Trout’s Spotlight: Cody Hoeckelberg
Author: Will Rice

Casting for Recovery is another reason we volunteer.

Casting for Recovery is another reason we volunteer.

Photo: Cameron Miller
Trout’s Fly Fishing was able to talk spey casting with Andrew Bennett from Deneki Outdoors. Deneki owns and operates fly fishing lodges in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Bahamas. Here's a taste:
"A couple of years ago I spent some time at Alaska West with my buddy Dec Hogan. At that point I had a good amount of spey fishing under my belt - probably a couple hundred days, fishing with some of the better casters in the Northwest. I asked him to have a look at my casting and tell me what he thought - expecting, of course, some finer points from the Master. His incredibly technical bit of advice? 'Dude, you need to slow down.'"
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Photo: Kat Yarbrough
Geoff Mueller is the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman Magazine and currently senior editor at The Drake Magazine and a contributing editor at Angling Trade Magazine. A few weeks back Trout's Fly Fishing was lucky enough to recruit Geoff as an assistant burger flipper for our Customer Appreciation Day. If you didn't get a chance to catch up with him at our event you are in luck - we were able to spend a few minutes with Geoff after the grill cooled down to get the low-down on Abel gear, toxic margaritas, the High Park Fire, G4 Pro Waders, and plans for permit in October.

(Trout's Fly Fishing's very own Rick Mikesell with a LA red - photo by Alex Landeen)
Phenom - [fee-nom, fi-nom] noun; Slang - a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy. Trout's Fly Fishing has been a big fan of Alex Landeen's work for a few years now.