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3RM Ep. 13 - Dan Myers: Hunt Fish PNW
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In this episode of the 3 Rivers Marine Podcast, we welcome Dan Meyers to the studio. Throughout the episode we learn about life experiences that makes Dan who he is, how they crafted his passions, and how he catches fish consistently in some of the most crowded waters in Washington State, Area 10.
Hi, you're listening to the Three Reverse Marine Podcast, a show that brings anglers and mariners down-to-earth advice that helps on and off the water. I'm Anthony Marisi, a fishing rep born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I'm sitting down with the biggest names in fishing and boating to make your next adventure easier, safer, and more exciting. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Three Rivers Marine Podcast. I'm the host Anthony as always, and in studio today we have Captain Dan Myers with us. And we're going to talk a little bit about uh who he is, where he fishes, what he likes to fish, and then uh, you know, Dan's just a really good dude. So we're gonna have him tell us a little bit about how he's helping anglers and others in the community, and you know, that's definitely kind of a core pillar of who he is. So we're gonna spend a little bit of time investigating that. Um so thanks for being here today. Yeah, thanks for inviting me. Um you know, I I got to know you a little bit more recently, right? And uh, you know, it's like Dan, we're gonna be friends, and there's like you you don't have a choice. And um so that's been going well. But you know, tell the listeners a little bit about, you know, like where you're from, where you, you know, where you like to fish, what you grew up fishing, that kind of stuff, so they can get to know you a little better too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I grew up in a small town just south of here, Eatonville. Uh my grandfather bought a fishing resort back in the late 40s and 50s, uh, and it was named Henley's Silver Lake. I'm sure a lot of your listeners know that that place. Um, I grew up there. We raised uh trout, uh German browns and rainbows. Nice. Um, and then we would release them for opening day around like about about a week before opening day. Um and so I got to see how customer service was uh or what how important customer service is. Uh I learned a lot about fishing, uh freshwater fishing and and uh all that good stuff that uh and that goes along with uh growing up on a lake. Um and so just learning what I or just what I was taught by my grandfather about um treating customers and I implement that in in my today's charter business.
SPEAKER_01So grew up fishing lots of freshwater, you know. When did you start fishing the salt? Because like primarily that's what you're doing now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So I grew up uh fishing the the freshwaters, uh Little Michelle River and all that. Um I fast forward, I joined the Marine Corps, I got out of the Marine Corps, um, and I was about 24, 25, uh is uh when I started fishing the Puget Sound on my own. Um before then was all fresh water. I just didn't have the time. I had two kids I was raising. Um, and so fresh water came kind of later on in my life. But I just did it by going out to the dock and started out mooching, you know, the flounders and all that, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, drop it down, see what you catch.
SPEAKER_02And two years, three years, nothing, nothing. And so finally I bought a little rowboat.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02A little rowboat, and I'm out there fishing by myself, learning on my own. I'd go to the stores, uh, local tackle stores, buy things I didn't need, and didn't work. So nothing's changed now, you know. I got to count earlier, you know. I was like, oh, all right. And and so area 11 is where I grew up saltwater fishing and honed in everything that I know today. Uh Area 11 and 13 are are my my home my babies, my home ports. Yeah, all right. Area 13 guy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yep, just south of the Narrows Bridge. I know, yeah. I go down there a little bit, not that much, but it's definitely a spot I want to kind of learn a little bit more about. And, you know, I mean, sometimes it's nice to just go put the boat in the water and be able to go fishing, you know. And it's open most like year round unless there's some kind of paperwork issue.
SPEAKER_02Two two pole endorsement. Yeah. Um, if you've got that, great the the scenery down there, the islands.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. Is absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, absolutely. You know, and it's not like known for being the best place to go, like catch a whole bunch of fish, but like it's got to stay. You can go down there and do really well for yourself. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00And also, like, if you go down there a lot and you learn it, like just like you know, yeah. I'll get you on the boat.
SPEAKER_01All right, we'll go. Uh, you know, I think like that area in particular is one where you know, like that kind of 90-10 rule or whatever really comes into play, right? You know, 10% of the guys are catching 90% of the fish in 13. That's correct. They're not they're not just everywhere. You gotta figure that one out. So I'll get the inside track. No big deal. Um so area 11, area 13 are kind of your your spots um that you like. Are you doing a lot of your tartar business in 11 and 13 or are you further north? Or like where do you, you know?
