Loop to Loop

The official podcast of Fly Fisherman, the leading magazine of fly fishing since 1969.

Loop to Loop is a sports podcast hosted by Ross Purnell, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ross Purnell hosts Loop to Loop, a sports show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  Anita Coulton and her journey to becoming a top guide on an old-school match-the hatch fishery

  Oct 1, 202657 minS1

  Anita Coulton found her calling to be a guide over a decade ago and hasn't looked back since. Navigating the most technical dry-fly fishery in the East, the fabled Upper Delaware river, she pursues its notoriously difficult wild rainbow and brown trout. She works as an Orvis Endorsed Guide for Cross Current Outfitters alongside the legendary Joe Demalderis. She and editor Ross Purnell discuss the prolific hatches of sulphurs, blue quills, grannom caddis, Hendricksons, Isonychias, and more in the proverbial "bug soup" of the Delaware's West Branch tailwater. She dives into her admiration and respect for Cathy Beck and how she inspired her to be a guide, her involvement in the film "Legacy: The Story of Cathy and Barry Beck," and how women are shaping the future of fly fishing. When she's not in her drift boat she hosts trips to Mexico, Patagonia, and the Amazon.

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  Episode #39

  Raking spawning beds for wild brown trout and coaching Olympic snowboarding with Neil Sunday

  Sep 17, 20261h 3mS1

  Neil Sunday hails from the historic Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. He is a former Olympic snowboarding coach and a full-time guide and owner at neilsundayflyfishing.com for trout, smallmouth bass, and the potamodromous fish of the Great Lakes . An active conservationist with Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited (pacvtu.org), he organizes and leads the FITS crew (Feet in the Stream) to clean and rake spawning beds for spawning wild brown trout in the famous LeTort Spring Run. Learn about the Limestone legends Vince Marinaro and Charlie Fox, their contributions to fly fishing and how their conservation ethics and teachings have been passed down to the new generation of stewards like Sunday.

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  Episode #38

  John Arway and his science-based mission to "Let Nature Raise the Fish"

  Sep 3, 20261h 15mS1

  John Arway is a scientist by training. In 1984 he graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Aquatic Biology in 1984. He dedicated his entire career to carrying out the mission of the PA Fish and Boat Commission and for 20 years was chief of the Environmental Services Division after which he became the Executive Director of the Commission until 2018. As Executive Director, John steadfastly promoted a "Resource First" and "Protect, Conserve, and Enhance" fisheries conservation approach in leading the agency. Ross Purnell sat down with him on this episode of Loop to Loop to compare and contrast Montana with Pennsylvania, and explain how Dick Vincent and his discoveries about wild trout in Montana decades ago led that state to prioritize wild fish, while Pennsylvania even in 2026 continues to dump stocked trout in streams with well-documented populations of wild trout. Ross and John also discuss a brand-new conservation organization, of which John is a founding member: the Pennsylvania Wild Trout Coalition (https://pawtc.org). Their mission is to stop the state from stocking trout in class A wild trout streams, and their motto is "Let Nature Raise the Fish."

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  Episode #35

  Mike Komara on competitive fly fishing. and the 2026 Fly Fishing Team USA World Anglers

  Aug 20, 20261h 16mS1

  Mike Komara is a 2026 World Angler for Fly Fishing Team USA. He is also the owner and head guide for Innovative Angline (www.innovativeangling.com), an educator, and a team bronze medalist in the 2025 FIPS Mouche Fly Fishing Championships in the Czech Republic. He shares how competitive fly fishing works, how team members are chosen, and who is one the 2026 USA team that is competing in the 45 th FIPS-Mouche World Championships in Idaho Falls is September. He recently filmed an instructional video on the Flip Cast, a resourceful and easy cast when Euro nymping in tight quarters with micro-leaders.

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  Episode #36

  Chris Wood, TU President and CEO on Rescinding the Ruleless Rule and the Impact of Data Centers

  Aug 6, 202657 minS1

  Perhaps no one is better qualified to talk about the Roadless Rule than Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the years the rule was developed and implemented. And now TU is fighting to keep the 2001 common-sense practice in place to protect America's best fishing for wild, native trout and salmon. Not only do these roadless, headwater areas contain the last strongholds of native trout, they have some of the best hunting in America. And they provide cold, headwater flows for the bigger rivers close to roads. Chris Wood and Ross Purnell also tackle the issue of data centers and Trout Unlimited's new policy paper on them. If you want to know how the country's largest coldwater conservation organization is working to take on the most important threats of 2026, you need to listen to this podcast or watch the YouTube version shot on location at TU headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

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