Bent
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Bent
Fishing can be slow. Podcasts about fishing shouldn’t be. That’s why we created Bent, the unapologetic fishing podcast that moves faster than a tournament bass boat but doesn’t take itself near as seriously. Host Joe Cermele welcomes anglers of all backgrounds and interests, from hardcore crappie ji...
Recent Episodes
88 episodes
Ep. 88: Tight Lines, Degenerate Anglers
Grab some fine malt liquor and laugh along with Joe, Hayden, and the mighty Phil as the fellas bid a warm adieu to the podcast that made you feel the...
Ep. 87: Grande Cheese Curd Nymphs
Today on the show we: ride our tuggies into the sunset with a final-ish episode.
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Ep. 86: Spanish Mackerel Pellet Heads
This week, we celebrate opening day by tying every fly in the Wal-Mart trout starter pack on at the same time, ripping a spinner that could battle a s...
Ep. 85: Pump Action Raccoon Streamers
This week, we destroy the lives of old people in the name of great smallmouth fishing, purchase tying thread off a guy that likely stole it in an arme...
Ep. 84: Bucktailing With My Carp Dealer
This week, we travel the globe in Jeff Bezos’ version of the Tuggy sandbox, explain the importance of casting to where the fish are, arm ourselves wit...
Ep. 83: Hickory-Smoked Parachute Pants
This week on “Trout Vest Aficionado,” we shame a young man for his lack of clinch knot skills, pat Timmy on the back for a super duper shad, discuss t...
Ep. 82: Ed’s Skin Mount Transporter
This week, we channel our inner Bob Vila to make everything from college loan payments to the finest spearing decoys, better taxidermy choices to weap...
Ep. 81: Tequila Spot Burn Cream
This week, we boop the nose of a bait-stealing otter, tell you how to tie a little deer-hair cocktail umbrella that won’t impress anyone, help you cho...
Ep. 80: Tip-Up, Mr. Mayor
This week, we set up our shanty in the red light district and go fishing for urban legends, discuss toxic fumes in a pop-up that aren’t just the usual...
Ep. 79: Chuck Sucks At Steelhead Fishing
This week in our beer-fueled Stupor Bowl, we: explore the twisted economics of using Converse All-Stars as flats boots, recommend the Blue Goo when al...
Ep. 78: The First Mate Of Irish Spring
Today on “Lifestyles of the Sad and Fishless” we: Get airborne with Mike Iaconelli and land in the drama pool, say goodbye to the ugliest jerkbait eve...
Ep. 77: Burt Reynolds On Ice
This week on “Failing For Dollars,” we suggest a career move that’ll make you rich off other people’s hardwater idiocy, pose newborn babies with long-...
Ep. 76: Piano Wire and Power Bait
This week in the Amity Island classifieds, we place an ad for 500 unwanted armoured catfish, sell you on stocked steelhead and make a little dough, bu...
Ep. 75: My Crappie Swing Has Mad FG-Force
This week on “Frayed Family Ties,” we: teach your child how to earn an iPod with a knife and a thirst for cod blood, go float-n-fly dunking for suspen...
Ep. 74: Gloves Off, Jet Boat Cowboy
This week on “Fishin’ With Omicron Wilson,” we: take our mittens deep into Brown Town and wipe the place up, slide over a few rock bars in Mad Max’s f...
Ep. 73: Ball Drops and Salmon Alibis
The week, we close out 2021 with a drunken roundtable about severed ears, vow to give the Tasmanian Devil a crack for truck trout, tell our wives we’r...
Ep. 72: Crashing Santa’s Slay-fest
This week, we celebrate Christmas Eve by telling you the best knock-off spinner to jam in your stocking, where to find bass that are all lips and hips...
Ep. 71: Pro Tips For Lizard Lickers
This week on the weigh-in stage, we give Brandon Palanuik a huge fake check just so he’ll hang out with us for a little while, Carl Jocumsen talks abo...
Ep. 70: Pop Go the Spoon Censors
This week on “Breaking Bad Knots,” we: take a deep dive into the dam malfunction that shook the fly world, let the air out of a client’s dream trip wi...
