Backcast Episode: Planning your Strategy on the River, with Devin Olsen

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

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview Devin Olsen, who you may know about from competitive fly fishing, but we’re not going to talk about competition. Devin walks us through what to look for when you first approach a stream and how to come up with a strategy for a day of fishing. His new book Tactical Fly Fishing is now available but we get a sneak peak on what you’ll learn from his book. In the Fly Box this week, we talk about: Moving kids from a spinning rod to a switch rod How to deal with muddy and bloody feathers from a duck-hunting friend How to display fly rods in your house If my jig hooks bend when I get stuck in a snag, should I just bend them back and re-use them? If a 5-weight is considered an all-around rod in graphite, is it the same for fiberglass rods? What is the difference between hen necks and hen capes? A great suggestion for carrying a landing net on a plane Do catastrophic floods ruin trout fishing and the insect life? What length and line size do you recommend for both smallmouth bass and steelhead? Can I catch catfish with a fly rod? How should I organize my bonefish fly boxes? Which grain weight in the Depth Charge lines is best for surf fishing?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast.
0:10.0	This podcast is being recorded on March 11th, 2019.
0:16.3	And a little bit later in the podcast,
0:18.6	I'm gonna be interviewing Devon Olson,
0:21.3	who is a well-known competitive angler but we're not going to talk
0:25.4	about competitive angling today we're going to talk about just about what do you
0:30.1	do when you get to the river how do you decide what fly to fish how do you do when you get to the river? How do you decide what fly to fish? How do you decide
0:35.3	where to fish? Rather than just doing the same thing over and over again, how do you approach the situation? And I get that question a lot in
0:47.4	in podcast questions. So I think it'll be good to hear Devon's answers because they're probably going to differ from what I might tell you and it's great to have another opinion.
0:59.0	So I hope you'll stay listening after the flybox to my interview with Devon Olson.
1:07.1	But speaking of the flybox, oh before we speak of the flybox, let me tell you how you can send in questions. You can either email
1:16.7	them to me at podcast at Orvus.com, questions and suggestions and comments or you can leave a phone message at 802
1:27.8	362 8800. All right so now let's go to the fly box. And we will start with an email
1:38.9	this week. This one's from Alex. Hi, my name is Alex and I'm a high schooler from Michigan. I have a ones from
1:43.6	Alex. Hi my name is Alex and I'm a high schooler from Michigan. I have a question regarding
1:46.1	specific rods and flyline types. I live in an area that holds good numbers of
1:52.0	both small mouth bass and steelhead. I fish for both
1:54.6	regularly but I am looking to buy a fly rod that could be used for both
1:58.6	species. Do you have any suggestions that might work in this case? I have gotten some recommendations about using an
2:05.0	eight weight for both but was wondering about rod length and or other weights
2:10.1	that might also work. Along with this I was wondering if you could
2:13.7	recommend floating or sinking line when targeting both small mouth and
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