SPEAKER_02I mainly run area 10. Okay. Um matter of fact, last year was 100% area 10.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So um I it was just easier to fish. Yeah. My clients were coming in around that area, so it made it easy for them.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Yeah, and Area 10. I mean, I I'm assuming most of the listeners know, but if you don't, Area 10 is that kind of like Seattle proper uh marine area. So, you know, it includes Elliott Bay technically, even though there's sometimes different rules there, but basically goes from the north end of Ashon all the way up to essentially Edmonds. There's you know, pay attention because sometimes if you're fishing up there, they'll get you because you went over the line. But like more or less that's where it is.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Um it's my you know, for me, that's that's home water for me, right? Like area 10, I'm I'm in that. Vast majority of the time I love it. I think it's a fantastic area to fish. So we have that in common. There's lots of fish. There is, yeah. It's a it I mean, good there's just good structure in there. There's lots of good places, and even if it's crowded, like you know, there's not just like one spot that kind of gets all the fish in there. You know, I mean, like Jeff Head obviously gets hammered pretty good because it's kind of the most obvious one, but like my goodness, there's so many spots to go and grind it out in 10 if you need to, and like get away from it.
SPEAKER_02And when in doubt, if you're finding yourself grinding in 10, get to the shipping lanes and just grind it out there. That's what I have found over the years of fish in Area 10. Is if you're if you're finding yourself where were these fish, get out in the shipping lanes and start start doing your zigzags.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, like there's there's a lot of times you can be hitting fish out in five, six, seven hundred feet of water out there. Absolutely. They're they're there, they're just they're cruising. So yeah, definitely. Um that's good advice.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01That yellow, that yellow buoy can sometimes put out some numbers for you, and you're kind of like, I don't know why they're here right now, but like they are. We're traveling. Um, doing their thing. So yeah, that's good. Um you have a new boat this year. Oh boy, do I. I'm really excited. Yeah, you you joined the the duckworth family. So welcome, welcome to that as well. I also have a duckworth as we you know, we've talked about that before. But Dan's got a cooler duckworth. Dan has a really sweet black, yeah, 30 offshore XL kitted out, ready to go.
SPEAKER_02It's ready, it's ready, absolutely ready.
SPEAKER_01Um I'd be coming down here to do stuff and I see it, and I'm like, oh man, that thing's just getting better and better every time I drive down here.
SPEAKER_02And I do love the two-tone on it. That that gray on the bottom. Yeah, um, I think that's a really nice touch. Uh just going over the boat and and getting the feel for her is it's something that uh I didn't know was a big deal until I started driving this boat. Oh yeah, it's it's a different beast from where I came from, right? Two different, way, way different. Um my clients are gonna be a lot happier, certainly, more comfortable. Um, and comfortability, you know, you got your your full head uh on the on the on the in the cockpit. There's so much room out there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Duckworth is the you know bentley of fishing boats. Like it's it they're comfortable. They're you know, they're everything is very well done. The fit and finish on all of them is just perfect. Yep, it is. It's right where you want it to be. It's smooth, it's quiet, it's comfortable. They're not tender the way they design all the running surfaces. Like, you know, they they run over rough water good, they run in smooth water great, they turn well, they don't throw you around, they don't lean, you know. Somebody's somebody on your boat's gonna catch some gigantic king this year, and everybody's gonna go to the side and look, and you're not like, oh man, back up, back up, back up. You know, that boat's like, yeah, okay, well, we have 10 people on the rail and whatever.
