Adam Hudson grew up fishing for bass with his family in northern Alabama, where traditional gear fishing is king...hell it's practically religion.  Thanks to an uncle who brought a fly rod on a family trip to the smokies, Adam fell in love almost instantly and changed the course of his life forever. A couple decades later, Adam and his friend Steve, opened Blue Line Co Flies and started offering specialty pattern flies to target the small mouth and large mouth bass that was common to their area. Fast forward even further, and the guys have a wide range of flies, fly lines and other produc ..read more

Maddie, the host of Beer In Beautiful Places on Youtube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook joins the podcast to talk about her recent through hike of the John Muir Trail (JMT) in Northern California and her upcoming adventure through hiking the Appalachian Trail.   ..read more

Chef Corso, owner of OutdoorEats and outdooreats.com sits down by the campfire in St. Genevieve Missouri at Hawn State Park for a conversation about his career in cooking. We talked about his love for food and the family members that helped him along the way. Chef Corso dove into the culinary school experience and his different jobs in the food industry. After leaving a career in the test kitchens at Starbucks, Corso took a chance on himself and his passion for cooking outside. He built his own brand, website, cookbooks and started launching content. He’s developed over 200 recipes that are te ..read more

John Lagow, professional fly fishing guide out of the historic Ark Anglers Fly Shop in B.V. Colorado joins the show.  I had an absolute blast getting to know yet another incredible guide, with another super unique story.  John found his way to guiding after coming to Colorado to paddle her storied waters at the young age of 19.  We had a super lively conversation about his love for the Arkansas River, the whitewater that presents unique challenges to anglers, both new and experienced, and the landscapes that he gets to explore in the area.  We also spent time talking about ..read more

Erica Haller is who we should all aspire to be in the outdoors; adventurous, curious, humble, educated and enjoyable.  Erica is exactly who I have wanted to meet since the day I started this podcast, several years ago. We spent time talking about her background in the outdoors, her passion for public lands and teaching people about the incredible landscapes that we, as Americans, get to explore.  We also got to dive into the insane practice of invasive python hunting in the everglades, how to ethically dispatch of snakes and what Erica is able to do with those animals, honoring the r ..read more

Dan, or DC Outdoors on Youtube joins the show to talk about our mutual love for the outdoors and making films about our experiences outdoors. Dan's channel, one of my favorite on youtube, IG and Twitter, is all about helping people understand more about hunting, fishing and camping. I've gotten to know Dan over the last two years on social media and we finally got a chance to talk face to face, over the internet of course.  We talked about cooking, gear, how to get away, with the family and without and a whole host of other topics. Stick around for this outdoor adventure! Dan's channels ..read more

Chris Conant, owner of Morning Dew Fishing Company in Southwest Florida joins host AJ Eads on episode 21 of Outdoors Podcast.  Chris and I had an absolute blast talking about his career as a professional fly fishing guide.  Chris is currently guiding for saltwater fish like tarpon, snook and redfish but just as recently as 2020, he was leading the fly shop at South Fork Lodge on the south fork of the snake river in SouthEast Idaho.   We talked about why chris loves to guide, his career as a corporate attorney that he left to pursue a different lifestyle with his wife Becca ..read more

Ali Boundy is a wedding photographer that specializes in destination weddings.  She’s based out of Lake Tahoe, and travels regularly for her projects.  We found her work through a former podcast guest and mutual friend.  Our wedding went just about perfectly, and according to our simple plan.  Ali was a big part of our success.  We got to spend nearly three days together and I feel like I got to know her even better then we did on this podcast. I invited Ali onto the show because I was interested in how she got into photography in the first place, who helped her along ..read more

Instagram's PuristOnTheFly and I sit down for a conversation on Fly Fishing, Outdoor Ehtics, Conservation and the effect of the micro influencer world on our outdoor spaces. I learned a ton from our talk about Tailing Gloves, and their acceptable applications, why not to Fish Redds or spawning fish in general and what it means to be a "Steward of the land" as we talk about so much on this channel ..read more

In the first episode of a new series, Campsite Conversations, my buddy and return guest, Casey Heeter and I talk all things outdoors live from our campsite in the Red River Gorge area of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Casey is a backpacking expert, having spent hundreds of nights in the woods, some of them being under -30 degrees for fucks sake. Casey, my fiance Sara and I along with Casey’s dog Odin and Our dog Yose recently went on a backpacking trip in the Red River Gorge and Casey and I decided we should do a podcast from our back country campsite and I’m glad we did. We talked about Te ..read more