us for a little while, Carl Jocumsen talks about the art of stump grinding, we find the real Batman (but he’s not big enough to keep), and raise a glass to a huge win for the Everglades. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Breaking Bad Knots,” we: take a deep dive into the dam malfunction that shook the fly world, let the air out of a client’s dream trip without them knowing it, explore the sexy past of a now mundane lure, and bait you with Bubble Tape and Razzles.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we head to Canada to learn where leeches come from, confirm that muskies are still “fun as frick” to catch even when they’re too easy, find out that your mullet looks better with perch than bowfin, and get mad at sharks for ruining your rookie season in bonefishing. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we’re passing the savings on to you by: missing two salmon for the price of one Razor Scooter, slashing stockers on “Fourth of July” colored PowerBait, donating scrap lead to the inshore reefs, and jacking party boat prices so the captains can meet government demands.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Skin & Fish Ink,” we get the word “believe” tattooed over the muskie we’ll probably never catch, pick the perfect shade of nail polish for a controversial mouthpiece, cover a dancing bear with a rising brown, and reserve our entire lower back for an homage to Kathy Ireland.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s value menu, get: six silica bead packets with the purchase of any muskie fly, two rods for the price of one when you try dead-lifting a carp, a brand new co-host when you watch one terrible Shia LeBouf movie, and piles of happy kids smelling diesel fumes and offshore glory.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week at the roadside shrimp stand, we’ve got mako steaks so big they’ll kill the guy in the Members Only jacket, fresh walleye infused with the essence of the Pennsylvania Breeze, chivos with a side of duck blind brie cheese, and a castnet we’d trade for basketball cards.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we: crank up the horror by asking what’s in the box from the reaper of rainbow souls, getting dangerously close to a neck-snapping fluke, taunting Big Lou with our superior salmon skills, and feeding chips and salsa to a monster catfish.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With one out and runners on first and third, we: try to distract the batter with a fishing shirt made out of wallpaper from a brothel, and prop spinning full throttle very close to The Situation’s legs, a plate full scaled and fried vengeance, and a bareback man looking for a good deal on flesh eating beetles.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of “It Happened In Florida”, we: find out that K-Swiss sneakers won’t stop stingray barbs, if you ever paid to have a mahi mounted you’re a tourist, the jailbreak slam will be the next big thing on TikTok, and being a dry fly snob dates back over 10,000 years.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “The Joy Of Painting Jigheads,” we: use broad strokes to count the anal rays of a blurry record fish, dab a little nicotine on our flies and fluke rigs, outline all the reasons you shouldn’t sit down while fishing, and visit a bar where the drinks taste like turpentine.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Wicked Tuna FOMO,” we drizzle monkey pee on our dad’s favorite green pumpkin lizard, feed a state-record bonita to something cooler than a state-record bonita, give credit to the Brits for that one good striper lure they invented, and in “otter” news, find out Springsteen loves party boat porgy fishing.Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Locked Up Abroad While Fishing," we: channel our inner Lefty Kreh to prove we’re not drug smugglers, tell you how much drag pressure you need to reel in a pipe bomb, ask you to help Phil Taylor I.D. the only fish he’s ever caught, and partake in a shady Mexican spinnerbait deal. Connect with Joe and MeatEaterJoe on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we bid a warm passive-aggressive goodbye to our beloved co-host Miles Nolte. Brad Leone caters the farewell party with gas station fugu and spicy crab tots, plus, we sell you on flies made of duct tape and go on a quest for elusive “brown snakeheads” (which is not a euphemism for turds).  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s episode of "Fishing Cabin Confessions," we: remind you to smash the barb on your heel before sticking your foot in your mouth, explain why religious figures turn into sailors when they step onto fishing boats, hallucinate baby tarpon in the rocky mountains, and appreciate the finer points of a fly named after a misdemeanor.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s box of stale Lucky Charms, we dig up the issues I have with my father dooming most fishing trips, send in a proof of purchase for some souvenir water, stretch the crumbs to get one more bowl full of walleye, and put the hex on the miserable human that robs children of hatchery mutants.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The week on “E.R. For Eel Trappers,” we: stitch up a swimmer that yelled “shark” in Detroit, tell you how buying oranges is the same as going to medical school, threaten to draw blood over insane streams laws in Utah, and pass out at the site of Miles Nolte’s uncle.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, campers, join us for a battery-powered scavenger hunt in blue ribbon trout water, put the Gameboy down long enough to catch a record Chinook, take a course on shooting fish photos that won’t make you look like a psychopath, and remember to knock on the outhouse door before entering. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in the Bent Protection Program: Frank Crescitelli explains why he can never show his face in Manhattan, a listener tells you which bar to hide out in Upstate when things get tense, Joe Demalderis gives you the only three knots you need to survive life underground, and Cermele defends his love of the East Coast . . . again.