SPEAKER_02Um that's one thing I've noticed about my duckworth. It's super quiet.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can close the door on that thing and have the engines running and run them like basically wide open, and you're just kind of having a conversation. You're like, what? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And so that and then the turning on her. She I opened our window, my uh uh, my window, and I'm turning this boat to see because I want to know what the limits are. Yeah, and it felt like I could almost touch the water, and it felt like a solid platform.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's no problem. You know, the way they do that running surface and the reverse times and stuff on it is like, you know, they just they roll and then they like get on a rail. They're like roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, and then they just stop. Yep. And you're like, okay, that's exactly I am locked in right here. It's not sliding, it's not spilling out, you're not cavitating, it's just like lock and now you're just on a rail and you're in your turn. It's you know, and I've been in a lot of boats, and there isn't another one that has that same kind of like just lock in and you're there. Yeah, pretty cool. It's a very cool boat. Did you do 300s on that one? Two three fifties. 350s. Yeah. So you went with the XTOs. Mm-hmm. Nice. Pretty, pretty excited, right? Yeah, that's that's the right way to go. That's the the uh it's just perfect. Yeah, yeah, well done. Um so yeah, charter captain, brand new boat this year, gonna be awesome. All dialed in. He's already dialed in on the fisheries, and now you know, yeah. The boat just makes it that much better. Yeah. Um we're looking towards first fishery you're gonna participate in it's gonna be blackmouth. That's correct. April 1st. April one. So yeah, we're less than a month out from blackmouth. Yep. What are you what's what's what's going on day one? What are you what are you starting with? Because you came in here and you were buying a bunch more line because you already did your leader rolls, they're all done.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm not a I don't hold secrets, so what's what I'm dropping down is gonna be two colors of squid.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02You're going with your green and your white.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_02Um, and I'm gonna be tipping those with my proprietary secret sauce, which is just brined herring strips. But they're brining right now. Oh, you're you're they're in salt right now. And then once I get a couple more days in the refrigerator, I'm gonna pull them out and I'm gonna put them in a vacuum sealer, a chamber sealer. And I'll fish those. I've made enough. I made 15 batches, so I'm good till you'll have the whole seal. About June, July. Okay. Um, but and then I add a little bit of uh UV brightener to those strips. Yep. Um, and so they'll be ready to rock and roll.
SPEAKER_01Nice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, April 1st.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I'm such a chove guy for the black mouth. I had loved Chovies. Yeah, it's not it's not like the most practical of like charter boat deals when you're like, you know, just trying to turn and burn. But like, you know. I like the chove.
SPEAKER_02No, I get it. I I get it. I you know, if I can get if I can get two fish per strip, I'm gonna I'm gonna make a little bit of money, right? And make my herring go a little bit more. So that's why they're burning so early.
SPEAKER_01I know, no, I like it. And that's a good way. I mean, like, you know, it locks in a lot of that kind of like scent trail of those fish lock in on and stuff like that, you know, and it's not falling off. And uh, you know, that like in the Puget sound, it's really difficult to beat a green flasher and a white Hoochie. And it is like it's it's amazing how like that has just saved the day for me so many times. And like, you know, sometimes I really want a plug, sometimes they really want a green label herring, sometimes they want this, that, or the other, and you can just be, you know, him when you get back to the dock because you did something different.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But like the amount of times when you're out there and I was like, man, this worked really good yesterday, and I have not bought a bite all day. Yeah. And you put on a green flasher and a white hoochie, and you start towing it around, and you're hooked up in 10 minutes. It's just you're like, okay.
SPEAKER_02I, you know, I got super excited when Pro Troll dropped their new their new Go bananas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's a good looking flasher.
SPEAKER_02It is. I'm really excited to use that this year. Um the green and reds. Yep. Uh are just stable.
SPEAKER_01That morning mist one is a good one. The you know that con man now. Oh, yeah, the con man. I like that one. You know, I was I was you know putting the tape on it before, so now I can just, you know. Gigabyte. Have them have them right from the bag ready to go. I'm a deal. I'm a deal.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then you gotta go with the the tried and true, the purple hornet. Yep. So those are the two flashers I'm gonna be running that morning. Um, I'm gonna start out with uh I don't even know how many inches. It goes from the my mid chest down to my just below my my kneecap on length. If I'm not doing anything there, if it's not producing fast enough for me, then I might I might um lengthen it a little bit, get a get a longer leader. Um but yeah, I'm super excited to be running those. Yeah, that's a good one. That's gonna be on my boat April 1st.
