S7, Ep 18: License to Fish: The Intersection of Art and Angling with Cody Richardson of Cody's Fish

Marvin Cash
00:00:03

Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly. On this episode, I'm joined by Cody Richardson of Cody's Fish.

Cody shares his fishing and artistic journey and we take a deep dive into his incredibly unique license plate artwork. I think you're really going to enjoy this one, but before we get to the interview, just a couple of housekeeping items.

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Cody Richardson
00:01:35

Marvin, I appreciate it.

Marvin Cash
00:01:37

Yeah, looking forward to our conversation. And we have a tradition on the Articulate Fly. I like to ask all of our guests to share their earliest fishing memory.

Cody Richardson
00:01:45

Ooh.

Well, so I grew up in Colorado and earliest fishing memory is tough, I would say, you know, some I have photos of my dad literally giving me casting lessons with a fly rod in the front yard when I was like barely able to stand up. And of course I don't remember that.

What I do remember would be in a string and it would be I had a cane pole but my dad would put flies on the cane pole.

And so it was really kind of like a high sticking kind of almost like what Euro nipping is nowadays, but with a cane pole, which is, you know, it's the same darn thing really, or you know, whatever you want to call it. But I'd be doing that in streams with wet flies and dry flies as a kid and you know, other times it was, you know, junk and a Worm in a.

In a lake with that same cane pole. But I used that thing all over the place. I think it was like 12 foot long. And. Yeah, so that would be the first one I remember doing that.

And so when I started really, you know, kind of fly fishing and kind of getting back to some of those trout techniques later, like, it really became pretty natural to me after starting off like that.

Marvin Cash
00:03:07

Very neat. So are you not a worm dunker, slash gear guy turned fly fisherman? Were you always a fly fisherman?

Cody Richardson
00:03:14

You know, so I started off that way as far as, you know, with the cane pole and learning to basically fly fish in the beginning.

And then I went to the early days of the, you know, the ISC shows and back then, you know, it was really big back then and they had, you know, the fishing tanks and they held the guys with the flashy spin cast rods. And I wanted a Zedco 33 with a ugly sticks that aren't bad. And I got one of those things.

And so then I learned to do traditional gear fishing from there. So I was actually first fly fishing and then with you know, maybe some poor guidance from the. The show started doing more so gear fishing.

But it was great, you know, I learned that also and was able to go back to fly fishing later on in life.

Marvin Cash
00:04:06

Very, very neat. So who are some of the folks that have mentored you on your fly fishing journey and what'd they teach you, man?

Cody Richardson
00:04:14

So with me growing up, you know, earlier on, you know, I learned how to fly fish and, you know, my dad pulled me away from doing the Zebco thing and kind of got me back into fly fishing. And, you know, we got, you know, kind of traditional fly fishing. It was great. He was teaching me how to do that.

Well, he unfortunately passed away when I was 10 years old. He was in a car accident. And, well, from there I kind of stayed away from fishing for a little bit.

I did some here and there, but it was just difficult for me doing it and. And not having a vehicle and not having anyone to go with and all that type of stuff. And then started getting back into it in my early.

Well, in my teens a lot. But a lot of it when I was in my teens was because I was went to a high school in Fort Collins.

And there's a well known fly tire that you guys probably know named Rick Takahashi. And Rick Takahashi was my art teacher in high school. And there was a few other great teachers in that school. Scott Kemp was another one to recognize.

But those guys were definitely a huge influence in Me getting back into fly fishing. And so Takahashi being. He was, you know, an art teacher, avid fly tire. Avid fly fisherman. And he taught me how to tie flies again.

And we started getting after it and he, you know, over and over. And I was able to take those things to the river on the weekends and catch fish myself. And it brought me back into the sport.

Marvin Cash
00:05:53

So, yeah, very, very neat. And, you know, before we start talking more about Cody's fish, I was really kind of curious, kind of how you got into metal working.

Cody Richardson
00:06:02

Well, you know, it wasn't really ever a metal working type of thing that I was ever into. It was more woodworking. Metal thing kind of came upon when I had the idea of Cody's finish of the artwork to do.

