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1. Fantastic Show! The best I have seen since the days of American Outdoorsman. A great host and narrator, fantastic cinematography all the while capturing the true essence of the fly fishing experience including the surroundings, the history, the wildlife and the friendships made.

   A true work of art. You have raised the bar on fly fishing shows. Keep up the great work.

   Jack Carlton
   Concord, MA

   Comment by Jack Carlton — July 24, 2009 @ 12:37 pm

2. Friday July 24 2009

   Wow I just watched my first program, Grande Rhonde. I really enjoyed it. I am 66 years old and have been paying for a reckless life as a lineman and reserve cop both careers running more than 30 years at the same time.

   I get to do a little fly fishing now and then when I am up to it around the Phoenix area. I may never be able to go to the wonderful places you go to, but you bring them right up to my lazyboy.

   You film them just as I would have lived them with the history, scenery and wild life just as I would have looked for if I were there.

   The fly recipes are a added bonus, I now have more flies than I will ever use and poor as they are, most kids and inexperienced fisherperson seem to like receiving them as the price is right.

   I tie more than I will ever use but they are nice dreams as is your programs. Keep going to the great places and we will live them over your shoulder.

   Thanks again

   JK

   Comment by John A. Kennedy — July 24, 2009 @ 4:14 pm

3. Nice to see a show with sponsors that does’nt treat there program like an Informercial. Thatz rare these dayz. Please keep up the good work!!!!

   Comment by Robert Bruch — July 27, 2009 @ 9:54 am

4. Great show and I really enjoyed the Alaska episode, a nice precursor to my upcoming trip there!

   Comment by troutdawg — August 1, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

5. Great show, I watch it religiously every Sunday in Juneau, AK. I’ve learned to tie flies by watching your fly recipe videos. Also, nice diversity of fly fishing techniques between the northwest states. I’m waiting for your online shop to open! Press on.

   Comment by Rick Rodriguez — August 16, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

6. man what a great website but I was wondering whether ya’ll were interested in warmwater fly fishing and if ya’ll are then maybe can ya’ll make a few warmwater fly recipes and can ya’ll maybe consider doing some warmwater fly fishing shows? THIS WEBSITE IS THE BEST PLACE TO BLOG THAT I HAVE SEEN IN MAY LONG DAYS OF BLOGING LOL

   Comment by Tobias Jackson Jr. — August 17, 2009 @ 8:52 am

7. Hi Greg,
   I love Seasons on the Fly. Best fishing show ever! The cinematography is really awesome. You really put pride into your work! Thanks for posting the fly recipes. I plan on tying a few “Franks” and trying them here in Michigan. We have an incredible Steelhead fishery here. I’ve caught at least 20 Skamamia’s this month all in the 10-12lb range. What an incredible thrill! I hope to fish the Situk River someday. Anyway, thanks for fueling my fly fishing addiction…

   Comment by Aaron Burch — August 18, 2009 @ 12:14 am

8. Hello Greg,
   Love the show! I have been looking for a hobby again. I use to Fly Fish when I was younger and thank’s to your show I now have the bug (yuck, yuck) again! I am looking forward to catching up an all of your shows. Any chance of you doing any shows in or around the Portland suburb area’s?

   Comment by Michael Kolb — August 19, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

9. Love the show guys, I live in Royal City, in Eastern Wa, and when I saw the Spring Creeks episode I nearly died. It looks just like my backyard. I fish the Yakima on a weekly basis, and fish the bass lakes all around my home. Love the show, it is about time somebody did a fly fishing show that was done right! And the website is just as good. Love the tying section. If anyone wants to point me in the direction of a good spring creek that is not Rocky Ford, that is in my area, let me know. Watch For That Subtle Take!

   Comment by Nate Rowley — August 29, 2009 @ 5:16 pm

10. I have been watching the show for some months now and every episode leaves me inspired, itching to throw a fly or two, and definately a bit jealous. I live in boise Idaho and am surrounded by some beautiful scenery and great fishing. I am an old grad of coach Few’s Basketball camps and have met you a time or two as a teenager, had i known you were a fisherman I probably would of picked your brain a lot more than just the back door on a low post. Have you ever thought about some of our high mountain lakes? Great cutties, and most all of them are dumb, but the scenery and areas cant be beat!! You have a loyal fan and i cannot wait to see what else you come up with. Thanks for the great shows and fish of a lifetime Greg.. Hope to see you back in are neck of the woods!!