SPEAKER_01Yep. So you have a deal with uh, you know, part of being a good guy is helping others. Yeah. Pro Troll and you are working together on getting some people fed. Tell us about that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so man, uh, you know, I uh my food bank, my local food bank is very near and dear to my heart. Um I think putting food in people's bellies is very important and it should be important to everybody, especially if they're struggling and they need that food, right? And so how can I help out? Um Pro Troll uh man, get hooked me up with some flashers and stickers. Uh the the rare, I think it's a rare Pro Trol sticker. I've never seen one. I've always wanted one. I never told anybody, but when it showed up, I was like, oh, this is all right. This is too good for me to hoard. I'm gonna keep one for myself, but I'm gonna donate one. Um so if you can donate 250 bucks, you'll get four flashers, the rare the rare Pro Troll sticker. Um, and I'll even donate, throw in a couple t-shirts um with my company's logo on. Um, and then yeah, I also do I donate my charters as well for if you don't if people will go to the food bank and donate a certain amount, I'll take you fishing. And that's ongoing. Yeah. Um, and that's how dire our food banks. I'm assuming all food banks are like this. My local food bank just needs the money. Um, they can spend it more why they spend it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they they know what they need and stuff, and we have we have a whole bunch of like this already or whatever you need, and then like, but you're really short on a lot of that stuff. You know, I have um one of my mom's best friend does a lot of that work and specifically with the food banks. And so like when we go on hikes and stuff, it's it was really interesting. You know, when I was a kid, we'd go and get canned food or something to help out at the you know at the grocery store, and you're like, okay, that's great, but a lot of the stuff that like food banks really need isn't necessarily like canned corn. It's a lot of the other staples for stuff that like you know, when you're when you're down, like life requires a lot more than cream corn, you know. I've learned diapers. Yeah, diapers, that type of stuff. It's huge. It's really expensive too. So yeah, it is. So yeah, a lot of the times that's what it is, just you know. A lot of like a lot of times, like just when you're trying to help out, sometimes money is just the best thing to do, you know. Like, and it's and you feel you always feel bad, like when you're the one asking for it to be like, you know, like I appreciate it, but like cash would really be the best.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, not a lot of people know this, but back in the day um growing up, um uh I had a child at a young age, and I was on uh food stamps and WIC and the whole nine. And even though I was working three jobs to I was working early morning, taking the bus down, do my mid job, and then I would work all throughout the night at UPS sorting packages. Um, and so I remember going into the store one day and um writing a check for I don't know, formula. There was a couple cans of formula and some milk. Um and she back then, you know, when you wrote a check, they had to verify it, right? So she took the check. Well, I got paid, it just didn't show up in my account, and they verified it, said, Well, you have no money in your account. So I stood there beat red, so embarrassed. They took all the food away that I needed, even though I had money in my account. And that experience is driving me today, and it will always that's why it's so important to me. Um, that our food banks are just supported where people can show up, and if they need whatever, they get whatever. Um so yeah, that's why I do that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's a great cause, guys.
SPEAKER_02Like help out, yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_01And if you need something out of the deal, this is a great opportunity. And also you get you get you get flashers and I mean four four Pro Trolls and a cool sticker, two t-shirts, and two t-shirts? I mean, basically, like you're almost there anyway.
SPEAKER_02And it's a 501c3. Yeah, so you get to write that off against your taxes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, that's and so it's that's that's good a pro troll to be like, hey, you know, like let's let's let's do it. Yeah. So it's that's every everybody should help out with that one.
SPEAKER_02100 and that goes for the charters. Just remember, if you want to become a better fisherman, you know, and you're out there and you want to know and you want to go with me, right? Donate to the food bank the certain amount. Um I'll take you out fishing for up to four hours. It's a five, it's a 501c3, so they you get to write it off right against your taxes, and you get to learn how to what I'm doing out there to put fish in the boat. Yeah. It's a win-win. Yeah, that's that's awfully nice here. So I get more experience. That's what I'm getting out of this. I'm getting the experience um as a as a as a captain. And the more experience I have out there, the better I'll be in the long run. Yeah. Definitely.
SPEAKER_01Makes sense to me. Do you do, you know, kind of switching gears a little bit? Okay. Um, are you gonna do any other fisheries or are you strictly gonna do salmon turters?