But before that it was all woodworking and making furniture and learning how to use tools and. And preferring to make artwork rather than, you know, on canvas and something you can kind of hold.

Marvin Cash
00:06:34

Very, very neat. And so tell us, you know, where did the idea for Cody's fish come from?

Cody Richardson
00:06:40

So at the time, I worked for a fire department for quite a while and moved back to the front range of Colorado, where I needed a job and found a company that was. There was a hazmat company.

So basically this job, a bunch of things happened where, you know, they were sending me out to try to kill me every darn week, but ended up on the road with them, traveling to different places and hovering a bunch of stops. And what was nice about that is if I finished up my work quick enough, I was able to go fishing. These wonderful places being my.

My route was basically Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and a little bit of Idaho. So I was among some of the best trout fishing waters of the west.

And so anyway, I was doing that and completely all my time while I was driving, I was thinking about fishing.

And one of the times when I was on my way back home to Colorado in the night, I was driving along and I had this idea that, well, at the time, everyone was really proud of the state flags and everyone in Colorado was wearing the Colorado flag on their shirt and their hats, blah, blah, blah. And I had this idea of making a fish out of the Colorado license plate because the flag is really cool, but so is the license plate.

And then I'm like, you know, all these license plates from all these states have so such a great detail and so much artwork to them. They're so darn cool looking. Why not make a fish out of one of these? And so I ended up coming back to Colorado and I went on this crazy Hunt.

I thought it was going to be easy to find some license plates, but it's really actually hard because all these scrap yards, they're not allowed to just keep the license plates. They have to turn them back into the state so they can reuse those numbers.

And so I ended up finding this place that sold antique auto parts, and they happen to have a collection of old license plates from the 60s. And anyway, I was able to purchase some of those from them and started making a few pieces with that.

And so that's kind of the beginning idea of it was just to make something like that. It really didn't have a huge business goal or anything like that in mind. It was just trying to make something cool that really appealed to myself.

Marvin Cash
00:09:12

Interesting. And so roughly when was that leave?

Cody Richardson
00:09:17

That was 2013. I made two pieces, went in to a couple of the fly shops locally. There was anglers all.

There was Charlie's fly box, which is Charlie Craven and Mintern Anglers was the next day. And I remember that that first day was, you know, those. The. The first two shops, Englers all and Charlie's fly box.

I was kind of like a local, you know, like a regular into those shops. And I. I brought both of those. Those. Those shops a piece and showed it to them, and they pretty much said the same exact thing to me.

They're like, you know, Cody, it's cool. I like it. Unique idea, but we've tried selling artwork in fly shops, and unfortunately, artwork just doesn't really sell really well in.

But being that it's something unique, you know, let's go for it. Let's see what it does. And so they. They gave me the opportunity and. And I went home and I made two pieces for each of those shops.

Of those two shops, mentor anglers was about a week later. But anyway, I brought those two pieces back to them. Anglers all sold both of them before they got a chance to hang about up on the wall.

And Charlie Craven, he sold both of them within the first two days.

And so it was just like, oh, man, this is awesome, you know, and we just kind of kept going with it from there, and it just kind of happened really organically of adding different states, different types of fish, and just growing and growing from there.

Marvin Cash
00:10:55

Yeah, really neat. You know, speaking of different kinds of fish, I mean, you got tons of different designs.

And we'll talk a little bit later about, you know, I know you've branched into hunting and stuff too. You know, where do you kind of get the ideas about, you know, you know, what fish you want to do next and maybe how you want to do the kind of.

The graphic design?

Cody Richardson
00:11:14

Yeah, absolutely. The fish I want to do next, it's either, you know, kind of whatever's happening in my life. So if I'm.

If I'm seeing something that I think would be a good idea to make and, you know, come out with, then I'll do that. But right now, honestly, it's most of the people that are reaching out to me and being like, hey, can you make a dorado? Or whatever it might be?

And I'm like, well, heck, yeah. And so you get that inspiration, and then from there you're going to start.

