{"podcast":{"title":"Casting Across Fly Fishing","slug":"casting-across-fly-fishing-651212","podcast_index_feed_id":651212,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/WPCM2733915402","website_url":"http://castingacross.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3cfe8988-4a1b-11ec-8771-cf17dbb6e4f7/image/pc1.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Matthew Lourdeau","episode_count":396,"summary":"The Casting Across Fly Fishing Podcast explores the quarry and the culture of fly fishing. Each episode, I'll discuss some aspect of fly fishing - the people, places, and things that go into the pursuit of fish.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T12:19:51.843016+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/casting-across-fly-fishing-651212"},"episode":{"title":"5 Fly Fishing Book Thoughts","slug":"5-fly-fishing-book-thoughts","published_at":"2026-03-27T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/casting-across-fly-fishing-651212/5-fly-fishing-book-thoughts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/casting-across-fly-fishing-651212","url":"https://castingacross.com/ep-385/","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/WPCM2854072729.mp3","summary":"Recently I hit the \"50\" mark on my fly fishing book review series on YouTube. I've filmed myself doing \"show and tell\" with over 60 books, and it has been a lot of fun. Today on the podcast, I talk about some thoughts (five, to be precise) I have on reading fly fishing books. There is a whole lot more that I could share, but this is a nice little synopsis of some questions I've fielded and some observations I've made. If you haven't yet, subscribe to Casting Across on YouTube. And it goes without saying: get reading! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Recently I hit the \"50\" mark on my fly fishing book review series on YouTube. I've filmed myself doing \"show and tell\" with over 60 books, and it has been…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1304,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/casting-across-fly-fishing-651212/episodes/5-fly-fishing-book-thoughts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/casting-across-fly-fishing-651212/5-fly-fishing-book-thoughts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}