671 | Choosing the Best Fly Line with Josh Jenkins - Scientific Anglers, Fly Fishing Gear, Permit Fishing
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Have you ever been confused about how to choose the best fly line for your next fly rod? Did you know that line companies typically overweight lines out of the box to help us out? And are you interested in learning about the process of getting the perfect line for the exact situation you will be fishing this year? Today, we take a trip back into Scientific Anglers, so you have a clear path of selecting the best and perfect line for your next big trip this season.
Josh Jenkins, R&D manager at Scientific Anglers will shed light on what's new this season and some of their best-selling fly lines. You're going to get some background on the core and the coating and understand how this will help you understand which lines to choose. You're going to discover how to match the leader with your fly line and why the leader is essentially just a mini fly line. We're going to get into that today and we're also going to find out how and why you should be choosing the fly line first and matching your rod to the fly line. Better put, we're going to show you why fly leader line rod and reel is the order you should follow. Josh clarifies it all today.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/671
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever been confused about how to choose the best fly line for your next fly rod? |
| 0:06.0 | Did you know that line companies typically overweight lines out of the box to help us out? |
| 0:11.0 | And are you interested in learning about the process of getting the perfect line for the exact situation you will be fishing this year? |
| 0:18.0 | Today we take a trip back into scientific anglers so you have a clear path of selecting the best and perfect line for your next big trip this season. This is the wet fly swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish we all love. Hey, I'm Dave, host of the |
| 0:37.5 | Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a little |
| 0:41.5 | fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country. I've also |
| 0:46.0 | interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers and R&D program managers than just about |
| 0:51.8 | anyone out there. Josh Jenkins, R&D manager at |
| 0:56.0 | Scientific Anglers, will shed light on what's new this season and some of their best |
| 1:00.0 | selling fly lines. You're going to get some background on the core and the coding and |
| 1:05.5 | understand how this will help you understand which lines to choose. You're going to |
| 1:09.4 | discover how to match the leader with your flyline and why the leader is essentially just a mini fly choose. You're going to discover how to match the leader with |
| 1:11.9 | your fly line and why the leader is essentially just a mini fly line. We're going to get into that |
| 1:15.5 | today. And we're also going to find out how and why you should be choosing the fly line first |
| 1:21.7 | and matching your rod to the fly line. Better put, we're going to show you why fly leader line, line, rod, and reel is the order you should follow. |
| 1:31.0 | Josh clarifies it all today. |
| 1:32.7 | Here we go. |
| 1:33.6 | A trout fisherman from Idaho turned into a Michigan warm water fisherman and has a passion for permit. |
| 1:39.9 | Josh Jenkins from Scientificanglers.com. |
| 1:43.7 | How you doing, Josh? |
| 1:45.0 | I'm doing well, Dave. |
| 1:46.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
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