Have to build in the kind of thinking about the customer and, you know, their story of how they caught that piece and where was that and, you know, what they were doing and trying to capture that moment and. And give them a piece that is going to make them think about where they were at. This is authentic to that place.

Marvin Cash
00:12:05

Very neat.

And so, you know, I know that sounds almost like you've almost transitioned now, almost to more of a commission type of creation process, but, you know, are there other, like, designers or creatives that you kind of watch to, you know, get ideas that are for Cody's fish or maybe for some other kind of artistic project?

Cody Richardson
00:12:25

I mean, I think for my own stuff, I kind of go after my own, you know, from either the, you know, what's happening where I'm living, you know, like, right now I live, you know, in Florida. And so there's a hog fish, for instance, that is just so darn cool looking. I never would have thought to make one of those things.

When I lived in Colorado or when I was in Colorado, I wanted to produce or not produce. I'm sorry, but to come up with a brown trout. Absolutely love the brown trout. The butter belly brown trout.

And so I worked on that piece for a long time and came up with a silhouette that, you know, I personally love a lot.

So, yeah, I mean, that's kind of one of the things that, you know, it'll come up through, you know, things that are happening in my life or whatever, you know, people are asking me to do.

Marvin Cash
00:13:22

Yeah. Really neat. And so, you know, once you kind of have an idea or a concept, can you walk us through kind of the.

The process from sort of idea to finish project?

Cody Richardson
00:13:33

Absolutely. So some of the pieces, I will just take a.

Find a photo if, you know, for instance, I haven't caught a, say, a blue marlin in a long time, but I want to Get a neat photo of a blue marlin or a silhouette, I should say. So I'll look around through photos of them, you know, Internet, whatever it might be.

And a lot of times what I'll do is I'll take that and I'll use that photo, blow it up and have it printed out and then kind of make adjustments, how I feel to give it more life to the piece.

So I'll cut it out on paper and then trace it out and then I'll kind of look at it and be like, you know, it's a neat looking piece, natural how it is, but to show its silhouette a little bit more, I'm going to add a little bit here, add a little bit there, come up with it. Other ones would just be like, I was talking before about the brown trout, where I'll lay that thing out on paper.

I completely drew that up from memory. Next night I came to it, came out to the garage, played some music, poured myself a nice beverage and kind of changed it a little bit.

And then the next day, went and looked at it again. It was right how I wanted it and kept it how it is.

Marvin Cash
00:14:56

Neat. And so when you draw them out and blow them up, are you cutting them out on, you know, like MDF or something like that?

Is that kind of the framework or are you freehand?

Cody Richardson
00:15:06

Oh, yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:15:07

Putting these all together?

Cody Richardson
00:15:08

Yeah. Yes. Sorry, I didn't completely answer that question. Did that. Yeah.

So anyway, drawing them out and what I'll do is I'll create a template, the template template I typically do on paper first. Then I transfer that to plastic and I'll cut that out onto a plastic sheet, keep that template from there.

Then I actually go into making the piece of artwork. So the piece of artwork, what I'll use is a Baltic birch, which is a plywood, but it's like a cabinet grade plywood. That's.

I mean, the Russian in Russia, the stuff that I use, the reason why I use it is because there's no voids in it, it's really strong and it's really nice looking. It's not like something you can buy from Home Depot. So I'll trace it out, cut it out of that with a jigsaw.

And then I take that piece of wood and I paint it with an exterior grade, paint over it. Because the idea is to make these things where they can be outdoors or indoors, however they want to be displayed from there.

Then the big part of it is the license plates. You know, we could get into, you know, how I source the license plates and how I choose the license plates and go from there.

But there's a layout of it, which actually is some of the more painstaking time of it. But that's, you know, laying them out and getting the angle right, getting the colors right, and getting them to fit all on how I wanted to do it.

And I do that, and then I cut them all out with. From there with 10 snips, basically, once they're all screwed down into place.

And then, you know, cut relief edges and wrap all the license plates around the sides of the art piece so it also looks really good from an angle.

