Claim OwnershipBent
Subscribed: 1,295Played: 62,009
Subscribe
2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia
Description
Fishing can be slow. Podcasts about fishing shouldn’t be. That’s why we created Bent, the unapologetic fishing podcast that moves faster than a tournament bass boat but doesn’t take itself near as seriously. Host Joe Cermele welcomes anglers of all backgrounds and interests, from hardcore crappie jiggers to dry-fly purists to offshore tuna addicts. Even if you’re just mildly fish curious, this podcast has something for you: regional fishing reports, tackle tips, trash talk, etymology, weekly news, trivia, even suggestions on how to piss off your fishing guide. Come for the soggy cooler sandwiches; stay for the raccoon-eyes tan lines. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.
88 Episodes
Reverse
Grab some fine malt liquor and laugh along with Joe, Hayden, and the mighty Phil as the fellas bid a warm adieu to the podcast that made you feel the same kind of good as a Wendy’s Baconator the morning after getting the drunkest you’ve been since college. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today on the show we: ride our tuggies into the sunset with a final-ish episode. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we celebrate opening day by tying every fly in the Wal-Mart trout starter pack on at the same time, ripping a spinner that could battle a salmon shark through the bridge hole, bumping a plastic hell bug in the last resort run, and turn a drinking straw into a limit catcher. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we destroy the lives of old people in the name of great smallmouth fishing, purchase tying thread off a guy that likely stole it in an armed robbery, debate whether fish would rather have Uncle Ben’s or Rice-A-Roni jammed in their body cavities, and tell you why you should just buy whatever fly rod you can afford. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we travel the globe in Jeff Bezos’ version of the Tuggy sandbox, explain the importance of casting to where the fish are, arm ourselves with knowledge to ward of a plague of smallmouth bass, and cast handmade swimbaits into branches just slightly out of reach. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on “Trout Vest Aficionado,” we shame a young man for his lack of clinch knot skills, pat Timmy on the back for a super duper shad, discuss the graphic violence in “Old Man And The Sea,” and smash big tunas with the butterfly effect.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we channel our inner Bob Vila to make everything from college loan payments to the finest spearing decoys, better taxidermy choices to weaponized brook trout, and an ice fishing miracle certain to help you lose more fish to unnecessary tangles. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we boop the nose of a bait-stealing otter, tell you how to tie a little deer-hair cocktail umbrella that won’t impress anyone, help you choose knives or chains to deal with a buddy that blew up your honey hole, and spin the perfect mouse pattern for ruining someone’s wedding.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we set up our shanty in the red light district and go fishing for urban legends, discuss toxic fumes in a pop-up that aren’t just the usual farts, watch a victorious angling achievement get turned into public humiliation, and cast ballots for braid or fluorocarbon for beginners. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week in our beer-fueled Stupor Bowl, we: explore the twisted economics of using Converse All-Stars as flats boots, recommend the Blue Goo when all else fails, tell you everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about burbot, and explain how fishing revenge might be best served via a half time commercial. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today on “Lifestyles of the Sad and Fishless” we: Get airborne with Mike Iaconelli and land in the drama pool, say goodbye to the ugliest jerkbait ever made, discuss the verbal abuse-to-tip ratio on charter trips, and help you make a living worm dunking in Washington.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on “Failing For Dollars,” we suggest a career move that’ll make you rich off other people’s hardwater idiocy, pose newborn babies with long-dead trout, take a bite out of a half-cocked shark quiz, and make room in your freezer for a few spools of fluorocarbon.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week in the Amity Island classifieds, we place an ad for 500 unwanted armoured catfish, sell you on stocked steelhead and make a little dough, buy horrible 90s movies on VHS and feed them to mako sharks, and have a casual encounter with our lack of US Naval history. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on “Frayed Family Ties,” we: teach your child how to earn an iPod with a knife and a thirst for cod blood, go float-n-fly dunking for suspended fishing licenses, make a case for a knot that apparently only dorks use, and grab a drink at a trouty bar with its own theme song.