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Bent first birthday fishing extravaganza, we: peek behind the curtain on Bob the Garbageman’s intimate home life, learn how the cheapskates won big at this year’s industry fishing trade show, get creepy on a secluded Massachusetts island while striper fishing, and finally reveal the dietary guilty pleasure that Miles and Joe share with their favorite gamefish.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in “Boat Shopper For Broke People,” we: jump on the Night Hawk with Brad Leone to fill burlap sacks with bluefish, appease the 5,000 fans making sure we know sand boxes will float, get our septums pierced with a worm blower, and search for a long lost hippy. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we: dig through our ancient first aid kit to find a Band Aid and a raise for an underpaid shark jumper, use good judgement to stop a walleye angler from hemorrhaging over a pike, remove foreign objects from the brain of Tom Rosenbauer, and give a dirty river a clean bill of sturgeon health.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on "Intervention For Crank Addicts," we: put nail polish on our smallie candies before popping them, try to figure out what an internet angling celebrity’s been smoking, suffer through the trauma of docking and dining, and discover that Tylenol isn’t getting anyone tweaked on fish news.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on "Bad News Bass," we: tell you where to find the last living fish in the U.S., take a venomous catfish spine to the naughty bits, suffer the bite of a fake European fish on the other naughty bits, and hate ourselves for not paying more attention at night school.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At this week’s cookout we: chew the bluefish fat with Brad Leone, boost our nitrates to life-threatening levels to catch more channel cats, bob for largemouths in red gravy, and roast up some mystery tuna.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on "Financial Advice For. . ." we: sell everything we have in rubber worms to buy more Flex Seal, kickstart our fly business with a dollar on a string, dump our time share at a glorified pay lake, and invest in the future of coral reefs. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Paranormal Panfishing we: use our alpha brain waves to pull Bigfoot out of the riprap, conduct a Loch Ness-style hunt for a mythical smallmouth, set our copper-protected spring bulbs to kill mode, and explore a black hole for 30 to 40 seconds before deciding we’ve seen worse places.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Home Shopping for Hook Sharpeners, we've got: lawn chairs you won’t find in any fly shop, a doorbell that lets eels get on with their lives, the perfect pocket accessories for your favorite jean jacket, and a spotted fish you can thank the French for discovering.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, at the bottom of the bait freezer, we’ve got: half-priced shrimp soaked in ant poison, bloodworms in need of a weed detox, grasshoppers that will still work OK if you just pay attention to your butt, and 393 extra perch harvested by a Michigan poacher that probably doesn’t care if you hate him.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we ponder the true meaning of Memorial Day with an influencer’s ode to the song "Oh No," a sinking bar that probably won’t be crowded this weekend, the technology that may finally let you take your pet fish for a walk, and some sagely wisdom about true service and the healing power of canoes.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we flip some float switches by indicating more strikes against Tenkara, dip into the secret lives of half-caffeinated fly shop workers, slip a wedding ring around a mullet and pray it doesn’t get mowed by a trevally, and bob around in a sea of stupid comments about the Fonz.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s fireside chat: We share a “cuppa tea” with the poet laureate of Craig’s List as he explains the golden trout-Jesus connection, appeases the Bahamian government with a real fast canoe, and salutes the most fish-taggingest sumbitch in Virginia.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Lifestyles of the Rich and Non-Outdoorsy: We guide a celebrity through millions of acres of land he’s not sure if he owns, question our broker about stock in Minnesota walleyes, have our life coach explain that fish don’t actually exist, and boost our catch portfolio by offsetting our swing to landing ratio. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Mythbusters for mackerel jiggers: We take the vegan out of “Seaspricacy” to enhance the flavor of the truth, learn how to ruin a Canadian’s dinner with the first rule of boating, get our calves in shape by skipping every leg day and just going catfishing, and throw darts at a bunch of species just to find out they’ll stick in every single one of them.  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on our sweet demo tape: We swallow a big Hex bug while we’re coming through the pass, fail to secure permits to bring a live tiger to the fishing expo, grab a tuna by the tail and hang on for 9 whole hours, and make sarcastic comments to the customs agent rifling through our tackle bag.Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s ode to striper snipers: A French guy gets his ass beat by Montauk’s finest nor’easter, our correspondent reviews a bar where your grandma is KO’ing surfcasting rowdies, we chunk 200 pounds of whale vomit hoping to get a nibble from investors, and call off the search for the most wanted meth head at the Bass Pro Shop. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we make Billy’s Christmas extra special by getting him a canoe that definitely might float, a set of binos and a safari vest for a bird watching adventure with more fish than eagles, a fire extinguisher that will kill 25 Cohos in one blast, and lure from Jersey that tried to give the Jitterbug a schoolyard beatdown. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Back to the Future fishing podcast, we revisit the 80s to chase northern pike in nuthugger shorts, provide tips for saving your pager from an accidental dunking, fish for hotdogs in a truck stop parking lot, and breakdown a lure (and punk record) that changed the way we mosh while throwing swimbaits forever. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on "Name That Smell," we’ve got: severed feet on the rocks of the Pacific Northwest, a Glade Plug-in prototype combining human waste and sweet Hawaiian salt air, a musty skin mount that captures predators doing the big dirty, and an eau de tyranny and conspiracy in the world of As-Seen-On-TV bass fishing. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s all-inclusive resort package: enjoy a continental breakfast featuring threatened Gulf sturgeon pickled in fish tears, take a spinning class that will make fly anglers question your morals, have your hair braided just in time to ruin your fifth grade reputation, and cap off the day with a relaxing sea cucumber colonic.  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Fish-Story Science Theater, Mike Iaconelli dissects vintage lingerie to learn what turns bass on, we prove Montana anglers could benefit from being a bit more metal, we jackhammer fish eggs to see if any stick to the moon, and observe the natural behavior of buffalo soldiers and Senko Rastas.  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the free road map to angling attractions: Visit the tool shed where Javier the Russian apparently filleted two world-record stripers, drop by the Ye Olde Bait Foundry to watch internet geniuses craft an overnight sensation, stand on the site of the Great Asshat Lake Trout Massacre of 2021, and pop into the gift shop to buy lures planted by you, but harvested by someone else. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s fish police blotter: We question Wooderson about mind-altering tip-up tactics, investigate how missing lunch money ended up in the back of a toad brown’s throat, ask for the public’s help locating an arapaima angler, and stake out the tarpon godfather to grab intel on his secrets to silver king success. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “The Reel World: Fond Du Lac,” the Puck stops here: we get serious about caviar, Captain Abbie Schuster riles the locals with a beer bomb, we hook a gift horse right in your face, and leave you with recipes for Davenport sole, Peorian hake, and other fish that don’t actually exist. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this chapter of “GWAR and Peace,” we ridicule people that leave the plastic wrap on their rod grips, make a Dolomite-smallmouth connection that short circuits Mandy Uhrich, two-step our way to sight fishing failure, and ring in Valentine’s Day with an X-rated soiree in the marlin scene. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on life hacks for lure refurbishers: Learn to thwart uncontrollable vomiting with lump charcoal, save a poodle from the clutches of a raging walleye psychopath, chop wood in the Amazon after putting down a twelver of Brahma, and fool a 50-inch muskie with Radio Shack ingenuity. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s installment of your grandpa’s terrible fish camp jokes: a priest, an internet savant, and a bass fishing legend walk into a hippo-infested river to count the invasive species. Plus, soiled Wrangler jeans and electric fillet knives infused with the power of the holy smoke. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week at the water hazard: two kids swing big for walleye but drown in teenage lies; after failing to chip away at his waist line, an angler gives up some cheap goods; Miles investigates robots that can do anything from deep driving lion fish to building condos on Mars; and Riverhorse putts for birdie to clear the un-fairway of rich mulligans in motorized carts. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s TED Talk for taimen trollers, Mike Iaconelli explains that you’ll catch more fish if you cast in the right place, Tom Rosenbauer discusses why asking about his favorite fly is so junior varsity, and Hilary Hutcheson presents corporate urination strategies for team-building angling exercises. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s off-menu special, we’ve got blue-ribbon rainbow trout crusted in Miracle Grow, a poultry dish that fish rarely swallow, speckled trout belly soaked in secret Cajun ingenuity sauce, and a shredded pork leg slathered in shark DNA that won’t likely stop you from being killed by a great white. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, kick off your new year by slapping mad brown hogs in the face with sheet foam, learn what Ernest Schwiebert usually ordered at Arby’s, hear the gripping story of how we almost lost a Spice Girl to buttery, decadent swordfish, and get rich by carving wooden pike to sell to Midwest soccer moms outside the Home Goods. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pour an egg nog, nuzzle up to a loved one, and prepare for the airing of grievances in this star-studded holiday event of the century. Join us as we sing a duet with a soulless walleye killer, give back to those struggling with steelhead addiction by helping them find their tying scissors, tell a tale of jolly St. Nick’s inability to scratch out a few largemouths, feed bits of tinsel to crappies and perch in the name of habitat restoration, and so much more! Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this self-help course for salmon swingers, learn to patch relationships with boiled shrimp, boost your confidence by hunting the world’s biggest whitefish, meditate on a deadly hard bait made by a guy named Mud, and cope with the immense shame that comes with letting a good friend fondle your personal-best northern pike. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Fish Head Talk Soup, Mandy Uhrich spills the beans on Donkey Sauce, Miles reviews a book about an otherwise upstanding human ditching his family for bonefish, we compare a Pantara fan to Axel Rose, and Joe tells you the possibly, maybe, a little bit true history of a mostly useless fly with a somewhat offensive name. