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Troutbitten

by Domenick Swentosky

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Wader Care and Wader Repair

October 25, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

This podcast is all about about your waders — wader care and wader repair. You might think that if you take care of your waders, they’ll last forever, but that's surely not true. My son Aiden asked to loan a pair of my old waders to a…
Everything About The Landing Net

October 18, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

This one is all about fishing nets. We cover net types and sizes, handle length, bag depth and hoop width. We also discuss how each of us carries the net and how we access it quickly. Because if all of this is not well thought out…
Doing the Opposite

October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

My friends are here with me to begin season twenty-one with a conversation about doing the opposite. Because if you’re struggling out there on the water, if the net hasn’t been wet in a while and the trout seem to disagree with everything…
Fighting Big Fish #7 -- Everything All At Once

September 6, 2026 · 46 min

For this season finale of our skills series on fighting fish we take questions and comments from the podcast audience. We cover the following: -- Fighting and landing big trout in small streams. -- Fighting trout in shallow water, and…
Fighting Big Fish #6 - The Last Ten Feet, and In the Net

August 30, 2026 · 51 min

This podcast is all about the the end of the fight. Everything we’ve walked through in the previous episodes gets you to the point where the fish is within range and just about ready for the scoop. A lot can go wrong at the end of a fight…

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Fighting Big Fish #5 - Side Pressure!

August 23, 2026 · 58 min

Side pressure puts real leverage on a fish. It's where control begins and power originates. All the other skills before this one set us up to maximize side pressure, with the right angles and a great plan for landing the trout of a…
Fighting Big Fish #4 -- Planning, Positioning and The Fighting Stance

August 16, 2026 · 39 min

Landing a good trout is more about planning, quick thinking and good technique than luck. And in this episode, we talk about being ready for a big fish. With a little forethought and preparation, with even slight adjustments to body…
Fighting Big Fish #3 -- Fighting Them Fast, The Tug-of-War and Knowing the Strength of Your Tools

August 9, 2026 · 51 min

This third part of our Troutbitten Skills Series is all about the guiding principle of fighting fish fast. We talk about how this mindset guides our decisions and our movements for all the other skills. Because we want to fight trout fast…
Fighting Big Fish #2 - Where to Fight Them

August 2, 2026 · 50 min

Fighting trout in a river, creek or stream is all about the currents. So for this episode of our seven part skills series on fighting big fish, we talk about fighting fish upstream, downstream or across. What are the advantages and…
Fighting Big Fish #1 - The Hooks Set and What Comes First

July 26, 2026 · 57 min

For Season 20 of the Troutbitten Podcast, we have seven episodes lined up for a Skills Series that's all about how to land the biggest fish of your life. Because, when you do hook the big one — that one you’ve been waiting for — a Whiskey…
Freewheelin' - Out of Town Guides, Wet Flies, Stocking Over Wilds . . . and More

June 28, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

In this Season 19 finale of the Troutbitten Podcast, we tackle a grab bag of topics. We call these episodes the Freewheelin' Troutbitten. This one was unintentional. We had plans to cover a topic of fishing with friends vs fishing solo…
The Airing of Grievances -- Five

June 21, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

We’re here for our fifth annual Airing of Grievances episode. We do this every June, at the end of the spring seasons of the podcast. We do it to have some fun, and we do it because it’s helpful to call out the bad things and try to make…

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About the show

Life on the water. Troutbitten is a deep dive into fly fishing for wild trout in wild places. Author and guide, Domenick Swentosky, shares stories, tips, tactics and conversations with friends about fly fishing through the woods and water. Explore more. Fish hard. And discover fly fishing at Troutbitten.com — an extensive resource with 1500+ articles about trout, friends, family and the river.