Advanced Steelhead Tips with Chuck Hawkins (fixed)

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

🗓️ 11 December 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview Chuck Hawkins, one of the most experienced Great Lakes steelhead guides, who also travels the world in search of trout and other species when he’s not guiding steelheaders. As usual when talking to such an experienced guide, I discovered many cool tips and tricks I had never thought of. I’m sure you’ll find this podcast educational, whether you fish for steelhead in the Great Lakes or on the West Coast—or even if you fish for non-migratory trout with nymphs and streamers. Lots of these techniques translate well. In the Fly Box, we answer questions on deeply-hooked trout, straightening tippets, casting on grass, sight-fishing for trout, avoiding crowds, bite tippets for pike and pickerel, fishing in the middle of the day, and other little tidbits.

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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 fly fishing
0:15.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:21.3	Hi and welcome to the Orbis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on
0:26.4	December 9th 2016 and got an interview a little bit later on the show with Paul Hawkins with some pretty educational stuff about targeting Steelhead in the Great Lakes and specifically in Lake Michigan.
0:44.0	So I think you'll learn some stuff.
0:48.2	In the interview, I certainly did, but let's go on to the flybox and let's start with an email from Nick Scripps.
0:58.0	Hey Tom, Nick from Grand Rapids, Michigan, love the podcast. I work as a Fisheries Tech half the year and your podcast is crucial for getting through my indoor job the other half of the year.
1:10.0	I was wondering if you could offer any tips on targeting fish in culverts this June while scouting field sites I happened upon a culvert connecting two boggy stretches of a local trout stream.
1:20.0	There were lots of nice brookies holding just below the culvert and I was able to catch a couple eight to nine inches.
1:25.7	However, one time while peeking over the grass, a car drove by and a huge trout bolted out from inside.
1:32.1	I came back a couple times and tried drifting dries,
1:35.0	back from the upstream side and listening for a strike but with no luck.
1:39.0	Unfortunately, before I had too many tries to experiment, my coworker snuck over there and caught it with a crawler.
1:45.5	It was a 14 inch football of a brookie.
1:49.3	Do you have any advice for this kind of thing besides keeping my lips tight. I already learned that once he says.
1:57.3	Yeah Nick probably a dryfly is the is the hard way to try to get a fish out of a culvert because it's going to
2:06.1	drag almost immediately and what I would do is I would try particularly for
2:11.5	Brook trout a small wet fly or a soft tackle or even a really
2:16.4	tiny streamer like a size 12 and let it drift down inside the culvert and then either
2:22.2	hang it there and twitch it a little bit or
2:24.7	strip it back. I mean you probably don't know exactly where the fish is in the culvert so I would
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