Advanced Steelhead Tips with Damon Newpher

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

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast is on Great Lakes steelhead fishing, in particular the tributaries to Lake Erie. Damon Newpher, longtime Orvis-endorsed guide, gives us some advanced tips on some of the techniques he uses, which should work on all Great Lakes tribs. You’ll be surprised at some of the techniques he uses, including a dry dropper rig, nymph rigs, and of course his secrets for swinging flies. Also in the fly box this week we tackle questions like tips for fishing nymphs deep in weedy waters, drift boat anchors, how to cast a large fly on a relatively light rod, migrating trout, fishing near redds, weed guards on flies, cigarette smoke and trout, and the dreaded mop fly.

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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.
0:21.0	Hi and welcome to the Orbis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast is being recorded on
0:26.5	November 14th 2016 and later in the show we have a podcast about Great Lake Steelheading and
0:37.6	specifically sort of advanced tips and tricks. I thought they were advanced anyways on dealing with with the Great Lakes
0:46.7	tributaries with Damon Neufers so hope you enjoy that his tips and tricks by the
0:52.2	way will will probably work for any Great Lakes
0:55.8	tributaries under the right conditions so it may apply to you even if you never
1:00.5	plan on fishing the Great Lakes Trips.
1:03.6	But let's start with a flybox.
1:06.6	And we'll start this one out with an email.
1:12.0	This one is from Leem. I've been fishing about three years mainly for bass and
1:16.9	panfish using six weight absolutely love it. I'm also tying all my own flies
1:21.3	which is very fun and stretches my brain.
1:23.7	I've recently started diving into pike fishing.
1:25.9	I fish a lot for pike with spinning gear but I'm moving into pike on the fly.
1:29.9	I obtained a clear water eight weight which I love but I'm having trouble throwing six
1:34.8	to nine inch long pike flies I'm using a Rio pikeline sinking dip line and it
1:39.9	just seems to overpower my rod I have a lot of trouble getting any distance with
1:44.6	my cast especially if there is any wind. My question is should I switch to
1:49.2	floating line which may reduce the load on my rod or should I move to a 10-weight rod, which will help my
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