Southern fly fishing, read crooked and loud.
SCOF CAST is a loose, literary, and rough-edged companion to Southern Culture on the Fly. It moves between campsite banter, issue readings, fishing-film shop talk, merch updates, river stories, and oddball devotion to the water.
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SCOF CAST is an unruly audio extension of Southern Culture on the Fly, built for people who think fishing stories should come with side chatter, bad decisions, and a little weather on them. It does not behave like a standard gear-and-tips show. It wanders. Then it finds the river again. Recent episodes alternate between conversational hangouts and Reading Rainbow Trout segments, where stories from the magazine are read aloud with enough texture to feel closer to porch-lit oral tradition than audiobook polish. The readings move through graduation flats, trash-choked water, Christmas memory, bass culture, family inheritance, dating absurdity, and the quiet pull of slowing down on a creek. The talk episodes have a different current. They record from lodges, cabins, events, hotel rooms, and fly-fishing gatherings, letting the place leak into the conversation. There is discussion of the Southeast fly fishing film scene, Watauga River Lodge, Forks Fest, Davidson River, Deerwood Reserve, Blue Ridge Boatworks, shop friends, and small-batch merch logistics. The show is comfortable with inside jokes. It is also willing to get earnest. A remembrance of David Grossman frames him as one of the original two founding members of Southern Culture on the Fly, a photographer, storyteller, writer, guide, tradesman, fisherman, father, and husband whose loss matters to the community around the show. That mix defines SCOF CAST: irreverence without indifference. It can laugh at hotel-room recording schemes, post office shipping routines, fiber jokes, moonshine nights, and fishing culture's own vanity, while still treating rivers, stories, and people as things worth protecting. The South here is not presented as a postcard. It is a living mess of trout water, bass fisheries, TVA currents, chamber moms, guides, trash bags, rain jackets, and hard-won local affection. The show suits listeners who already know the difference between a fly rod and a fishing lifestyle brand, but it does not require reverence. In fact, reverence gets punctured often. That is part of the charm. SCOF CAST understands that outdoor culture can be sincere and ridiculous at the same time.
Made for: For fly anglers, Southern outdoor-media lifers, river people, and listeners who like fishing culture with jokes, grief, gear, and actual place names attached. It especially suits anyone who enjoys magazine-quality outdoor writing without the varnish.
What sets it apart: SCOF CAST blends spoken magazine pieces with loose field-table conversation, so it lands somewhere between literary fishing journal, shop hang, and road-weary event recap. Its edge comes from specificity: Southern waters, small creative logistics, community rituals, and stories that treat fishing minutiae like folklore.
You have found the SCOFcast. A podcast by the creators of Southern Culture on the Fly magazine. SCOF is the collective voice of a community that is reverent, keen, and ridiculously fun. SCOF is not a Pickleball court or a golf tournament or an online magazine……not just a magazine anyway. We are the water tower on which the flyfishing south spray paints its name. We are a chameleon that is equal parts hard-core and half assed. We are a diesel pump of homegrown creative energy that you will find nowhere else in this industry. Community!Southerncultureonthefly.com
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Magazine storytelling becomes vivid audio here, with fly-fishing scenes, ecological questions and personal memories carried by attentive narration.
SCOF CAST turns fly-fishing magazine pieces into spoken stories, preserving the writing's eye for character, landscape and the strange complications of life near the water.
A fly-fishing magazine climbs into your headphones with muddy boots and fried-chicken energy.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fly-fishing magazine mix of stories, author readings, gear talk, and a moving tribute.
Scofcast's "Reading Rainbow Trout" folds stories, writer-read readings, a gear review, and a tribute to David Grossman into one loose magazine-style conversation. The opening remembrance gives the episode real weight before it returns to a more playful, unruly rhythm.
Deerwood stop blends event support, merch logistics, and shop-worn humor into a loose, lived-in hour.
Pedro DePermit and Scott Stevenson turn this Deerwood Reserve stop into a mix of practical support and easygoing history. The talk moves from a garden anxiety update into help for Headwaters and Davidson River, with Deerwood carrying extra weight because Scott has long known it…
River grime, dry humor, and a late turn toward community give the cleanup story real weight.
SCOF Cast treats a river cleanup as a small, watchful piece of river lore. Pedro DiPermit notices the trash, snakes, floating styrofoam, and riverbank debris without losing the jokes or the comic self-mythology, so the episode stays lively instead of solemn.
A shaggy fly-fishing monologue that swings from Hopper the dog to Bassapalooza.
Pedro DiPermit turns this reading into a deliberately bumpy riff on pride, dog chaos, and fishing life. It starts as a bathroom-listener experiment on Southern Culture on the Fly, then keeps widening into a vainglorious wish for an audience and a monologue that circles reading,…
Outdoor talk from the camp table.
Trail miles, gear sense, and outdoor memory.
Garage talk for the slow trail crowd.
SCOF CAST's Ep.19 examines Bartram's bass, formally described as Micropterus puck puggy, with guide Leland Martin and Clemson fisheries researcher Colby Dennison.
Scoffcast opens issue 58 with a tribute to David Grossman, one of the original two founding members of Southern Culture on the Fly.
Deerwood Reserve sets the table.
Pedro DiPermit opens with a sponsor read that leans into how absurd it sounds.
Pedro the Permit reads a story about the potency of well-curated Christmas gifts on the Scoff podcast.
The host and a guest discuss recording a podcast at the Watauga River Lodge, reflecting on recovery and smallmouth fishing, with a sponsor segment for Scientific Anglers.
Pedro DiPermit opens by mocking the idea of perfect reading and turns the podcast into a bumpy oral experiment.
A roundtable discussion about the state of the fly fishing film industry in the southeastern United States, recorded after a day of bass fishing.
The hosts celebrate the 50th issue of their podcast with a group discussion from an Embassy Suites hotel room.
Hank and his friends introduce themselves and discuss the Southern Striper Open fishing event.
The hosts of the Scoff Cast introduce themselves and discuss the magazine's latest issue at the Atlanta Fly Fishing Show.
A trailer introducing the Scoff Podcast, a creative and irreverent fly fishing community podcast from the creators of Southern Culture on the Fly magazine.