Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 43 min · 12 segments
I've known Tom a long time. He was an enthusiastic first participant in my experiment of fishing films and believed in the mission. Mini may not realize that he was a well respected fishing guide in…
Jamie HowardHost
Well, before all these lessons were learned, you were trying to make a living just floating down the river out west.
Drift boat fishing guiding for western trout was not always a thing the way it is now.
What was it like in the very earliest days? I mean, it's hard to think of yourself like an old man, but what was it like to be like sort of down tracks?
It is funny to think about that because I still consider myself like the youngest one around.
I started out going to Yellowstone National Park when I was in college for summer and
I didn't know what to expect out there, but it was just going to be a summer job.
But what I found was something that really changed my life almost instantaneously.
And I wanted I wanted some of it, you know, and you were just basically cut loose in Yellowstone National Park to hike and backpack and camp and do whatever you wanted to.
The following year, I decided that I was going to do something more extreme than Yellowstone.
Well, before all these lessons were learned, you were trying to make a living just floating down the river out west.
Drift boat fishing guiding for western trout was not always a thing the way it is now.
What was it like in the very earliest days? I mean, it's hard to think of yourself like an old man, but what was it like to be like sort of down tracks?
It is funny to think about that because I still consider myself like the youngest one around.
I started out going to Yellowstone National Park when I was in college for summer and
I didn't know what to expect out there, but it was just going to be a summer job.
But what I found was something that really changed my life almost instantaneously.
And I wanted I wanted some of it, you know, and you were just basically cut loose in Yellowstone National Park to hike and backpack and camp and do whatever you wanted to.
The following year, I decided that I was going to do something more extreme than Yellowstone.
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