And then after all of that stuff is doing and I'm pounding on these darn things and making it look just right, I do a clear coat over the top, which really brings out the colors, especially if there's some rust involved or some of the colors need to kind of be brought out to life. That clear coat really, really does it. And it actually adds a. Another protection level with the UV inhibitors on it.

Marvin Cash
00:17:22

Yeah, it's neat. It makes me almost like. Sounds like it's almost like putting like a.

Doing brick pavers or like putting down flooring where you're like, lay all the pieces out before you start nailing them down.

Cody Richardson
00:17:32

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, that's.

You know, a lot of people are asking me, you know, how I get the license plates and how long, you know, it takes me to make a piece, which I have a hard time answering that question, but. Because everyone's so different. But large part of it is, is. Is the getting the.

The right plates and getting them in the right spot and to where we have a mixture of colors that all play together really nice.

Marvin Cash
00:17:59

Yeah. And we'll talk in just a second about kind of the procurement process for getting all these license plates that you're not supposed to have, but.

But, you know, other than that, you know, is there some other kind of surprise that most people wouldn't realize kind of in the production process?

Cody Richardson
00:18:17

Yeah, I mean, I think the surprise that people would realize. I think a lot of people, when they see the pieces, are surprised how much of the actual hands on, like, labor I put into each one.

They're like, oh, you know, so you'll have.

You have a cnc, which probably would be a smart thing after a certain point, but I change up so many different pieces and designs, and I really like the enjoyment of doing stuff by hand. So, you know, it's the cutting the stuff out by hand with, you know, the jigsaws and such, and Using the actual, you know, hammer and chisels to.

To wrap all the license plates. That's the thing that a lot of people seem to be shocked about how I do that, you know.

Marvin Cash
00:19:04

Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, you know, the kind of, I guess, you know, kind of the artistic love and craft of it is kind of what makes it special.

I mean, if you started, you know, kind of industrializing it, it wouldn't be nearly as cool, would it?

Cody Richardson
00:19:16

Oh, absolutely. I mean, people come to me, they're like, cody, why don't you just get fake license plates made? You know, you could do that.

You could probably buy a machine or something that would do that. I'm like, no, that takes away all the story behind everything all these plates have.

You know, I'm looking at the duck that's sitting on my table right now, and it's.

It has this Louisiana license plate, for instance, it was in a structure fire, and so it's got little burnt up edges on it, you know, and you have the Missouri license plate from the, you know, 1976, 200 year anniversary. And, you know, just all these plates that have all these neat stories and, you know, and that's a, that's a migration area for a duck, for instance.

But, you know, the trout, you know, every piece has got its own little story behind it. You can talk about all the plates and what they mean for the area and all that at the same time. So always want to keep it at that. They can make it.

Make it custom for the person so they have that same story to tell.

Marvin Cash
00:20:13

Yeah, Very, very neat. And, you know, kind of on the procurement side. I mean, I think you literally are collecting plates from all 50 states. And I think I've seen.

Because I think I've seen a lobster where you had Bahamian license plates. So kind of how do you source all these things?

Cody Richardson
00:20:27

Good question. Yeah. So I have plates from every state in the United States. Probably have about.

I'm out in my shop right now and I probably have about 20,000 license plates in here. I'm guessing. I just actually bought a big old pallet rack to help out with that. So a lot of the domestic ones are from. I've met.

There's a whole network of pickers that are, you know, travel the country year round. And collectors, they're just license plate collectors. But these, these guys that are pickers are. They're a lot like the guy.

Pretty much exactly like the guys you see on the American Pickers TV show. And that's what they do. You Know, they travel around and they, they get this most amazing antiques.

But when they see license plates, they know that they have this, this, this guy that is obsessed with fishing and will buy the license plates from them. So they call me up and they're like, you know, hey, I'm.

I'm in Kansas City or Texas or wherever they may be, and I have these, and this is what I can do for you. And we, you know, we make deals from there. So, you know, that's one of those things that's kind of built up over time.

And I purchased a lot of my bulk and really concentrate on getting these old license plates because there's a huge shift from kind of pre 1970s and earlier where they had a lot of good colors. After that, they tend to go into more white license plates, which some of them can be really cool also.

