Ep. 01 August 1, 2026 54 min Video
The Pilot Hole: Why Start a Podcast When You Could Be Fishing?
Episode one. Renato and Cole explain what this show is, why dry flies or nothing, and establish the official house rules for exaggerating fish size.
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The craft
Hatches, drifts, refusals, tiny flies, honest technique — we take the fishing seriously, just never ourselves.
The lies
Every fish story, properly told. Fish sizes governed by the R&L Exaggeration Index: one honest inch per retelling.
The guests
Guides, fly tyers, and shop owners — the people who actually know what they’re doing, on the record, over a beer.
The archive
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Your hosts
Two guys, one river, occasional facts
Renato Vanzella
Half the lies
Carries some 300 fly boxes and will cast every last one of them at a single rising fish. Takes every refusal personally. The trout know him by name — they warn each other.
Cole Atchley
The other half
Lands fish while Renato is still retying. Beard, cigar, dries or nothing — and "honest inches," a unit he invented and refuses to define.
Plus the guides, tyers, and shop owners who actually know what they're doing — more on the show →
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