Fly Fisherman's Loop to Loop Podcast, Season 1, Episode 17: Paul Dixon

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Uploaded: 1/1/1900 12:00:00 AM
Duration: 1 h 24 min 41 s
Description: One of the most versatile, experienced saltwater guides of all time, Capt. Paul Dixon has spent decades fishing from Long Island to the Upper Keys, throughout the Caribbean and around the world.

Capt. Paul Dixon has spent decades fishing from Long Island to the Upper Keys, throughout the Caribbean and around the world.

November 21, 2025 By Fly Fisherman Staff

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One of the most versatile, experienced saltwater guides of all time, Capt. Paul Dixon has spent decades fishing from Long Island to the Upper Keys, throughout the Caribbean and around the world. He caught his first striped bass in the 1970s in Newport Beach, California, he is a pioneer in East Coast sight-fishing for striped bass, a recipient of the 2022 Lefty Kreh Award for Lifetime Achievement in Conservation, and 2021 recipient of the Izaak Walton Award from the American Museum of Fly Fishing.

One of our favorite stories in this episode is a retelling of when Flip Pallot, Bob Popovics, and Paul Dixon filmed an episode of The Walker’s Cay Chronicles together. Three legends!

Dixon was also the technical advisor on the fishing scenes in the new movie Looking Through Water, which is now streaming on Amazon, Apple TV, Google play, DIRECTV, and others. The star of the movie is Michael Douglas, but look for Paul Dixon and a cast of other famous fishing guides.

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00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:58.290: Hi, I'm Ross Purnell, editor and publisher of Fly Fisherman magazine. Welcome to Loop to Loop. It's a show where we make deeper connections with the people behind the magazine. We're sponsored today are Patagonia. Patagonia has a great new line of waders out. They're called Swiftcurrent Waders. They have an Expedition and Traverse model. They've been reseamed and re-patterned so that they're easier to repair. They're super comfortable, super durable. And the thing I really love is how they work with the Stealth Switch Packs. They've got a system where you can clip the PLA packs right onto the suspenders of the waders or onto the belt of the waders. And the waders just work really great with the packs, so check those out.

00:00:58.290 --> 00:01:23.040: We're also sponsored today by G. Loomis, American-made rods made in Woodland, Washington. I've been using Loomis rods for probably 20 years. I got started on them from my friend Steve Rajeff who is the best tournament caster of all time today. And today I've got Asquith, NRX+ and IMX Pro rods in my quiver for different situations, different species, everything from salt water to Spey casting. So check those out.

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00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:33.720: Our guest today, we are very fortunate to have with us in the studio today, captain Paul Dixon, who is a legendary fly fishing guide who I have heard about and known for a couple of decades anyways, and he's also was very influential in the making of the new movie, Looking Through Water. We're grateful to have you here with us today.

00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:55.620: Great to be here. Thanks, Ross. Appreciate all the kind words. There's a lot of things we need to dive into today. Okay. Everything from California to New York to Florida, all across the country and all across the world. And we're probably gonna hear some crazy wild fishing stories.