Catching Big Brook Trout, with Mark Melnyk

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

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all heard about going to remote camps in Labrador or Quebec for large brook trout, but less well known are the drive-in rivers of Ontario. Ontario has some amazing wilderness fishing for large brook trout that can be accessed without a float plane, and Mark Melnyk, co-host of the TV show The New Fly Fisher has explored many of them in the course of scouting locations for his show. The fantastic part of the story is that he hardly ever needs to resort to a subsurface fly and most of the action is on the surface with mice and other floating imitations. Listen in to Mark’s tips on where to go and how to catch these trophy fish on a budget. In the Fly Box this week, we have some interesting questions and also some great tips from listeners (if these tips get any better I’ll be out of a job!) I only have a 7 ½ foot rod and it’s a bit short for working larger rivers. Can I use my 9 foot 8-weight for trout? Is tungsten toxic? A great tip on how to keep split shot from sliding on the leader A great tip for keeping Thing-A-Ma-Bobbers from sliding on your leader Can I fish the same big dries I use on the headwaters of a creek further down in the watershed? Where can my friend go to get help with his tailing loop? Are knotted leaders better than knotless leaders? Is it better to use a nail knot on my line instead of a loop-to-loop connection? How do I keep some old treasured wet flies from degrading? Are tactical barbless hooks better than just mashing the barb on a standard hook? Is it more effective to use a hackled dry fly or a Comparadun-type during a mayfly hatch? A great tip from a listener in Ireland on a method of fishing soft hackles called The Escalator Method

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on March 27th, 2019.
0:15.0	And a little bit later on the podcast,
0:18.0	we're going to be talking to TV Fishing Star
0:22.0	of the New Fly Fisher, Mark Melnick and Mark's going to be
0:25.7	cluing us into some some pretty relatively unknown and exciting fishing for Pike and large brook trout in Ontario
0:36.6	trophy brook trout fishing that you can drive to so kind of cool and some some good tips there for Mark on catching large brook trout.
0:47.7	But before we do that, let's do some questions in the flybox.
0:52.4	And before we even do that I'm going to tell you how to
0:56.7	get your questions read at read or listen to on the air. You can send an email to podcast at Orvis.com or you can call 802
1:09.4	362 8800 and leave a voicemail message or you can record an audio file on your phone, save that
1:19.4	file and send it to that email. Which coincidentally is what our first caller
1:28.0	Miles from Newbury Port Mass did.
1:30.0	And I think you'll agree that the voice file came in nice and clear and it's something
1:38.1	I hope that a lot more of you will do because it sounds so much better than a cell phone and I can hear your questions a lot better.
1:45.0	Hi Tom, this is Miles Calling from New Report, Massachusetts.
1:50.0	I've been a long time Spin Fisherman.
1:52.0	I've had a fly rod for a number of years
1:54.3	probably haven't used it a whole lot. Recently though I've been fly fishing more and
2:00.0	more and I've gotten a lot better at it and that's where my question to you comes in and it's also actually a follow-up to another question that someone else asked a few weeks ago.
2:10.0	So I've got a 7.5 foot 5 weight and a 9 foot 8 weight. I use the 5 weight in fresh water a lot and I've gotten a lot better at casting lately
2:26.1	and it's the point now where when I try to make a cast in current I'm getting my
2:32.2	line out far enough so I'm having trouble getting a good dead drift.
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