Chuck Ragan
Fly fishing tour guideInterviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job • April 14, 2025
How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene Point Blank looks at how musicians split their time, and how their careers influence their music (or how their music provides escape). In this edition, we caught up with Chuck Ragan, known as the gruffest voice of Hot Water Music and an impressive solo career. Besides music, Ragan is also a professional angler and fishing guide. Scene Point Blank: First, the basics. You are a fishing guide, is that your job title? Chuck Ragan: Yes. I’m a fly fishing guide and instructor. The vast majority of my trips are fly fishing but have always been set up to accommodate conventional anglers as well. Scene Point Blank: What does that mean in relation to your role at Cast Hope? Chuck Ragan: When I began guiding I started working with Cast Hope. I’d fallen in love with the cause and the mission of sharing the outdoors with youth and their mentors to help with awareness of our waterways and the importance of connecting with Mother Nature. Scene Point Blank: Do you guide people on rivers, primarily? Are you a boat captain as well? Chuck Ragan: I’m mostly working in rivers, yes, but also work in a number of our foothill lakes and reservoirs in Northern California. Some of the rivers I work are deemed navigable waters in which I have to have a merchant mariners credential, TWIC card and a … Read more
Retirement
Bike ShopInterviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job • March 23, 2025
How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene Point Blank looks at how musicians split their … Read more
Peter Jesperson
Interviews • February 28, 2025
There is perhaps no bigger music fan than Peter Jesperson. His passion for music translated to jumping feet first and not eschewing situations but embracing them, constantly creating, supporting, and … Read more
Channel 3's Mike Magrann
Interviews • February 28, 2025
What's not to love about driving across North American highways in a well-used van, drinking copious amounts of beer, blaring Hall & Oates and passing a well-used copy of Catcher … Read more