But so that's how I get most of the domestic ones.

You know, some of the times I, you know, have people call up and they're like, you know, or family or grandpa had a bunch of them hanging in there, their barn. And we're looking, you know, we've seen what you do, and we like to sell them to you, which is fantastic when that happens.

And then besides that, the ones from other countries is really fun scavenger hunt, fishing trips to where you.

I've been able to go to, you know, Cuba, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Belize, all these different countries on kind of these scavenger hunts for, for license plates.

And you're also, of course, you know, the whole idea of going on a fishing trip is you're going hunting and you're kind of like on a mission in two different ways, you know, and, and as you probably know, I'm sure, Marvin, you've been on some destination fishing trips before.

Marvin Cash
00:23:04

Yes.

Cody Richardson
00:23:06

And with these destination fishing trips, we get to see a different vacation than the average vacation goer in the United States States gets to do. We get to go to some of these lodges and just actually see the culture and see the people and go do such neat thing.

When I get to go do these trips where I'm, you know, scavenging license plates and going fishing, you kind of get a, a double.

You know, some of the times you're in like a nice lodge and you're like, all right, well, hey, I'm heading out for a few days and I'm gonna be crawling around in, in some of your salvage yards. You end up some, some wild, wild things.

But between those two, with the domestic gathering of license plates from, from pickers and people's collections and such to these overseas travels. That's, that's how I come about all these license plates. Yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:24:07

Pretty neat. Do you have a particular plate or plates that kind of are, you know, kind of stand out in your memory is kind of a really spectacular find.

Cody Richardson
00:24:19

Well, okay, so let's say Cuba. Cuba definitely would be, you know, as we know, we have such a rich history, America and Cuba with, you know, everything political.

Basically there's a whole embargo period with them.

And with that being said, I searched for a long, long time and amongst many, many conversations and emails and stuff, I basically found a gentleman that lives in Cuba that has the old style Cuban license plates. The new cell ones are kind of like the European. They're long and skinny and white and really boring.

And you'd be, you know, basically locked up and thrown away if you ever tried taking those out of the country. But the old ones, you can. The only problem is no one has them.

I, you know, I went to, on a fishing trip with Avalon one time and I went to Havana and I spent three days in Havana thinking for sure I'm going to get them. And they came out completely empty handed and everyone said the exact same word, that is impossible.

They had all these fake ones for sale, but the real ones, it was impossible.

And then I came back to the States and then like a year or two later ended up finding this gentleman who happens to be a lawyer in Cuba that has a Cuban museum and it's under like three layers of locked gates that I had to go through.

And this gentleman has the old license plates and he also has all this old, you know, governmental propaganda from previous presidents that he's kind of like locking up and holding there is for people to be able to remember the past because it's not really traditionally light around there for their. They remember the path of Cuba, but he has all them. And I was able to get a bunch of these old license plates from them.

And they have spectacular colors.

I mean, if you've ever been fishing in Cuba, you know, with a permit and a tarpon and snook and all these wonderful fish, it's just such a cool place. It's amazing. It's like 90 miles away from Key West. Yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:26:35

Pretty neat.

And you know, it's interesting because I noticed, I think the last time I, I saw you at the Denver fly fishing show, I had noticed that you were starting to branch out into to more traditional hunting stuff, you know, deer, birds, dogs. I was kind of curious.

Is that dovetail with you getting kind of back into hunting or was there something else that kind of pulled you in that direction?

Cody Richardson
00:26:57

Yeah, I've always loved hunting. You know, it's never been quite the obsession it is for me with fishing. I mean, I'm sure a lot of. A lot of your.

Your listeners can, you know, understand with me to where if I'm spacing out, there's a high likelihood. I'm probably thinking of a different way technique to catch fish or new way to. New way to do it. But I absolutely love hunting myself.

With that being said. Yeah, it's just taken off the hunting world with this. I've been doing a lot of work with Ducks Unlimited in this last year.