SPEAKER_02Um I plan on getting into the bottom fish. Okay. Uh, but not this year. I've got some personal stuff that we're just tackling right now, and once I get through all of that, bottom fish will be on my radar for next year. Okay. Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That link cod fishery is a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. I like that one a lot. I get, I get, I'm already excited for me. Um, yeah, that's so bottom fish next year, salmon this year. You're gonna do blackmouth, then there's a little bit of a lull, then we're gonna get into that like resident coho, coho, summer, summer sinock, run it all the way through, and then fall coho all the way.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay. Huge fishery.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Busy every day. Oh, yeah. Um, I am really excited. Uh, I love resident coho fishing. I absolutely love it. If I could pick between the B run, uh, I would pick Resident Coho. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Early part all day long.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the Resi Co are fun and like to be honest, they're some of the best tasting fish. They are that we get access to the whole year. You know, I mean, they you know, they don't they don't get a ton of love because they're not super big. You're not, you know, like you're not gonna go get a 15-pound resi. Like no. But you'll know it was a resie when you cut into it and you're like, whoa. Yeah. That thing is deep.
SPEAKER_02It it just tastes so good.
SPEAKER_01It's so good. Yeah, I think I mean it it has to do with a lot of I think the krill and stuff that they eat, which is a little bit of a different sort of base food than what some of the more, you know, like ocean traveling fish are gonna get. But I it they're fantastic. I I absolutely like, you know, once we get into July and stuff and they get a little bit bigger, and I'm a deal, man. They're so good. I always make sure to like participate in that fishery a little bit.
SPEAKER_02I like to run lighter gear just to make it more interesting for clients and people in the boat.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02And uh, you know, they think that they're you feels like a 15-pounder.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, when you have when you got like light gear on, yeah, it's a ton of fun, you know. And like, and they, you know, and coho are just so fun, they hit so hard. To you know, even like a littler one, like you're like, whoa, whoa, this is you know, this is big. Um, but tell us a little bit about what your favorite month of the year to fish Puget Sound is, because this is this is a question I sort of ask a lot of people because one of the most remarkable things about Puget Sound is you know, like we can we can get into the weeds and we should have more days to do this or do that or whatever. But like if you're an angler and you like going to like just go fishing, get yourself, you know, even if it's like something to eat. There's I've never felt like, oh man, there's literally nothing to do, right? Like there's something to go catch, go eat 365 days a year in Puget Sound. So everybody's answer is always a little bit different when hey, what's your favorite month to go do something? My favorite month is August.
SPEAKER_02August. It seems like the Puget Sound comes alive. It just does. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you get a lot of those, you know, kind of big kings rolling through. Some of the early coho shows up. There's still resis moving around.
SPEAKER_02Yep. Whales are the whales are in the bait balls, the the amount of bait we saw last year. Oh, it was insane, man. It was incredible. It was incredible. I couldn't put your phone out to film it, and you're like, where do I uh like it's not big enough to catch it?
SPEAKER_01It was wild.
SPEAKER_02And you have birds dive, you have all kinds of species of birds out there dive bombing and floating around and making all kinds of noise. You have bait that looks like rain. Yeah, just oh yeah, just bombing everywhere.
SPEAKER_01And then last year the herring were huge too. I mean, some of them were like black-labeled herrings, man. It was like, wow, that was insane. Yeah, I even like went and caught some with the Tsubiki rig and like got them brined up and everything. It was like mooching some of the like black-labeled herring for those that that summer Chinook. That's a good idea, and like we did real good. That's awesome. A lot of times we run in the greens and stuff, but I mean, like, the the fodder out there was big, so a lot of those really large kings that we caught were like, Yeah, I want that, I want that one. Um, so that was pretty fun.
SPEAKER_02That was I had such and you know what? I the people on my boat also enjoyed it too. I mean, I was like, just take this in. I mean, you're not gonna see this every single day where you have bait, you have a couple uh bay porpoises rolling through, you're right. You got the iconic Washington State Ferry, you know, motoring through. It was just beautiful. Early morning, the bait's bubbling.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, I love it. I know, I do too. I mean, I you know, we haven't fished together yet, but one of my like sort of mantras all the time we're out on the water is like, can you believe we get to live here? Oh, yes, you know, like you're just it's just special. I agree with you. It doesn't, it just doesn't, you know, like it can be December, it can be June, it can be August, you know, like you're just like, man, we get to live here, we get to do this. Like, we got to go, we got to go salmon fish in the backyard, and it was good.