    Comment by Brian Burt — August 29, 2009 @ 6:15 pm

11. Best fishing show on TV – bar none! I’m saving all of the episodes on my DVR so I can go back and watch them anytime for an inspiration. Love the website as well – especially the video fly tying recipes. Have you considered adding some instructional videos on casting, mending, etc? Eagerly awaiting the next episode on Versus HD.

    Comment by Bob Sheldon — September 7, 2009 @ 2:27 pm

12. Your site is a big help don’t know wear to start. Ive been tying now for 4 -5 years been fishing for most of my life I read a lot about tying but this is just like sitting by you . You are a big help to me thank you agin .

    Comment by van burrows — September 11, 2009 @ 7:53 am

13. Greg excellent program. A show that is a hundred percent better than any other show on the circuit today. A guides show for guides. Every shot is as though you are there. A show a beginning fly fisher can enjoy and learn.

    Comment by Dan Curtis — September 20, 2009 @ 1:27 pm

14. Love your show. Wondering if you ever go fly fishing with any women? The same group of cronies keep showing up show after show, and while they catch awesome fish (and that’s really great!), I feel like I’m watching home buddy movies sometimes (with voice-over and dramatic music). Maybe you could mix it up and feature a woman fly fisher-person once in a while.

    This is a great sport for all ages and I think your show should reflect that. I’ve just started and I’m going to be 58 this year. It’s something I can still do with two artificial knees and arthritis. It’s fun, beautiful, and (once I learn the proper way to hook the dang fish), rewarding, and peaceful. Waiting to see where you go next …

    Marie

    Comment by Marie — October 4, 2009 @ 11:31 am

15. Wish you could leave contact information on all the programs you do so we could contact the Outfitters if we were interested in a trip
    thanks
    Love your show.

    Comment by Gene — October 10, 2009 @ 6:21 am

16. Greg,

    I’m planning a trip to Washington this spring. My family lives in the Colville. Can you point me in the direction of some good places to fish in that area?

    Thanks
    Aaron Burch

    Comment by Aaron Burch — October 12, 2009 @ 3:58 pm

17. Great show on the Stikine in Alaska. I need some information on sails in Costa Rica. Who to contact there for a guide??? EY

    Comment by Eric Young — October 18, 2009 @ 11:26 am

18. seasons on the fly is great but I wish it was on more often.

    Comment by Andrew p — October 18, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

19. lookin good and having fun!!!

    Comment by eggs — October 20, 2009 @ 11:44 pm

20. I’ve fished some of the water you’ve featured. You do a great job capturing their essence. I especially appreciate that fact that you don’t beat us over the head with tackle advertisements. Keep up the good work and give some thought to early season steelhead on the clearwater.

    Comment by Eric Dawes — November 8, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

21. I have been fishing for seventy years, most of it with a fly. I find your narration of the sport the most intesterting of all that I have ever seen. I see you once in a while at various locations. Maybe sometime we’ll swap stories. Keep up the good work you are interesting fellow.

    Tight lines

    Flyrod3

    Comment by flyrod3 — November 17, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

22. this show is awsome. i love this show . i wait all week for it. i love that you guys catch rainbows but i would love to see am episode of catching some big kings.

    Comment by josh — November 20, 2009 @ 6:40 pm

23. Wow the cinematography, the post production mixing, the editing yeah this totally kicks ass!!! But anyway as i just randomly read the reviews, there was someone quoting about fishing with a lady! well how bout doing a feature on the yuba which is a self sustained non stocked no hatchery river which thrives full of bows, steelies and kings. Or how bout the upper sacramento river in redding ca. which almost had all of its trout population wiped out when a train carrying some hazardous liquid wrecked and the car carrying the liquid went into the river!. But now!!!! Its been totally revived and its off the hook!! theres more wild native trout then hatchery!! But anyway just a few places to recommend and since youd be in the neighborhood! what about stopping by and saying hi to the powell’s?? and well HEY!!!! their ya go I know the wife can throw flies just as good if not better then the husband of powell fly rods and she could be a feature! ANYWAY i could keep rambling on with ideas for the show But the storm has passed and its been 24 hours now and the sun just peaked!!! So hey Im off to the feather for some steelie action!!!! Oh yeah I didnt get to finish going through your recipes but if you have any popcicles or marabou’s or carabous Please POST THEM!!!!! totally need them!!! but if posted already sorry! like i said i didnt get to finish the recipe section!! ne way g2g have to get on the river while the sun is still out!!!!!