Rocky Mountain Elk foundation, starting off with pheasants forever like you wouldn't believe. Turkey, all of it. So it's been really, really going well with that. And it's kind of a whole new world to stepping into. It's been a lot of fun. Yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:27:52

And it's so, I think, think doing the rough math right, you're probably. You've been doing Cody's fish for a little over a decade. You know, what's been your biggest kind of surprise or challenge as you've grown.

Cody Richardson
00:28:02

The business, you know, surprises is, you know, how. How to come in this business.

In the beginning, you think you can, you know, walk in and show these people your artwork and they're going to buy it, but sometimes it ends up them coming to you later and asking you if they could buy it from you. But really the biggest challenge in all that is just owning your own business. It's a wild thing, and it's a small business that I have.

But there's so many different things that you have to do or, you know, all these people in your industry that are doing the same type of thing from being their own, you know, fishing guide, owning a fly shop, owning a small company, whatever it may be, you know, to see small challenges of, you know, all the different angles that it takes to own. Own your own company. And it's a blast. We're so blessed that we get to live in America at this time and be able to do this.

But there's a lot that goes into it. And trying to balance your time and in your resources to be able to do it is. Is. It's great. Glad I'm able to do it. Yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:29:16

It's funny you say that because I'm sort of in the same boat and it's, you know, there's all this tremendous freedom that you have, but you Know, the buck literally stops with you, right?

Cody Richardson
00:29:25

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Every day you come up, you wake up, and you have your plan for the week, and you might as well tear that up and throw it away by.

By Monday afternoon, because this doesn't always go quite that way, you know, but every week. Week we get a little bit smarter and have more fun and, And.

And, you know, so going after it every week, trying to be smart with business and make the best thing you can possibly do while raising children and making sure to get out of the water and show your children yourself what it is and why we're all doing this.

Marvin Cash
00:30:07

Very neat. And so you got tired of being cold in the wintertime and you moved to Florida a couple years ago.

How has that changed or influenced your work at Cody's Fish?

Cody Richardson
00:30:20

Well, so, yeah, I decided to make the big change from Colorado. You know, things were. Things were changing in Colorado a little bit, and it was just time for me to. To make a change in my life.

I'll always be a huge fan of trout. There's some people that move to the saltwater and they make, you know, say, poo poo trout. They're still the best.

One of the best fish to ever catch on a fly rod. Absolutely. Always love them. But out here, yeah, you know, I mean, it's. It's absolutely changed things. I love the change. People are wonderful.

The fishing is incredible. And for the most part, I would say the big change is like all these other type of pieces I would have never thought to make.

I think I mentioned earlier hogfish, for instance, and, you know, in my room. I'm sorry, I'm in my shop and I have all my silhouettes on the wall.

So I'm just kind of sitting in my chair looking at different silhouettes of things I probably wouldn't have made before. But, yeah, hogfish is one. A lobster, for instance. You know, different things like that, that, you know, plegic species like grouper.

I never thought how much I would love catching a grouper because I've always been into the. The big three when it comes to salt water. You know, the bonefish, permanent tarpon, man, grouper are amazing fish to catch.

And so I've been making those and shark and. And, you know, wahoo, the whole deal. So a lot of those. And then a lot of the colors, too.

And, you know, just the Florida getting the greens, these lighter colors that a lot of people like around here. Kind of trying to make things for the places I love.

Marvin Cash
00:32:04

Very cool. Do you have any other projects Cody, you want to, you know, share with our listeners?

Cody Richardson
00:32:11

Oh gosh, let me see here. Well, right now working on. I've been doing a lot of sports teams pieces in the last few days.

Been a, you know, a lot higher detail type stuff than sometimes what I do. But they've been turning out really cool. They're fun, so love those. What else?

I just made a piece, I think we could probably sing it now because by the time I this goes live that they'll probably have received it by now. But I just did a piece for Turtle Box Audio, really cool piece of one of their speakers. Make sure to check it out if you guys can. It's a cool piece.

And then besides that, it's been a lot of, you know, more of my traditional type stuff. I just came out with a four foot sailfish piece that I absolutely love.

