Building Community through Pig Farming

It was the next episode up on The Fly Tapes podcast during my long commute to work: Jay Johnson. I’d never heard of the dude, but the previous 12 episodes had been a good time so I clicked the “play” button.

Adrienne Barnett prepares to tie a San Juan worm in the Iron Fly blindfold challenge.
Photo by Aaron Reed

The story (published in The Fly Fish Journal) that host Jason Rolfe read, and the interview that followed, stunned me. I listened again. And then I texted and emailed the link to my...