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on “Fishin’ With Omicron Wilson,” we: take our mittens deep into Brown Town and wipe the place up, slide over a few rock bars in Mad Max’s fishing sled, make it rain gizzard shad, and answer your burning question about eating delicious trophy breeders.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The week, we close out 2021 with a drunken roundtable about severed ears, vow to give the Tasmanian Devil a crack for truck trout, tell our wives we’re mud shark fishing as a cover for a nudie bar crawl, and regret to inform you it’s time to take that Bass Pro hat out behind the barn.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we celebrate Christmas Eve by telling you the best knock-off spinner to jam in your stocking, where to find bass that are all lips and hips, why Santa is qualified to represent the LBC, and why he’s not qualified to be a successful flats fisherman. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on the weigh-in stage, we give Brandon Palanuik a huge fake check just so he’ll hang out with us for a little while, Carl Jocumsen talks about the art of stump grinding, we find the real Batman (but he’s not big enough to keep), and raise a glass to a huge win for the Everglades. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on “Breaking Bad Knots,” we: take a deep dive into the dam malfunction that shook the fly world, let the air out of a client’s dream trip without them knowing it, explore the sexy past of a now mundane lure, and bait you with Bubble Tape and Razzles.Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we head to Canada to learn where leeches come from, confirm that muskies are still “fun as frick” to catch even when they’re too easy, find out that your mullet looks better with perch than bowfin, and get mad at sharks for ruining your rookie season in bonefishing. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States
wow what a joke. They run fishing booker adds... trash. stealing money from the local fisherman. call your local fly/tackle shop before booking with suits taking money out of the working captians pocket.
Hayden needs to shut his Tautog looking, hippy mouth. Joe, get my wife on the podcast and she will clear this taxidermy conversation up for you. Hayden, don't shit where you eat and stop talking shit. Love ya Joe. Look at Kostella Taxidermy. She's hot too.
A review i found left on Amazon about said porta-pontoon🤣 A joke, a laugh and a disappointment all in one. Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021 First off, this is a giant crock. The book is a poorly disguised attempt to sell $300 dollars worth of home depot storage container for $1000. The "captain" rants and raves about how experienced he is but should know that fabricobbled tubs does not a boat make. I would love to see him get "boarded" and inspected by the USCG. Though they might be too busy laughing to conduct a proper inspection. This is an unsafe and poorly designed excuse for a water craft and if someone were to fall for this, i would worry for their mental health and their safety. Do not give this man a dollar of your money. If you really want something for you teenage kid "build" as a STEM project go buy 12 tubs from homedepot and a few 2x4s. You will save time and money because that is essentiall what you are getting. May your God have mercy on you because you will
Definitely enjoy this podcast, yes some parts are a bit odd and I could skip a minute or two, it's funny and quite entertaining. keep up the great work!
skip jacks are an all out blast to fish for with a fly rod!
Dude I live in southeastern ohio and the salt life stickers absolutely infuriate me!! Like mofo you probably ain't ever seen saltwater in your life!! #poser #idrivemydaddiestruck #neverthrownasurfrodinyourlife
Love the podcast! It's just goofy enough to keep you on your toes!! Love the random bits of information as well!
GET RID OF LANCE! cant stand his segment. Other then that I look forward to every friday to listen. Keep up the good work!
you carry bolt cutters on your boat to cut off hooks that may pop out off the fish and impale your skin!!! All musky fisherman know this including my musky fishing Wife! We were both yelling at the podcast for this one.
keep it up this is great stuff!!!
I tried to like this podcast, but whenever the segment with the YouTube guy Lance comes on, I have to shut it down. The guy isn't the least bit humourous.
First episode was terrible, I'm giving episode 2 a shot before I unsubscribe. All of the other meateater branded podcasts are great but this one isn't looking too good.
expected better from meateater.
If you like really obvious, sophomoric humor, and bad sketch comedy, you will love this pod. I was real excited about it but tapped out 10 minutes in.