Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This is Tom Rosenbauer and today I have very special guest.

Jim La Page who is the VP of Rodentackel for Orvis and he's the man who is ultimately behind all the cool product development and the way

Rodden Tackle works and my boss and my hunting buddy and fishing buddy.

We've worked together for many years so Jim's a real busy guy but he's got a ton of knowledge so we're very lucky to have him here today. We won't be able to get him all the time. Too bad. I know you probably

would rather hear somebody other than me, but we got Jim today. So I thought we

would take advantage of Jim's knowledge to talk about floating flylines.

And specifically, floating fly lines for trout.

80% of the fly fishing market is trout fishing and probably 90% of that is done with floating

lines but there are a lot of different options out there for floating lines.

People are confused.

And so I thought Jim could help us stay

in choosing a floating line for trout.

So Jim, I'll do my very best.

Thank you.

Thanks for the introduction. I think in addition to what you said I think 80% of people use just a wait forward so it'd be good to talk a little bit about the other types of

fly lines that are used for trout besides just a standard weight forward fly line.

Right.

So why?

Let's start out why do most people use a weight forward line?

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