A New Way of Fishing a Dry Dropper, with Josh Miller

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Josh Miller [43:10] is a guide and has been a competitive angler and coach for years and he, like many young fly fishers, is an innovative angler who doesn't rely only on older methods of fly fishing but develops his own techniques based on how he wants his flies to drift. This is a geeky one with some rambling, but I think Josh has some thought-provoking ideas that will get many of us thinking.

In the Fly Box we have some interesting questions and tips from listeners, including:

What model of an older Orvis rod do you still fish?
Do you have any tips from casting a Spey rod from the beach?
The head on a fly I tied unraveled. Was it because I used Superglue and half hitches?
A tip from a listener on a product that will sharpen fly-tying scissors.
What conditions are best for fishing a bamboo rod?
Can I underline a fiberglass rod?
Can I cut the taper off an old WF5F line to make a lighter line for small streams?
How can I get my fly-tying thread to jump backward so I can tie in tricky materials?
What kind of setup do I need for catching snakeheads on a fly rod?
Why do smaller streams produce smaller trout and bigger rivers bigger fish?
What kind of PFD should I get for wearing under a fishing vest?
Why can't I find good brown and grizzly dry-fly hackle in size 12?
What do I need to do to switch between conventional nymphing and Euro nymphing?
Do most communities have fly-fishing clubs and how do I find them?
If I am going from a small stream to a lake, should I lengthen my butt section or lengthen my tippet?

Transcript

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0:00.0	I and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenberg. Hi and
0:15.0	my guest today for the interview is Josh Miller
0:19.0	is Josh is a young fishing guide from Pennsylvania who's also been a competitive angler on the US team and a coach and Josh has a very different way of fishing dry droppers.
0:36.9	It's using a Euro type rod and a long fine level
0:40.8	leader to fish dry droppers in there are lots of advantages to this method
0:46.0	particularly for close in fishing with a dry dropper and so Josh goes into his his way of rigging and fishing this way.
0:56.0	And he also talks a bit about floating the site.
0:58.6	You know, we talk a lot about a tight line or euro nymphing with these long limber rods but we don't talk as much about
1:06.8	dry fly fishing and dry dropper fishing and Josh has some pretty cool ways of doing it.
1:12.4	It gets a little geeky and a little
1:14.1	complicated and we ramble a bit, but it's very thought-provoking and I think if
1:19.6	you're interested in learning new ways of fishing with a fly rod.
1:26.0	I think you'll be very, very interested in this podcast.
1:31.4	Before we go to the flybox just an announcement I have a hosted trip at
1:37.3	three rivers ranch in Warm River Idaho and it's going to be September 28th to October 5th and there's a possibility of a two-day
1:49.0	extension so to be able to fish two extra days, of course, for an extra charge.
1:55.0	Three rivers is one of my favorite places in the world.
1:58.0	We fish the Henry's Fork and the South Fork of the Snake,
2:02.0	and the Teton River, and there are other rivers in the area and small streams to fish.
2:08.1	The guides are first-rate, very, very experienced guides.
2:13.5	The food there is spectacular.
2:16.3	The lodge is rustic, but extremely comfortable,
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