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on This Old Bait House, we’ll explain why you need to raid grandpa’s tackle box for bass glory, hang pictures of a quaint old bar that serves questionable chili, open a restaurant that offers guests a dark, cold, cramped dining experience, and piece together a damn good dam report that may result in fewer steelhead getting pureed. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Fish By Numbers, we throw shade on a man covered in salmon sperm, highlight bass legend Oliver Ngy’s hatred of billfish, calm the panic of foreign seafood consumers, add chunks of color to a miserable striper report, and bathe a terrible Black Friday bargain in soft blue light. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Top Chef for Fillet O’ Fish fryer jockeys, Hilary Hutcheson gives away her secret for keeping dry flies oh so fresh, Lance V reveals the IG filter from which all his power derives, Miles laments how the Aloha spirit has devolved into surf casters hucking pyramid sinkers at paddleboard yogis, and Joe explains why he prefers his Tacatos infused with a nice wiener essence. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Wild America for wet fly dapplers, we observe a gentle giant establishing dominance over a pack of jetty rats, get lost in an incoherent word forest spewed by the late Paul Maclean, go on an expedition to find a barramundi that pays off mortgage loans, and tell you how to survive with only the stolen goods you can fit in a JanSport backpack. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week at Hot Topic for high hookers, we’re scalping tickets to the Monsters of Thailand Festival, handing out backstage passes to get hammered with Tom Rosenbauer, riding the lightning in the striper storm of the century, and turning the mercury levels up to 11. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on our not-so-special Halloween Special, get hip to a bass secret so venomous it might kill you, score a good deal on waders by making them smell like fear, scare the kids with a bedtime story so horrific you’ll never have to spend money on another Boogie Board, and learn the five trout flies worth losing an eye. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Sally Jesse for center-pinners, we find out why your dad’s not impressed with your surfcasting skills, discover a pike fly you can tie drunk and fish hungover, learn how Mr. Bean can enhance your angling street cred, and discuss when it’s appropriate to dial 911 for a species ID. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy for gut hookers, learn how to keep your striper action from going flaccid, survive the brass knuckle blows you’re sure to take if you Spey cast in New York, kick your dip habit by swindling innocent people, and catch more jacks by slathering your jigs in antibiotics. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the $10,000 Pyramid Sinker, earn coupons for super-sizing that McShark sandwich at Euro McDonald’s, finally figure out how to choose the perfect coke spoon for lake trout, discover why horses are dying for your big bass fantasies, and learn tips for cleaning black mold out of your dream boat. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s match game for mullet soakers, we learn the best position for making tainted love on a drift boat, examine coping mechanisms for carp death across the pond, confirm that Canadians want to throw boiling hot Tim Horton’s coffee in the face of every American, and celebrate the fact that at least one person in Australia likes us. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Cliff’s Notes for catfishermen, we flail our way to anaphylactic shock, learn about Tik Tok's secret plan to destroy our fisheries, get schooled on vigilante street justice in the river parking lots of Montana, explore why a Gorilla Pod is your most important piece of tackle, and say farewell to a striper legend with a skeptical send off. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this intro course to spooning, we don our Power Gloves for a round of Nintendo commercial trawling, Steve Rinella drops by to sell you a gently used boat, a very fishy lady serves walleye glazed with human feces to unsuspecting guests, and we try to give hope to Western steelheaders but fail miserably. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the short bus to fishing glory, you'll get a hot tip on keeping your dry flies high as a kite with budget white powder, a warning that if you're not careful muskies will turn you into a mediocre writer, a secret about using six dirty-ass sinkers to have the best summer ever, and a history lesson about a time when grenades were fun for the whole family. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this installment of pro tips for low lifes, you'll learn why Roland Martin DVDs are the next Bitcoin, the scientific name for that awkward little nubbin on a catfish's back, why Connecticut is the new Saskatchewan for pike fishing, and how much effort it takes to get on a semi-pro-staff. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of Reading Rainbow for degenerate anglers teaches you why fish scales are going to make you the most eco-friendly partier at the rave, how to justify your love for a ridiculous two-dollar lure, who would rather be crushed under a mobile home than miss another sailfish bite, and why you have much more to celebrate this weekend than your cousin's kid's 4th birthday. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn how to offend anglers from Pittsburgh, find out why you don’t commission a fish mount while dropping acid, how Go-Gurt can save giant trevallies, and where shady people in sunny places go to get hammered. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this inaugural episode of Bent, find out why everyone is laughing at your trout vest, how to make an easy million dollars betting on sharks, why the coronavirus is a win for surf casters, and if the next global pandemic will come from fish. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEaterJoe and Miles on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.