SPEAKER_02You have two mountain ranges, you have the Olympics at Cascades, you have a range of volcanoes, you have the Seattle skyline, like yeah, it's insane. Absolutely insane in the warnings. It's I yeah, I agree with you 100%. I tell my I tell my clients that uh, you know, where else?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. My favorite month to do stuff on the sound is interestingly enough, December. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, you know, there's not a salmon fishery for us, and salmon are near and dear to my heart, and I get to fish a lot. But it's also there's just something to me where you get those that clear December day where there's snow on the mountain ranges right down as far as you can see. The sun's low, you can see Baker, you can see the Olympics, you can see Rainier. The water's flat, right? Because there's not even boat traffic to stir up. And you're just out there. And it's for me that like the serenity of you know the Puget sound that you get in the wintertime is kind of bizarre because like there's still all this hustle and bustle in the city, it's still busy, everybody's living their life, they're doing the thing, and then you know, you leave the marina and it's just you're you're just there. And it goes quiet. Goes it's quiet, you know, and like I I really love shellfish, like squid, crabs, shrimp, all that's like some of my most favorite food in the whole world. So, you know, winter crabs open, so I'll go and drop the crab pots and just kind of float around with the family and um come back and check them. And like for me, that's uh that doesn't get a lot better than that. Um, which is you know, so far nobody's ever said December either, but yeah, um you know, August, August is pretty common. I get it, I understand why. Yeah, I mean it's it's hard to beat August, you know what I mean? Like it's good at a lot of places, and you know, for you as a charter captain too, like being able to go out and really reliably see Coes and Schinock and you know, and if I don't, you know, some of the charter captains do the crab pot thing. I don't know if that's something that you participate in or not.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. I mean, it's it's not everybody for sure. That's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. Uh and and a lot of you know, the the guests and stuff like that. If they're here on vacation, then what are they gonna do with a bunch of crabs? Man, they don't they don't have a place to cook them or do anything with them. Whereas, you know, a piece of fish they oftentimes will. Yeah. Um yeah. What else what else do we need to know about you? I have a I have a couple more questions, but uh, you know, when we storyboarded this out, it was a little bit like you know, we want to just kind of learn about you know where you came from, who you are, and what you do.
SPEAKER_02Mostly what I want people to know is is this for me is more about passion and just giving back. I'm not in this to make money. I mean, it's just not I'm not running my business like that. I'm not losing money, but I'm not making, I'm breaking even. You know. Um and I want people to know that there's other captains out there that do care about our fishery and about if you have a great experience or not. Um I work not only with the food banks, but I work with local police departments when their personnel need a little R. I will donate a trip to a certain police department. I'll bring six of their members on board, four four of their members, um, and I'll take them fishing for the day. Um so that's why I'm doing what I'm doing out here in the sound. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Is you want to try and figure out how you can take something that you're passionate about and make bring other people in and then do good with it.
SPEAKER_02And help them, yeah, and just let them know that there's somebody else out there that cares.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um yeah, that's why I gotta do that's what this is kind of morphed into. I've always been that type of person, but it's just kind of morphed into fishing, has been the platform to bring everybody together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I respect that. You know, doing there's not a lot of people that are doing good in this world, it feels like. So to have have someone that's in a you know, in a position to be able to say, hey, you know, I have I have the time and ability to do this, and I want to try and just have it be a good thing for others. Yeah. And we're not out there solving the world's problems. No, but I mean, like, we're just like sometimes good in the world comes in a lot of different ways, man. You know, and like life is hard, it's stressful, there's a lot going on for everybody. So, you know, just providing somebody an out for a few hours is like you can solve a lot of problems, but just slowing the world down a little bit for someone.