    Comment by the_bells — November 21, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

24. Nice show! Although,you probably should leave the name of some of the streams that you fish off the mainstream radar. I Truly believe the name of the JJ Special derived from The Oxford cafe in Missoula, MT. The color of the fly is very similar to the “JJ Special Sauce” you can order on top of the chicken fried steak. The dish is legendary in Missoula along w/ their brains and eggs. I highly reccomend the place and it is open 24 hours, great for early rise anglers and hunters. Compare the Oxford to the M&M cafe in Butte MT.

    Comment by Upland Angler — November 23, 2009 @ 10:30 am

25. I live in central Alberta. The North Sask. River runs through my town. Would you consider a show on that river? I really enjoy your shows, They are very informative. Thanks alot guys and crew.

    Comment by Bill Taylor — December 6, 2009 @ 7:59 am

26. I study your episodes….awesome. My son plays football for the Vandals to I get to hit the clear water in the fall before games, makes for quite a day in central Idaho……..suggest Clearwater episode!

    Comment by Brent Ross — December 17, 2009 @ 11:20 am

27. really informative, and terreific cammera work, and unusually great streams shown. how do you book the guids/ rivers? thanks very much

    Comment by jay henselen — January 4, 2010 @ 12:27 pm

28. best show ever,realy makes me want to go back to colorado and wyoming for some more fly fishing. I even might go to the red for some winter brown fishing, keep up the great show ……troutmannone.

    Comment by Loran Blanchard — January 4, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

29. I love the show and the wepsite. It is awsome. I like to see how the flys are made and used. My fav is the brassie for whare I live. I go down to the creek where I live and catch bluegill, sunfish, really big minnows, babybass, and a few others. Practice for the rainbow when i get a chance to go to the white river by my grandfathers house and the bear river down by and in Arkansas. Thank you for making a web site this awsome.

    Comment by michael McCale — January 12, 2010 @ 9:43 am

30. I ‘ve seen you show for the first time and had to go to your website, I am just after all these years getting into fly fishing I love the fly recipes it makes tying so much simpler when you see it being done even if most of the flies are from the west I sure some can be used in the east like the Thundercreek using different colors. (best website ever)

    Comment by Walter from PA — January 12, 2010 @ 2:07 pm

31. Best show to date, for the fly fisher outstanding website to boot still learning the art of fly fishing every day and this show has the best in HD fishing, come to Okanogan to Lake Chopka the states best fly fishing lake. Keep up the great work, an keep those how to ty flies coming.

    Comment by Gary from Okanogan — January 15, 2010 @ 5:31 am

32. Wonderful show, love the website. How about doing a show or two for some of us beginners out here? I’m talking everything from attaching the line to the reel, knots involved, casting techniques, including reeling in the big one! Your fly recipes provided great motivation for me to get back in to tying like I did with my son when he was smaller. Also if you provide a method to upload some of our finished products, we could share our winners/and losers.

    Fish on Brother, fish on

    Comment by s-man — January 25, 2010 @ 3:35 pm

33. MAN I LOVE THIS SHOW,IM A AVID STEELHEAD/SALMON FISHERMAN FROM MICHIGAN, I WOULD LOVE TO FISH WITH HEISTER AND LEARN FROM HIM.BEST SHOW FOR FLY BUMS ON THE MRKT.THINKS FROM ON THE SWING OUTFFITERS.

    Comment by SCOTT BROTHERTON — October 20, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

34. Itd to bad your off the tv Irealy injoyed your show. Ialso learned a lot from your show. thank you very much Melvin Bill

    Comment by melvin bill — November 22, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

35. Well, I guess Greg ran out of water or sponsors or interest in the show because now all that is aired on Versus are repeats of a half dozen shows. I assume that there is a problem between Greg and Versus and until that is ironed out, the viewers and sponsors are stuck with the repeats and that’s too bad for the best fly-fishing series on TV.

