A Case for the Fly Fishing Life, with David Coggins
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week my guest is David Coggins [42:24], author of the new book The Optimist, A Case for the Fly Fishing Life. David is a traditionalist and I give him some good-natured ribbing about being an anachronism, but David handles it well and tells some great stories as well.
In the Fly Box this week, we have lots of questions and tips from listeners, including:
What is the best way to tie a fly for gar and how do I fish for them?
Why did I foul hook two trout in a row on dry flies?
What kind of rum do you prefer?
A great tip from a listener that rubber soles on wading shoes are far preferable to felt in the snow.
A tip from a listener that when urban fly fishing, make sure you look behind you as many people don't know you are flinging a hook through the air.
Do I need to worry about my rod and reel in a car-top carrier in the hot Georgia sun?
A tip from a listener on using heavier nymph hooks on foam dry flies to keep them from tipping over.
A listener asks me my preferences in fly-tying vise brands.
A listener asks about Orvis' commitment to diversity and climate activism and asks why we don't have a government relations office.
A suggestion from a listener for developing self-bailing waders
Why did I see a bunch of smallmouth bass jumping out of the water like crazy when there was not an insect hatch?
What can I do if I don't like a loop-to-loop connection on my leader?
How do I fish a bass popper in a fast-flowing river?
How can I get my crayfish pattern deeper?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | This is your host Tom Rosenbauer, and in today's interview, I'm going to be talking to |
| 0:16.0 | author David Coggins about his new book, The Optimist, and I put David on the spot |
| 0:23.6 | a little bit and give him a bit of good nature teasing, but anyone who's going to write |
| 0:29.3 | a book of essays about trout fishing is going to get a little teasing from me. |
| 0:33.5 | So anyway, I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.8 | I had fun doing it, and I think you'll learn something from it. |
| 0:41.3 | First we're going to answer some questions in the fly box, and if you have a question |
| 0:44.8 | for the fly box, you can send your question to podcast at orvis.com. |
| 0:49.9 | I'll take questions, comments, criticisms, suggestions, and tips maybe from you that I can pass |
| 0:58.0 | on to other listeners. |
| 1:00.7 | You can either just type your question, comment, criticism in the body of your email, or you |
| 1:07.8 | can attach a voice file from your phone if you want. |
| 1:11.9 | So without further ado, let's go to the fly box. |
| 1:16.3 | And the first one is from Logan, and it's an email. |
| 1:21.1 | I've been listening to the podcast for about a year now, and have really enjoyed all of |
| 1:25.9 | the advice I've gotten from you and your guests. |
| 1:28.8 | I recently moved to North Central Arkansas about 30 minutes from the White River. |
| 1:33.1 | I love getting out on the river when I can fish for the world famous brown trout that |
| 1:37.6 | we have here. |
| 1:38.6 | However, I live less than a mile from one of the big lakes here, and it's far more convenient |
| 1:42.8 | for me to get to the lake than it is to the river. |
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