Ep. 69: Nice Carp-skie There, Bud
This week, we head to Canada to learn where leeches come from, confirm that muskies are still “fun as frick” to catch even when they’re too easy, find...
Ep. 68: Shop ‘til Your Float Drops
This week, we’re passing the savings on to you by: missing two salmon for the price of one Razor Scooter, slashing stockers on “Fourth of July” colore...
Ep. 67: Billy Wants A Trout Bead Neck Tat
This week on “Skin & Fish Ink,” we get the word “believe” tattooed over the muskie we’ll probably never catch, pick the perfect shade of nail polish f...
Ep. 66: 300 McLargemouth Happy Meals
On today’s value menu, get: six silica bead packets with the purchase of any muskie fly, two rods for the price of one when you try dead-lifting a car...
Ep. 65: Uncle Wimpy and the Bathtub Walleyes
This week at the roadside shrimp stand, we’ve got mako steaks so big they’ll kill the guy in the Members Only jacket, fresh walleye infused with the e...
Ep. 64: Dam Ghosts At Hell’s Trout Park
This week, we: crank up the horror by asking what’s in the box from the reaper of rainbow souls, getting dangerously close to a neck-snapping fluke, t...
Ep. 63: ZIMA-Fueled Bass Fashion Disasters
With one out and runners on first and third, we: try to distract the batter with a fishing shirt made out of wallpaper from a brothel, and prop spinni...
Ep. 62: Mercury Missile Trotline Tips
In this episode of “It Happened In Florida”, we: find out that K-Swiss sneakers won’t stop stingray barbs, if you ever paid to have a mahi mounted you...
Ep. 61: Hot Dubstep For Bitter Catfishermen
This week on “The Joy Of Painting Jigheads,” we: use broad strokes to count the anal rays of a blurry record fish, dab a little nicotine on our flies...
Ep. 60: Crystal Pepsi Power Worms
This week on “Wicked Tuna FOMO,” we drizzle monkey pee on our dad’s favorite green pumpkin lizard, feed a state-record bonita to something cooler than...
Ep. 59: Throwing Freedom Loops at War Eagles
This week on “Locked Up Abroad While Fishing," we: channel our inner Lefty Kreh to prove we’re not drug smugglers, tell you how much drag pressure you...
Ep. 58: Check Your Bugger Ducks at the Door
This week, we bid a warm passive-aggressive goodbye to our beloved co-host Miles Nolte. Brad Leone caters the farewell party with gas station fugu and...
Ep. 57: Drunk and Disorderly Pastors
On this week’s episode of "Fishing Cabin Confessions," we: remind you to smash the barb on your heel before sticking your foot in your mouth, explain...
Ep. 56: Looking Fly In That Goochie
In this week’s box of stale Lucky Charms, we dig up the issues I have with my father dooming most fishing trips, send in a proof of purchase for some...
Ep. 55: High Hooks In Love Handles
The week on “E.R. For Eel Trappers,” we: stitch up a swimmer that yelled “shark” in Detroit, tell you how buying oranges is the same as going to medic...
Ep. 54: This One Time, At Dolphin Camp. . .
This week, campers, join us for a battery-powered scavenger hunt in blue ribbon trout water, put the Gameboy down long enough to catch a record Chinoo...
Ep. 53: Leave the Mudshark, Take the Cannoli
This week in the Bent Protection Program: Frank Crescitelli explains why he can never show his face in Manhattan, a listener tells you which bar to hi...
Ep. 52: Flogging Pig Meat
This week on the Bent first birthday fishing extravaganza, we: peek behind the curtain on Bob the Garbageman’s intimate home life, learn how the cheap...
Ep. 51: The Tuggy Is The Druggy
This week in “Boat Shopper For Broke People,” we: jump on the Night Hawk with Brad Leone to fill burlap sacks with bluefish, appease the 5,000 fans ma...
Ep. 50: Bottom Bouncer Of Death
This week, we: dig through our ancient first aid kit to find a Band Aid and a raise for an underpaid shark jumper, use good judgement to stop a walley...
Ep. 49: Deep Fried Reading Rainbow Trout
This week on "Intervention For Crank Addicts," we: put nail polish on our smallie candies before popping them, try to figure out what an internet angl...