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Podcast: Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Episode: How to Choose Drift Boat Oars with Derek Young (Drift Boat Series Ep. 5)
Description: Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/185 Derek Young from Sawyer Paddles and Oars describes the steps to choosing drift boat oars with a comparison between natural and composite. Derek describes the square top oar vs the smoker bandit and why you would go with either of these. Lots of analogies to help clarify today including the golf analogy and the fly rod analogy. We also dig into the history of Sawyer oars and how it all started in 1967 with a hardcore boater, Ralph Sawyer in Michigan, who was a racing champion. Show Notes f...