Sporting Diversity

A welcome to season two and a review of season one. We hope you enjoy the stories that we have made as much as we have enjoyed making them.

In Episode 4 We talk with VP of Trout Media, the communications arm of Trout Unlimited, Kirk Deeter about Gateways into upland bird Hunting and fly fishing. We also visit with newcomer to the sports Sam Nelson. We hear Kirk and Davin Topel wax poetic about duck hunting and Sam Nelson tells us about how he learned to dove hunt in Texas. We discuss how diversity is key to the protection of our wild places and Davin catches Joshua Crumpton off guard by flipping the interview in on him. This episode is a great listen whether you are new to the outdoors or a seasoned veteran, we are sure you will find something that resonates.

We discuss mining, conservation, superfund projects, and trout fishing while sitting on the banks of the Animas River with Jeremy Nolan and Rob Peper of Heads Up Fly Fishing and Ty Churchwell of Trout Unlimited. Lots of great information on learning to fly fish and conservation.

Recored in Steamboat Springs, Colorado Davin and I are making are way up to camp after dropping his vehicle off at the shop. Get the update on our progress. We talk a bit about how things are going on the road tour at this point.

Edgar Diaz of Sight Line Provisions talks native cutthroats with Nick Streit of Taos Fly Shop and The Reel Life Fly Shop. Edgar also shares his thoughts on Episode 2: Rio Grande and being a POC in the fly fishing industry. 

We talk diversity and fly fishing from the banks of the Rio Grande with our friends Ivan Valdez, Nick Streit, and Joe Talachy. We cover all the ground from being a Latino fly shop owner to life as a Native American connecting to the outdoors through fly fishing.

Davin Topel and Joshua Crumpton give an update on their travels from the banks of the Yampa River. 

The group visits Willow Creek. A Trout Unlimited cold water conservation project in the Sangre De Cristo mountain range. Listen along as Joshua Crumpton, Davin Topel, and Edgar Diaz meet up with Jason Decker, Harris Klein, Frank Adelo, Arnold Atkins talk fishing, mining, and conservation.

We are headed on a Road Tour. The Sporting Diversity Road Tour 2020, a podcast is born. We are off on are journey of Fly Fishing and Upland Hunting. We will be discussing diversity, inclusion, conservation and the outdoors for the next 22 days. If you like bird dogs and fly rods, quail, chuckar, grouse, rainbow trout, cutthroats and browns then give us a shot. Be here from the start, listen to Episode 0 and and join in our journey.