Be Prepared for Medical Emergencies When Fly Fishing, with Mike Tayloe

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Sports, Wilderness, Education, How To

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Mike Tayloe [33:07], who is a fishing guide, EMT, and wilderness medicine trainer. Tayloe (he prefers this to Mike) has trained many Orvis-endorsed guides and lodges on emergencies that you'll encounter on the water. Basically, they're the same emergencies you'll find at home but without the ability to get a rescue squad or ambulance quickly. The bad news is that we can't give you training on wilderness medicine on a podcast. The good news is that Tayloe will tell us how to get training for these emergencies (an online course is not the recommended way to go) and how to put together your own first aid kit so that you are prepared to deal with common medical problems. He goes into great detail on what to include in your kit, and recommends places to either get a complete pre-made kit or where to buy the right components—and the best course is not to buy a cheap kit in a big box store. This podcast, with proper training and a good kit, could save your life or that of a fishing buddy.

In the Fly Box this week, we have a number of questions that may answer questions you have had, such as:

When should I use split shot as an "in-line" rig as opposed to the drop shot method?
Is it better to use fewer big split shot or a number of smaller ones?
What can I do with egg yarn other than make egg flies?
Mayfly nymphs look flat. Why don't we use more flies with a flattened shape?
Should I cast my streamers upstream, across-stream, or quartering down and swinging?
Where should I look for striped bass along a marshy shoreline?
How important is color on emerger flies. Most of the patterns I see imitate the color of the duns but shouldn't we be more concerned with the color of the nymph?
Why are high-end fly rods more expensive than high-end conventional rods?
When tying flies, should I tie every size in the right range or should I skip sizes?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:13.1	This is your host Tom Rosebauer.
0:14.8	And my guest this week is Mike Taylor, or Taylor, as he prefers to be called. He likes to be called by his last name.
0:24.2	And Taylor is an expert in wilderness medicine. He's also been a guide and an EMT. But Taylor has
0:33.7	instructed many, many, many, many Orsend dors guides in wilderness medicine and dealing with emergencies.
0:41.3	And I've gotten some, gotten some requests before to do something on, you know,
0:46.1	what do you do in case of emergency when you're on a fly fishing trip?
0:50.0	And, um, there's good news and there's bad news.
0:52.4	The bad news is that, um, we're not going to be able to give
0:56.1	you a course on wilderness medicine or emergency procedures for a fly fishing trip. That would be,
1:04.3	it wouldn't be good for you and it would probably be unethical. So what Talo is going to do is going to tell us how to learn.
1:14.5	You've got to get some training first. He's going to tell you the best places to get this kind
1:19.5	of training and also how to put together your own first aid kit. You can either buy a pre-packaged
1:27.0	one as I did or you can make your own,
1:30.9	but it's an essential thing to have. And so he's going to go through the various parts that
1:36.9	you're going to need in that kit. But first of all, you need to get some training and Mike will
1:42.8	tell us all how we can get the proper training.
1:47.4	Basically, the same kind of emergencies that you have on a fly fishing trip are going to be similar to what you have at home,
1:54.6	except you're not going to be able to dial 911 and have a rescue squad or an ambulance there in a few minutes.
2:01.7	Anyway, I think it's a valuable thing.
2:05.3	I certainly learned a lot, and personally, I'm not, at least until this podcast,
2:11.8	I wasn't well prepared to deal with those kind of things when I'm off alone or with a friend
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