SPEAKER_02I had one client um happened to me one time, and it was just him. Um his wife bought him the whole boat, and um he we lost a fish. We were trolling for uh for resident coho, and we lost this fish, right? It's a barbless, all that good stuff. And he I didn't we were talking, it seemed everything seemed normal, but then when he lost the fish, it's like he was gonna snap my pole into and throw it in the water, yeah. And and he I was like, Well, hold on, and man, he kind of broke down a little bit and was just like, Man, I've had such a rough time at work and just everything that he needed that outlet, yeah. And I didn't pick up on that, and I should have at the dock, but it was you know just happy go lucky, yeah. But man, we got to know each other pretty well after that, yeah. Um, and so that was even more of a of affirmation of just or reassuring that hey, you need to keep doing this and keep providing an outlet for people um just to go and have fun. Who wants, I mean, a lot, not a lot of people are in my position where they can spend four hours every single day or eight hours every single day learning how to fish the PJ Sound. You know, yeah they don't, yeah, they don't have that time, and so it's hard. That's why you can come to somebody like me, get that guidance, and then go make your time more productive on your day off, on your half a day off.
SPEAKER_01So, you know, yeah, uh booking a guide is definitely I was I was having this conversation with another fishing guide, is like, you know, I was a fishing guide when I was younger. I'm a fishing rep now. Um, but like I book guide trips a lot. You know, just I don't I don't want to row today. I want to go fishing with my dad. Yeah. I'm just gonna get a guide. Like getting a guide is not a even if you are a professional or think you're really good or something like that, like sometimes it's nice to just go get a guide and get a different different look on it, you know, and like as I've gotten older and like I'm I am a like I make my living and feed my family from the fishing industry and I still book fishing guides. Like, you know, sometimes you owe it to yourself, even if you think you're you know, all that in a bag of chips, to just go get a different look. Yeah, different perspective. Don't worry, you know, like don't worry about cleaning the boat at the end of the day or the fish, right? Like sometimes you like you know, it's a good thing to just go do it, go learn, go do this, go do that. Um, you know, with with that in mind, what's the best way for, you know, a um give us like some exact instructions if you want to try and donate to the food bank on how um you know you can get the flashers. I'm sure there's gonna be some people that are interested in that. Um, and then you know, booking a trip, give us you know your details. What's the best way to get a hold of you? You know, you have some cards in in the store here, um, but throw out your contact information. So if somebody is listening wants to get a hold of you to book a trip, we'll send we'll send it off with that.
SPEAKER_02Um, I would say DM me uh hunt on Instagram at huntfishpnw underscore.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02And I'll send you a link directly to the Maple Valley Food Bank. Okay. Uh my website, hfpnw.com. It'll get a hold of me. You call my, you can email that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's a phone number on an email off there. Get a hold of me. Um, what was the other one? Uh really just that, like how to do the food bank. So DM. Yeah. DM if you're interested in trying to work with the food bank and get some flashers, or just work with the food bank and say, hey, I want to I want to help out. Um, I think we should all do that. Uh, and then website is the right way to get a hold of them for a trip. And yeah, so uh do you run another question? I guess we'll send it off with this. Um do you do single seats or do you have to get the whole boat? So you know, the six packs some guys run, hey, yeah, like you know, I need to have the whole boat booked, or hey, I have two seats available and book them.
SPEAKER_02I'm going to say it varies per per customer. Okay, right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you can certainly book the whole boat, but if you got one guy, you say, Hey, yeah, I have a seat for you on this day, come on out.
SPEAKER_02Just depends on what's going on, but typically I want the whole boat. Um, but if it's a situation where um they can't afford it or whatever, if they donate to the food bank, I'm gonna make an exception and you get the whole boat for a little bit of money.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02I want them to have that experience for helping us out.
SPEAKER_01Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. So get yourself involved, help out. Maple Valley Food Bank would love your money. Um, you know, it's easier for me to ask than them. So that's what they need. Let's help them out. Let's get some flashers. Let's go catch some blackmouth. Please. And uh, if you see a real nice black and gray 30 foot offshore rolling around, roping on fish, you can certainly say hi and you're gonna get a smile and a wave.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. So roll on by, say hi to me, ask me what I'm what what I'm using, what I'm where what what's going on, I'll tell you everything if if I can get it relate to you for sure across the water.
SPEAKER_01Really approachable guy in the water, friendly face, and he's here to help us all. So thanks for being here. We really appreciate having the invite, Anthony. We're gonna we're gonna do some fishing this year, and we'll take some photos and do all that. It's gonna be a good time. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Three Reverse Marine podcast. We would like to give a special thanks to our sponsors, and run tackle, make your own bite window. Fisherman's gold products. Everything we make, we fish ourselves. And Duckworth Boats, legendary adventure.