Need to catch one of those things on the fly one at a time because they're such spectacular fish. And this, this four foot version just.

Marvin Cash
00:33:09

Looks really cool, neat. And so, you know, folks wanted to check out your work. Where should they go?

Cody Richardson
00:33:16

Odysfish.com and yeah, that's plural. So. C O D Y-S F-I-S-H.com.

Marvin Cash
00:33:24

Awesome.

Cody Richardson
00:33:25

And you know, yeah, I'm on social media too. Is Cody Richardson's creations on Instagram and I believe it's the same on Facebook also, but probably best on the website.

Marvin Cash
00:33:38

Yeah, and so what I'll do is I'll drop links to all that stuff in the show notes. Cody, nice.

Cody Richardson
00:33:43

Thanks man.

Marvin Cash
00:33:44

Yeah, you bet. And so, you know, I think, I guess one last question before I. We talk about show season stuff, you know, or there. Is there anything else? Kind of.

It doesn't even have to be. Cody, fish related fishing adventures or anything else you want to share with our listeners before I let you go tonight?

Cody Richardson
00:33:59

Yeah, I mean we're all fly fishermen and you know, we get into this sport because we like to work a little bit harder and to, to do things the right way. With that being said, one of the best things that we have with fly fishing is the travel aspect of it.

You know, we can get into fly fishing and so many different angles if you want to get into it.

But with the travel it, I suggest that you guys go out, girls, guys, whoever you are and travel to some of these places because we have such a wonderful benefit of being able to see the world in a different perspective than the average traveler gets to do.

And I just think it's the neatest thing for you guys to be Able to, you know, us, all of us be able to go to, you know, Bolivia, Argentina, Bahamas, Stateside, Louisiana, you know, Florida, all these places and see it from an angler where you could, you know, either go, you know, fish it without a lodge or go to a lodge where you get to know the, the people that are working it and get to know, you know, the captains that are working there, all that type of stuff. A really amazing opportunity that we have that 99% of the other population doesn't have. Yeah.

Marvin Cash
00:35:29

And it's also a great way to make the wintertime go a little bit faster. Planning a trip when it gets warm, right?

Cody Richardson
00:35:35

Oh, gosh, absolutely.

And if you've, like myself if you, you know, I grew up as a trout fisherman and if you ever want any advice about how to get into saltwater fishing, please reach out to me. But my first thing I'll say is, you know, basically two things.

Either go to the Bahamas going for bonefish or go to Louisiana in the winter time for redfish. They're both amazing trips. I'd probably kind of go more towards the Bahamas if you can do it, but because it's just the most amazing experience.

But it's something that is just like it will change your life for the better and it's only a good thing.

Marvin Cash
00:36:21

Absolutely.

And I know we, we spoke before we started recording and you're not folks won't see you this year at the fly fishing shows, but you've got some other kind of more local events kind of around Florida that you're going to do. So if folks wanted to catch up with you in Florida, where should they go?

Cody Richardson
00:36:39

Yeah, so I've been doing the fly fishing show for about 10 years. Absolutely love that show and I plan on being back to it next year.

I actually kind of accidentally double booked myself into where I'm doing this Quest for the Crest Sailfish tournament this year that is overlapping on the same days. But I'm going to be at some of the other art shows, you know, down on Isle of Marada and such.

So some of the more local ones down in Naples and, and things like that here and then. But next year I'll be back at the fly fishing shows.

Marvin Cash
00:37:14

Got it. And so for the more local events, is that. Or do you have an event page on your website or is it best to just follow you on social media?

Cody Richardson
00:37:22

Nope, that's a really good idea. But social media will definitely have them.

Marvin Cash
00:37:25

There you go. Well, listen, Cody, I super appreciate you spending some time with me this evening. Absolutely.

Cody Richardson
00:37:31

Marvin. No My pleasure. It's great to speak to you. Thank you. And everyone, thank you so much.

Marvin Cash
00:37:36

Take care.

Cody Richardson
00:37:38

You too, bud. Cheers.

Marvin Cash
00:37:40

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