Advanced Stillwater Techniques, with Phil Rowley

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

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

I frequently get questions about Stillwater trout fishing, and although I love it I am not very good at it. So I enlisted one of the best Stillwater teachers I know, Phil Rowley, and asked him to discuss something more advanced that relates to Stillwater trout fishing. The result is a very detailed discussion of fishing nymphs, especially midge imitations, on a very long leader. With this technique you can fish surprisingly deep—if you are patient! In the Fly Box this week we have the following questions: Is there any value in underlining a fly rod? How do I get foul odors out of my waders? How do I target stripers and smallmouth when the water is over 70 degrees and trout are also present? What is your go-to technique in a trout stream if you don’t see anything feeding? If you could only select one sequence, would you pick odd or even sizes of fly rods? My lower back is killing me after a long day of fishing. What can I do to alleviate this problem? How do I approach a stretch of river with deep pools and virtually no current? How can I teach my friends to recognize a strike to a nymph? Is it safe to bring the line/leader connection inside my rod guides? I am going to the Yellowstone area. Is it worth it to hire a guide?

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0:00.0	Hi and a little bit later in the show
0:07.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast
0:11.0	this is your host Tom Rosenberg and a little bit later in the show we're
0:15.3	going to be talking for quite a long time with my friend Phil Rowley about Stillwater
0:22.4	Trout and we've done a podcast with Phil on
0:26.3	basic Still Water Trouting way back when we first started the the podcast and I get a
0:31.4	lot of questions not a lot of but I get a fair number of questions about still water trout fishing.
0:36.0	I'm a lousy still water trout fishermen.
0:38.0	So I need an expert to help me and Phil and I are going to talk about or Phil is going to talk about
0:46.8	I'm just going to ask questions about using really long leaders and subsurface flies, nymphs especially for targeting
0:56.5	trout in still water up to 16 to 20 feet deep without using an indicator or a
1:00.9	sinking line. So it's pretty interesting technique. It's pretty
1:04.9	advanced but very deadly and Phil goes in a great detail. So stay tuned and
1:11.4	listen for that. But before that, let's answer some questions on the flybox.
1:16.4	And if you want to ask some questions, you can send an email question to podcast at Orvis.com. You can either send me a text
1:28.6	question in your email or you can attach a voice file and if I decide to answer it I'll read it on the air.
1:37.5	You can also follow me on Instagram if you want at Rosenbauer T. So anyway let's without further ado go to the flybox and we
1:50.8	will start with an email this week.
1:54.0	I apologize. This is from Steve.
1:58.0	I apologize if this is a long one but I'll try my best to keep it short.
2:02.0	I have flyfish my whole life, not seriously,
2:04.5	but my family would usually go to southern Colorado
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