10 Things I Wish I had Known About Fly-Tying When I Started

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

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🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On the podcast this week I am all by myself--it's a topic I've been asked to address before and didn't require a special guest. It's entitled "10 Things I Wish I had Known About Fly Tying when I Started", and although fly tying is a never-ending journey, I thought I would share some thoughts with listeners with the hope they will pick up on these tips, tricks, and materials quicker than I did--although some of them were not even around when I started tying almost 50 years ago! Also in The Fly Box this week we talk about the "X" system for describing hook shank length, whether to crimp the barbs on saltwater hooks, strategies for filling fly boxes during the winter, when to let a dead fish float away, how to remove the smell of head cement from recently tied flies (a great listener suggestion!), and how to determine which side of a feather is the "shiny" side.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed
0:14.6	fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:20.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast.
0:27.0	This podcast is being recorded on January 30, 2015, day after my daughter's birthday.
0:37.0	We're continuing our series on fly tying, and today my special guest is nobody. I have only me here today
0:49.3	because I had something I wanted to talk about and Lewis Coleman wasn't available.
0:55.8	He actually doesn't want to share any of his fly tying secrets with the podcast listeners. So I going to have to I'm going to have to do it on my own and we do have some some
1:09.2	some non-fly tying stuff in the flybox but we're going to concentrate mostly on fly tying today. So my main
1:17.0	event is going to be 10 things I wish I had known when I started fly tying or in my first few years of fly tying.
1:26.0	Hoping that that'll help some of you on your journey in fly tying and in fly fishing which is you know the reason the
1:34.8	reason we do these podcasts. Howdy Tom this is Brooks from Boulder, Colorado
1:41.1	and I have a couple things. First off, a response to Joe from Charlottesville.
1:46.0	He was saying he had to reel in and walk through the brush a lot and how could he avoid doing that? I don't know if it's a great idea or not, but I take my fly and put it halfway up my
1:58.1	fly rod sometimes or maybe not that far up and then wrap it down towards the bottom of the fly rod around the reel and back forward.
2:07.0	And so I can normally get another 18 inches to 24 inches of line not going through the last or the very top of the fly rod.
2:17.1	So maybe that's a good tip.
2:19.2	If you're careful, it's worked fairly well with me.
2:22.0	My question is about tying and it's despite being beautiful here in
2:29.5	January, I know it's going to get cold, but after that it'll get to be springtime and I wanted to tie as much of my box that I fish with this year.
2:38.0	So what should be on the top of my list for tying stuff for the Rocky Mountains.
2:48.0	Thank you very much.
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