An All Fly-Box Episode
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week I have no guest interview but a ton of questions waiting in the podcast mailbox so I did an all-Fly Box podcast to catch up on questions. By popular demand, I've started to recommend some books on the podcast. This week I recommend my three favorite books on trout biology and natural history.
In the long Fly Box this week, we have these great questions and tips from listeners:
A tip on putting a four-piece rod together
A tip on where to park your rod when landing a fish
Can I use my 9-foot, 5-weight rod for saltwater fishing in the Bay area?
Do you think we are in danger of interfering with the natural spread of species, for instance by removing musky from lakes that were not there historically but have spread there naturally?
Why do I keep breaking off large trout on a 3X tippet?
A very generous offer from a listener to pay for a guide trip for a young listener (from a past show) who has taken 60 trips for trout and has not caught one yet.
Should I use a sinking or intermediate line for stripers in the Bay area?
Are there any casting techniques I should practice before throwing bigger flies in salt water?
A tip from a listener (after getting a tip from me) on the proper way to insert Orvis studs in wading boots.
A great tip from a listener on using yellow sticky pads to keep coiled leaders in place.
While stripping in my coiled line gets tangled. How can I fix that?
How long do you use a fly before changing? And when do you decide to move?
Do you believe "Right to Roam" laws like they have in Scotland would be beneficial to Americans?
How do you properly de-barb a hook?
What midge patterns should I use in Wisconsin?
What would a well-rounded fly rod quiver for the eastern United States look like?
I keep bumping my rod guides when taking apart my rod. How can I fix that, and how can I fix a loose guide?
A caller letting me know that a co-host on one of our live events mis-spoke about how to assemble a rod.
I can catch fish on a Parachute Adams and swung wet flies in a small stream but can't catch them on nymphs. What am I doing wrong?
A listener who fixed a problem with breaking 4X tippet tied to a size 6 hook makes a suggestion on some great products.
I am curious to buy a bamboo or fiberglass rod. Where should I start?
What fly-fishing magazines does Tom read?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and I don't have a guest this week. |
| 0:15.2 | I've been on vacation and a lot of other people are on vacation and I had some podcasts |
| 0:20.4 | lined up and things came up with people's travel plans and I got some good ones come |
| 0:27.1 | in the summer. I promise some really good interviews that I'm excited about but I don't |
| 0:31.2 | have one this week. |
| 0:32.9 | And there have been a lot of questions building up in the in the fly box while I've been gone. |
| 0:39.1 | So I thought I would do just a long fly box today with lots of questions. |
| 0:45.7 | I haven't worked my way all the way through them. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm not going to answer all of them but I pick the ones that I think by giving you an |
| 0:56.7 | answer I'll help other people. |
| 0:59.1 | So I pick the ones that I think will be most valuable to most of the listeners. |
| 1:08.1 | And another thing I'm going to do this week is that I keep getting requests for talking |
| 1:14.7 | about some of my favorite books, books that I read or I use as references in my own search |
| 1:23.5 | for knowledge and in some of my writing and some of my research. |
| 1:28.8 | So I thought this week I would start with three books that I would recommend on trout |
| 1:37.2 | and their natural history and their behavior and their life history. |
| 1:42.1 | The three books that I really use as references frequently. |
| 1:47.0 | Now there are a lot of books out there on fish vision and fish senses and some of them |
| 1:54.3 | are okay and some of them I think are downright wrong and erroneous. |
| 2:01.3 | But these are the three books that I think are really vetted written by scientists and |
| 2:09.9 | people that really know the aquatic world. |
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