A podcast about fishing buddies figuring out the world.
Survey to determine the fate of Decker Lake: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WELArrange Should it be drained for a PGA golf course? There may not be much more time on it, so Jamey and Matthew try their best to catch every fish in the lake. Although they really only catch a couple. They talk about chicharrones and if it’s an unfair advantage if you get to take the first cast.
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Jamey and Matthew try to recreate their most notorious fishing expedition to Lake Walter E. Long (we’ll tell you about it some time), by portaging the canoe into their favorite lake through a back entrance. It’s the hottest May in Texas on record, so how will our heroes fare in these trying conditions?
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Jamey and Matthew paddle out into Lake Walter E. Long, the biggest lake within the Austin City Limits that no one has ever heard of. Ignoring the weather reports, they hit their favorite spots in the lake, pulling in black crappie, sunfish, and some of the biggest largemouth bass they’ve seen in a while. There’s also some impressive high-stakes shit-talking, and a medley of hits from Annie. It’s the peak of the fishing season at Lake Long, so hopefully there’s more to come!
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Even though they spend an entire weekend fishing, Jamey and Matthew only manage to put together a 22-minute podcast. Because of technical problems mainly, if we’re honest. Highlights of the epic saltwater fishing trip to Matagoda include a veritable swarm of hardhead catfish and an involuntary education into their venomous barbs. A bonnethead shark came to the net, as well as a bunch of gafftop catfish, if we’re keeping score. A conversation while driving down a treacherous beach focuses on the merits of the cut-rate sci-fi programming available on Comet TV.
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Fishing team returns to the Undisclosed Location (UL) for what they assume is the last time before the pond gets choked with summer growth. In this nondescript urban pond in the heart of Austin, Jamey and Matthew catch a plethora of largemouth bass and sunfish. Afterward they hit up a local corn-cup store called Las Manganadas and eat some amazing corn cups filled with fiery hot Cheetos.
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Fishing team returns to the Undisclosed Location (UL), for a madcap jaunt around our favorite little Austin fishing hole. Using a variety of flies including the cypert minnow (whose name just suddenly came back to me), poppers, foam spiders, and bead-head nymphs, we catch all the green sunfish and bass you can imagine.
Unfortunately, our recording equipment has been degrading throughout our fishing adventures, so the sound quality and the length of this madcap adventure is pretty short. But we do get a couple of good digs in on Jamey, and expressions of pure joy. Not to mention a That Wasn’t That Bad segment while eating barbecue sandwiches at the Rolling Smoke food cart on East Sixth Street.
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Jamey and Matthew visit their favorite little fishing hole for the first time this season. They primarily use fly fishing techniques, squirmy wormies and a streamer fly whose name Matthew has forgotten. If you know what the fly is, email us at ask@lastcastpodcast.com! When the topwater action heats up, the mics blow out from shear excitement. Fishing team catches so many fish that they forget who catches the most sunfish and largemouth bass. Also of note, famed film auteur Tommy Wiseau makes an appearance.
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Jamey takes the week off, as Matthew takes a family trip to North Carolina and Lake Norman. Despite having access to a pier all weekend, Matthew only spends a few hours fishing, actually spending time with other human beings instead. But during those few hours, Matthew meets the whiskered denizens of Lake Norman’s deep.
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Since nobody is quite as hopeful as fishing team, Jamey and Matthew find themselves tackling under-appreciated east side lake, Walter E. Long, aka Decker Lake, for the old-school Austin folks. They have dreams of hybrid stripers and the crappie spawn, but do those dreams become a reality?
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In this episode, Jamey and Matthew return to Camp Tejas near Lake Georgetown to fish for white bass in the North Fork of the San Gabriel River. The redbuds are blooming and the weather is perfect, but the water is low-can they find the fish?
After fishing, the team takes lunch at Burger University in downtown Georgetown. This episode edited by Jamey Maness.
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