    This series is great because we are not beat up with a bunch of basic fly-fishing how-tos but instead given a solid presentation how great sport this really is and a superb description and history of each divinely inspired arena that it’s played in. Not that we all couldn’t use a how-to now and then, but save them for a beginners show. Instead, let’s keep this show, our show, for the folks that have or will have lived many Seasons on the Fly. Good Luck Greg.

    Comment by Bart Luce — November 30, 2010 @ 5:57 am

36. Hello Bart –

    And Hello all – I appreciate your appetite for more shows. They are coming! I have spent the better part of 2010 shooting shows and searching for sponsors. We have re-signed with Versus for 2011 and season 2 will begin in December. And then the new shows will be dispersed throughout the upcoming year. It is our goal to shoot 15-20 shows a year and of course it will take time to build them. So I appreciate your patience and I hope you enjoy what season 2 has to offer. The 13th of December enjoy some Atlantic Salmon fishing from Iceland and then some trout fishing on Montana’s Missouri River on the 20th. And again I appreciate your viewership. Greg Heister

    Comment by Greg Heister — November 30, 2010 @ 11:52 am

37. Thanks Greg for your timely response full of good news. We’re looking forward to the new shows and, oh yes, …you are the man.

    Good job,

    Bart

    Comment by Bart Luce — December 1, 2010 @ 10:32 am

38. Greg, glad to see the new shows starting. The Laxa’ I’ adalal (spell?) area of Iceland is beautiful and who wouldn’t love 20lb salmon. That place might make the “bucket list.” Good show.

    Bart

    Comment by Bart Luce — December 14, 2010 @ 5:33 am

39. Heister needs to stop with the nervous laughter when he hooks up. Its annoying and distracting. Otherwise a top-notch show and beautifully shot.

    Comment by Mark — January 7, 2011 @ 9:39 am

40. What a wonderful program ! Not only do I get my Flyfishing fix while sitting on my couch, I learn a great deal of information and locations for future trips. I hope you continue the good work. Thanks greg!

    Comment by Phil Hiromerides — January 11, 2011 @ 10:22 pm

41. Great program everyone!
    Pretty hard watching the episodes in January in Wisconsin when it is below zero out.
    You guys should look at doing a show in the Driftless area of Wisconsin. Wisconsin has over 10,000 miles of trout water loaded with wild brooks, browns, tigers and bows.
    This area has really started to get a reputation as a world class fishery. You will have dozens of spring creeks within 30 minutes of Madison, WI. Small and Medium water is the norm.

    Comment by Mike Johnson — January 25, 2011 @ 6:45 pm

42. Was interested in floating the Upper Elk River in pontoon boats above the town of Elkford. Does anyone have any information on this stretch? Would appreciate any information. Love the show, my favorite show on TV. Thanks.

    Comment by Michael Scribneer — June 19, 2011 @ 11:39 am

43. what a great show.i truly escape from the real world for that half hour.just took up fly fishing this past summer.been fishing for 45 years.your show is truly the best i have ever watched.keep me dreaming,thanks

    Comment by sean hamel — January 14, 2012 @ 9:38 am

44. I really look fwd to your tv show and your web site is “very” informative. I enjoy looking over the different fly tying videos.
    Keep up the good work.

    Comment by jim ritter — February 11, 2012 @ 6:35 am

45. Greg- hope your visit to Alaska and the Iditarod goes well! Be careful of frost bite- you will need all your fingers toes to fight and keep up with our 20-35lb+ Atlantics next year on the Restigouche! We really appreciate that you are coming in June. I am Really looking forward to the week with you! Keith Vanacore- Restigouche River Lodge, New Brunswick CA.

    Comment by Keith Vanacore — March 1, 2012 @ 5:47 pm

46. Awesome site, if I never get to fly fish again I’ll enjoy watching you guys.

    Great Job

    Thanks

    Comment by Kirk Singleton — May 18, 2012 @ 9:15 pm

47. FANTASTIC SHOW, MAKES ME WANT TO BREAK OUT MY FLY TIEING EQUIPMENT. LOVED THE FISHING AT BAJA. LOVE TO HAVE YOU DO A SHOW HERE IN TEXAS. HOW ABOUT THE PORT ARTHUR AREA. I PLAN ON A TRIP THERE IN FUTURE AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU THERE.

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